Supply chain management  

AubynTech knows a lot about supply chain management, ERP, capacity requirement planning, product configuration, MRP, and business reengineering issues.

AubynTech's supply chain management and product configuration team shall tune your company up to nowadays unpredictable markets. We have gone a long way since the day MRP (Material Requirement Planning) was introduced, as a new mechanism to calculate what and when materials were needed and in what optimal quantities. At that time ERP and product configuration systems were not even conceived.

Long range planning
Capacity requirement planning
Master scheduling
Rough cut capacity requirement planning
Detailed capacity requirement planning
Shop floor control

Supply chain management is greatly supported by performing all these activities in a proper way.

Supply chain management is the final evolution: by linking an ERP powerful features such as finance, forecasting, sales order analysis, MRP programs, and a product configuration to proper capacity requirement planning tools, the whole value chain of operations can be optimized, costs and delivery time can be reduced.

Supply chain management is to face with markets. Market unpredictability poses new challenges:

High stress placed upon product configuration
Disruption of supply
Difficult capacity requirement planning

Most of ERP systems and product configuration modules have been optimized to forecast demand, not supply issues. The challenge for supply chain management consultants is to bridge the gap between demand management and supply chain management.

AubynTech's supply chain management consultants have to manage risks in implementing an ERP-related supply chain management architecture. Supply chain risks come in different forms:

Huge financial risks, stemming out of mismanaged supply chain systems
Chaos risks, coming from ERP complexity and market uncertainty
Change management risks, hindering change process
Decision risks, affecting MRPII and capacity requirement planning
Market risks, impacting upon market opportunities (can your product configuration transform challenges posed by the customers into business opportunities?)
Competence risk, affecting general efficiency

Supply chain management, with MRP and product configuration modules, offers following advantages:

High system integration
Decision sharing (as for example Vendor Management Inventory)
B2B (Business-to-business framework)
IPE (Inter-enterprise process engineering) architecture
Resource sharing