Experts in Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Strategy

This module has two aims: better customer value and more profit. One important activity is to differentiate your supply chain based on product-market combinations (PMCs). We create the optimal balance between cash, cost and service for each PMC. This ultimately enables us to develop a company-specific blueprint that outlines how information, goods and money can flow through your supply chain as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Result: you eliminate unnecessary costs and can offer the highest possible customer value per PMC.

Tijmen Muijs

Supply Chain Strategy Consultant

+316 51 95 65 62

It is only possible to seize opportunities when the entire supply chain, both internally and externally, is focused on delivering on promises to customers.

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Tijmen Muijs

Data Analytics & KPI’s

We conduct data analysis to identify the optimal balance between cash, cost and service for each product-market combination (PMC). First of all, in close consultation with you, we decide which data is required. Depending on which system you work with, we either conduct the analysis internally or utilize BLMC’s tools and technology. Following the analysis, we meet with you to discuss which KPIs are relevant for each supply chain. We then set and implement measurable KPI targets.

Result: you can make sound decisions within the supply chain triangle of service, cost and cash based on quantitative analysis.

Niek Bloemendaal

Supply Chain Data-Analysis Consultant

+316 51 15 25 88

From emotional thinking to rational thinking. Supply chain data analysis removes the emotion from the discussion and provides real insight as the basis for making rational decisions.

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Niek Bloemendaal

Supply Chain Processes

Besides the existing department-driven (vertical) processes, customer-driven (horizontal) processes are needed in order to execute the supply chain strategy for each PMC. The supply chain processes must clearly reflect the choices you have made in your supply chain strategy. For example, a process aimed at generating responsiveness has a very different setup from one that is intended to reduce costs. We use special process analysis techniques to define these supply chain processes and link them to your strategic objectives.

Result: conflicting interests in the supply chain are replaced by synergy and a shared goal: optimal customer service.

Edward Heijnen

Supply Chain Process Consultant

+316 43 35 23 97

Who is responsible for what? If that’s not clear, the supply chain processes won’t work and people will soon point the finger at one another saying they assumed someone else would do it.

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Edward Heijnen

Roles & Responsibilities

This part of the project is focused on the employees who form part of the supply chain processes. We utilize the well-known RASCI method, derived from the horizontal processes, to define the roles and responsibilities of each member of the team. This ensures close alignment and improves collaboration between the employees by providing transparency in terms of each individual’s added value.

Result: this module provides a clear overview of the supply chain processes, making them easy to manage and execute.

Michel van Buren

Director of BLMC Supply Chain Optimization

+316 18 81 30 50

“I’m responsible for BLMC’s supply chain optimization business unit and I really love it. Supply chain management has been called the ‘new management science’ and I wholeheartedly agree. Supply chain management entails strategy, data, KPIs, processes, systems, human behaviour… you name it. I enjoy the challenge of all that complexity. But for me, the most important thing of all is that organizations that implement supply chain management as an improvement technique really do achieve a sustainable competitive edge, and ultimately that’s what it’s all about. After all, when it comes to ‘survival of the fittest’, it’s not the strongest but the smartest who survives.”

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Michel van Buren

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

S&OP is the backbone of every supply chain; it links the (expected) level of customer demand with the operational processes aimed at meeting that demand. S&OP not only requires good ICT support, but also depends on people’s willingness to get together and share information with one another on a regular basis – to discuss escalations, and to explore and find ways to resolve any apparent conflicts of interest in the supply chain. At BLMC, we have developed our own unique method for optimizing and implementing S&OP. In the more mature phases of S&OP, it can be necessary to utilize specialized tooling by Solventure, a company which is co-owned by BLMC. When implementing the chosen solution, we pay an above-average amount of attention to the human factor which leads to an excellent S&OP process.

Result: close alignment between supply and demand, generating more profit and greater customer satisfaction at lower costs.

Hans van de Sande

Supply Chain S&OP Consultant

+316 53 39 10 34

The power of S&OP is extraordinary. Good S&OP results in better service, lower costs and a better cash position, such as by reducing inventory.

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Hans van de Sande

Leadership & Behaviour

To ensure successful implementation of supply chain management, whether within or between organizations, it is very important that all the professionals involved collaborate well with one another. That might sound obvious in theory, but it is far from easy in practice. There can be conflicting interests within the supply chain, such as between Purchasing, Logistics, Sales, Production and Planning internally, or between suppliers and customers externally. Creating close alignment calls for more than just analysis and practical execution. At BLMC, our supply chain specialists receive ongoing training in behavioural psychology and change management. At every step of your supply chain optimization process, they pay just as much attention to the human factor as they do to the technical and operational factors.

Result: you are assured of sustainable collaboration between all the professionals involved in the chain as the basis for supply chain success.

Michel van Buren

Director of BLMC Supply Chain Optimization

+316 18 81 30 50

Although they may not be aware of it, the behaviour of the leaders in the supply chain is often at the heart of an ill-functioning supply chain. And vice versa.

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Michel van Buren

ICT

Supply chain management is impossible without information & communication technology (ICT) support. That support can range from the use of various stand-alone applications such as Excel for processing data and structuring the S&OP process, to complete ERP systems integrated with specialized and advanced S&OP tooling such as by Solventure. Your organization’s ICT landscape must be aligned with your company’s level of supply chain maturity and with your strategic ambitions. In the BLMC Supply Chain Scan, we assess your ICT landscape and make recommendations.

Result: the improvements are anchored in your organization.

Niek Bloemendaal

Supply Chain Data-Analysis Consultant

+316 51 15 25 88

From emotional thinking to rational thinking. Supply chain data analysis removes the emotion from the discussion and provides real insight as the basis for making rational decisions.

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Niek Bloemendaal

Supply chain monitoring

The aim is to become a ‘learning organization’ that is able to adapt to market developments and changing customer needs. Therefore, an optimization project is not complete until you have determined how you can continue to measure your performance and how you can take corrective action quickly if necessary. Supply chain management is a way of working based on a shared, open view and the agility to respond to changing circumstances. Staying continually alert to such changes enables you to stay ahead of the competition.

Result: Thanks to the Monitor, your organization can continuously adapt to the changing market and maintain its competitive edge.

Niek Bloemendaal

Supply Chain Data-Analysis Consultant

+316 51 15 25 88

From emotional thinking to rational thinking. Supply chain data analysis removes the emotion from the discussion and provides real insight as the basis for making rational decisions.

The expertise of
Niek Bloemendaal