The Supply Chain is systematically at the heart of the strategic decisions taken by all industrial, retailing or service companies.
An efficient Supply Chain meets the challenges linked to globalisation, to market and prices volatility, to the demands for profitability, to information and communication technologies and to regulatory demands.
At the heart of marketing, purchasing, production and distribution, the Supply Chain is a company performance lever, facilitating gains in terms of competitiveness and permitting the development of new services.
Our perimeter of intervention covers every component within the Supply Chain:
1. Performance of organisations and processes: adapting organisations to market requirements and to the reality of the supply chain business
- Design and establishment of a target organisation
- Optimisation of processes
2. Operational strategy: transforming the Supply Chain and synchronising it with the corporate strategy
- Definition of the service offer
- Logistics / Distribution master plan
- Logistics network strategy
- Definition of the supply policy
3. Supply Chain Planning: piloting decision-taking at every level of the company
- Deployment of lean management
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
- Maintenance of operational conditions (MCO)
- Establishment of the 5S method …
4. Logistic and industrial performance: making logistics a pillar in the value stream and optimising processes sustainably
- Implementation of collaborative processes
- Optimised stock management
- Design of logistics warehouses
- Reduction of transport costs
- Assistance with the selection of information systems (TMS, WMS, …) and logistics providers …
Headlink Partners also works with its clients on innovative supply chain subjects:
Flexible Supply Chain
- Modelling of decision-making processes
- Management chart: defining reporting and relevant prediction indicators
- Flexibility: taking strategic or operational decisions very quickly
Sustainability in the urban environment
- Urban logistics: lastingly stimulating economic and urban dynamics
- Sustainable logistics: regulating and pooling offers and requests
A few examples of missions
> Operational strategy
Retailing: reworking of the logistics services offer
Specialist retailing: reworking of the logistics master plan
> Supply Chain Planning
Car industry: diagnosis and optimisation of the Supply Chain
Short series industry: design and establishment of production planning processes and IS
> Industrial performance
Defence: establishment and accompaniment of a Lean Manufacturing process based on VSM (Value Stream Mapping)
Rail transport: reduction of immobilisation times for rolling stock maintenance
> Logistics performance
Logistics provider: analysis and rationalisation of the WMS (Warehouse Management System) portfolio
> Energy: steering of logistics performance in operational support, benchmark logistics for specific transport services