Supply Chain Consulting

In a world of customer rapidly increasing demand for velocity and flexibility of the delivery your supply chain needs to adjust or your competitors will take over your place.

Our approach

We help you to align the processes such as strategic procurement, production planning, material planning & ordering, physical transportation of goods and warehousing and internal logistics into a balanced supply chain capable to meet demands of your customer.

We us Lean Six Sigma to remove inefficiency from your processes.

Key improvement areas

• Production planning
• Material planning and ordering
• Material receiving
• Material flow
• Warehousing
• Production flow
• Packaging
• Dispatch
• Physical transportation
• Barcodes, RFID
• Inventory
• Master data
• KPIs and reporting
• Autonomous warehouse and transport systems
• In-house vs. Outsourcing

Procurement Consulting

Procurement is more than just buying. There are many ways to get your supplies delivered as well as what value it brings to your company.

Our approach

We help you translate your company strategy into healthy and sustainable procurement strategy and set up procurement organisation that maximizes value your suppliers can bring. We will define optimum processes to maximize ROI of your procurement department so that your team doesn‘t waste resources and focus on the real added value.

Key focus areas

• Current status analysis
• Opportunities assessment
• Planning and managing the cost improvement initiatives
• Staff assessment, organisation and development
• Category strategies
• Procure-to-Pay
• Methods and tools
• KPIs and reporting
• Market research
• Guidance in the RFPs

Digitization & Industry 4.0

You may call it in various ways, e.g. Digitization or Industry 4.0. Important is however to utilize computers, cloud or internet of things (sensors connected to a cloud) to reduce errors, manual work or foresee breakdown.

Our approach

We look at your processes to see where you do unnecessary manual work that can be done by systems. Industry 4.0 is not about installing robots or machines, the focus is on solutions that help collect the data from machines and analyse them or that avoid human intervention in the processes that do not require problem solving or assessment.

Typical scenarios

• Production equipment, vehicles, warehouse equipment
• ERP, specialized software, portable devices, data analytics
• Sensors, RFID, barcodes
• Automatize repeated processes, remove waste
• Automated document creation – e.g. delivery notes, invoices, etiquette’s
• Automated processes – e.g. stock-out, ordering, production orders
• Connecting separate internal systems or connecting with 3rd parties via EDI
• Eliminate printing or manual entry of data, that is already available in some system within your company

Analytics and Reporting

Understanding your own data is essential for the success of your company. We‘ll help you chose the right tools, set up key reports and teach your team members to use them.

Our approach

Stren Tech’s deep knowledge of the academic environment, National supercomputing center, functional expertise and project management skills brings you superior service combined with the high performance computing and data analytics capabilities.

Typical scenarios

• Advertising analytics (Descriptive, Predictive, Discovery, Prescriptive Analytics)
• Smart city analytics and functional consulting
• Industry specific analytics (e.g. energy, health care, automotive)
• Supply Chain analytics and functional consulting
• Business analytics
• Data visualisation