Tag: demand planning

What type of organization requires a highly flexible replenishment model? - Intermittent or "long tail" demand across a wide SKU base - Sporadic, unstable, or highly variable order patterns - Non-repeating or project based demand cycles - Extensive assortments of slow-moving or specialized SKUs Opportunity Indicators: low inventory turns, poor OTIF, stockouts, delays, and lost sales

Flexible Replenishment Models

For Unpredictable Demand Across Wide SKU Base

Flexible replenishment models—leveraging historical data, real-time analytics, and demand variability—enable companies to maintain service levels without tying up working capital in excess inventory. We help our client partners build tailored, data-driven replenishment processes that boost both efficiency and customer satisfaction….

Enhanced demand management, supply chain, and collaboration

Category Management

Reducing Annualized Material Costs

Kormac recently partnered with a global distributor of engineered components to address inefficiencies across its supply chain. We jointly achieved 20% reduction in annualized material costs, 18% reduction in working capital inventory, and 50% improvement in customer fill rate….

SIOP Transformation Delivering life-saving safety equipment "The Kormac Group helped us transform our SIOP process from a report out of information to a key business enabler that drives business initiatives throughout the organization with a Continuous Improvement mindset." -Global Supply Chain Director, Industrial Safety Products Manufacturer

SIOP Transformation

Delivering life-saving safety equipment

A leading manufacturer of industrial safety equipment turned to Kormac for assistance in improving forecast accuracy, demand/supply alignment, inventory turns, and product delivery performance….

Supply/Demand Planning SIOP: Advanced Planning Delivers Agility and Responsiveness Risk Avoidance & Opportunity Conversion Decisions Months 0-3: Frozen or Fixed Horizon; Response is typically overtime or expecting. Variability +/- 3% Months 3-6: Capacity Adjust Horizon; Labor and supply chain alignment. Variability +/- 8% Months 6-9: Project Horizon; Professionals, complex Kaizen solutions, CAPEX. Variability +/- 12% Months 9-12: Strategic Horizon; Footprint rationalization, CAPEX, campaigns. Variability +/- 15%

Supply / Demand Planning

SIOP: Advanced Planning Delivers Agility and Responsiveness

Is your organization suffering from SIOP myopia? In our client assessments, we find that 90% of supply/demand discussion focuses on the near-term, neglecting longer term risks and opportunities. Optimized SIOP extends the horizon of forecast accuracy to increase agility and avoid looming constraints. Kormac’s supply chain convergence approach powers an...
Executive Opportunity Seeking S&OP Leader Opportunity: Associate Director, Sales & Operations Planning, Covance by Labcorp Build and implement a world-class Sales & Operations Planning process across the enterprise to improve customer satisfaction, profitability, inventory turns, lead times, quality and resource planning. [Covance by Labcorp logo appears on the bottom of the image]

Executive Opportunity

Seeking S&OP Leader

Calling all world-class S&OP executives! Covance by Labcorp, a leading global life sciences company and friend of The Kormac Group, is seeking candidates for an Associate Director of Sales & Operations Planning role.

Contact Kormac at +1.704.266.3555 for more information…