Tag: procurement

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….

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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….

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Tariff Compensation

Focus On What You Can Control

Market disruption and policy changes can feel paralyzing, but we urge our client partners to focus on what is within their control to maximize operational plan attainment, resilience, and sustainability. Kormac helps clients swiftly adapt to changing conditions. We’re pleased to share this quick guide to cost management and tariff compensation strategies….

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Strategic Sourcing

Category Management

We recently partnered with a leading industrial components provider to reduce costs by developing and institutionalizing a rigorous Strategic Sourcing process. In the first spend category, we immediately revealed a 13% to 16% cost reduction opportunity. We’ll soon address major spend categories representing 40% of our client’s annual COGS….

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Supplier Diversification

Global Supply Chain

From China+1 to “friendshoring,” supplier diversification is hot. Tariff talk and geopolitical tensions are prompting plans for greater geographic supply diversification. We enjoy helping our client partners build secure, flexible, and adaptable supply chains suited for our increasingly complex global business environment….

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Supplier Development

Supplier Development Program (SDP)

Many of our client partners are turning to their supply base for collaborative performance improvements. Formalizing a Supplier Development Program can transform transactional relationships into strategic partnerships delivering outsized mutual benefit….

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Cost Management

Rebalancing the margin tug-of-war

As the labor and supply cost rollercoaster continues, we are working with several clients to identify new management levers. Among them: Increasing the frequency of cost reviews to ensure faster customer price adjustments and/or tying customer pricing to component market indices Executing Value Analysis and Value Engineering efforts to drive...

Medical Device: Supply Chain Complexity & Agility

Addressed $11.1 MM+ overage in raw material components and $5.6 MM+ overage in finished goods inventory

Supply chains have proven a compelling scapegoat, but many of the recent challenges reveal underlying dysfunction that preceded the pandemic. For one medical device manufacturer, supply chain (SC) complexity was creating costly overages in materials and finished inventory. Their build-to-order SC process optimized part and component costs, but did so...