North East Quality Council (NEQC) | Lean Supply Chain Collaboration / Optimizing Customer-Supplier Cash Flow

Speed = Competitiveness in supply chain today. Learn how to speed up the flow of information, materials, and cash between operations and businesses in the supply chain.

Questions addressed:

For customers, how can you:

Improve material availability, productivity of procurement and AP management, cash flow, vendor’s customer service cost, and vendor commitments.

Reduce vendor lead-times, AP and vendor AR, reduce vendor inventory and risk of obsolescence.

For suppliers, how can you:

Increase revenues.

Improve customer service, productivity of sales/customer service and AR management, AR and cash flow.

Reduce lead-time, customer’s inventory and risk of obsolescence, and customer’s purchasing cost.

For manufacturing and/or distribution operations, how can you:

Improve material availability, inventory turns and productivity.

Reduce inventory space, work in process, and setup-time.

Increase production throughput, planning and productivity, and reduce production space.

For information system users, how can you:
Accelerate the information flow from customers to production and suppliers, and give:

Customer service more flexibility and visibility

Production personnel a simple, flexible, and effective planning tool,

Suppliers more up-to-date material demand information and flexibility to meet requirements.

How can you enable stakeholders in your supply chain to see information in a unified manner and collaborate in the decision process, and make this information globally accessible while lowering costs.

Presenter:

Andy Novotny is Managing Partner of Interpro Group LLC, which provides Lean Supply Chain solutions to manufacturing and distribution businesses, including consulting, training, and supporting management systems. Mr. Novotny has over 20 years of experience in manufacturing. He has been consulting with industrial, manufacturing, and distribution businesses since 1996. Prior to his consulting carrier, he has held operations management positions in North America and Europe and he has developed and implemented Lean Supply Chain Collaboration programs since 1989. He has a background in industrial manufacturing and electronics engineering from a European technical institute. Mr. Novotny is active in a variety of industry associations and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) and the Turnaround Management Association (TMA).

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