Supply Chain
Improving your business efficiency and cost effectiveness through your supply chain is key to business success. Science City York can help you to streamline your purchasing processes, appraise your suppliers, help with internal reviews, and assist in creating a marketing plan.
Whether your organisation is a new business start-up or you have been trading for some time, Science City York’s Supply Chain Business Promoter can provide real practical advice to help your business achieve its true potential.
Supply Chain development is recognised as key to developing a competitive edge in the global marketplace. The principles of supply chain management can be applied to all organisations, with significant benefits to improve your business performance. The key to effective Supply Chain Development lies in positioning the customer at the heart of the process of supply chain planning.
Supply Chain improvement can help you: -
- Increase in your competitiveness and growth prospects
- Reduce supply costs and money tied up in procurement
- Improve profitability with increased return on assets
- Increase throughput and improve response times
- Create better working relationships
Science City York’s Supply Chain Development programme promotes the development of supply chain and supply linkages between York and North Yorkshire’s companies and their customers and suppliers.
Science City York is able to offer supply chain advice as a part of its confidential Business Support Service to companies in the science and technology sectors.
If you are looking for support and advice on any Supply Chain issues please contact the Science City York team.
What is a supply chain?
A supply chain is the linked network of customers and suppliers with which your company or organisation does business.
Science City York can help you with any aspect of the supply chain from reviewing your suppliers and purchasing agreements, through internal process reviews, and finally help with marketing strategy and knowing your customers.
Supply Chain subjects include the following: -
Supply Side
- Sourcing and supplier evaluation
- Negotiating techniques
- Inventory Management Contracts and Tendering
Demand Side
- Market Analysis
- Distribution
- Sales and Promotions
Enterprise Resource Planning
Information Technology and e-commerce
Risk Management
Forecasting, matching supply and demand
Managing Cash Flow
Closed loop systems (recycling)
Radio frequency identification devices (RFID’s) and new technologies
How can Science City York help?
Science City York can provide help and assistance in the following areas: -
- Taking an objective view of your overall business strategy and your supply chain to improve efficiency and profitability
- Identifying your business’ core competences so that you can concentrate on the things you do best
- Supplier selection and rationalisation to reduce costs and work better together
- Identifying activities that can be outsourced and managing outsource relationships to maximise productivity and goodwill
- Aligning demand and supply, improved forecasting and stock control
- Using e-commerce to integrate the supply chain to cut costs and save time
- Developing contacts with local suppliers – Group development and networking (link to SCY networking events page)
- Developing supply chains of an individual company or group of companies that may wish to collaborate for the purpose of tendering for large contracts (http://www.ve-net.org)
The primary aim is to train individuals within your company to introduce and maintain good supply chain practices and promote an ethos of continuous improvement.
Contacts
For further information on any aspect of improving your business efficiency please contact the Science City York team.