Why good supply chain management is the key to success
Have you ever had to wait forever for your order because of a shortage of raw materials? Or had your products stuck at customs for days or even weeks?
Good supply chain management is the backbone of a successful company and requires a lot of know-how. For example, it coordinates supplier management, production and export shipping; and thus has a significant impact on customer service.
What does Supply Chain Management do?
You may have noticed….
The supply chain runs like a thread from the procurement of raw materials to the arrival of the goods at the customer.
Among other things, it aims to optimize processes, reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction.
Whether you need prototypes or mass-produced products… and whether that involves thrust bearing production, stamping technology, or plastic injection molding….
From lifetime greased thrust bearings to metal-plastic hybrids, our supply chain management handles:
– Demand Planning
– Procurement
– Production planning and monitoring
– Manufacturing
– Shipping
Current challenges for the supply chain
Whether it’s wood, steel or plastics… Many companies have been struggling with massive price increases and extremely long delivery times due to the lasting global shortage of raw materials.
Whether you are a raw material supplier or an end customer, the situation is critical.
With an agile supply chain management, it’s easier to catch problems in advance and ideally solve them directly… If you have a trusting relationship and clear communication with your customers.
If everyone pulls together, problems can be managed, failures prevented, and additional costs potneitally avoided.
With the help of our customers, and thanks to a safety stock, Ekko-Meister has so far been able to bypass the plastic crisis and switch to an alternative material at the same time.
This has so far prevented drastic price increases for our customers.
What global impact the current geopolitical situation will have is, of course, yet to be seen.
Supply chain management for sustainability
The topic of sustainability is becoming increasingly important for companies. This is due both to their own environmental awareness and to ever stricter regulations and standards.
It’s not only the automotive industry that is expected to become CO2 neutral in the future.
If you want to reduce your CO2 footprint, you may want to consider your supply chain.
So how can you achieve CO2 neutrality? For example, by reducing CO2 emissions directly during transport and processing – or by offsetting them with renewable energy.
Some starting points for CO2 reduction include how you handle:
– Waste management
– Recycling
– Climate protection
– Critical chemicals
– Packaging management
– Environmental management systems
– Renewable energies
Ekko-Meister is ISO 14001 certified and follows additional guiding principles that are anchored in our company policy.
These include, for example, that we use reusable packaging whenever possible. And our new factory, which we expect to move into in the summer, will be powered by solar energy, among other things.
Shipping professionals at work
As a customer, you usually don’t have to worry about how much know-how is involved in a successful delivery. After all, our shipping department takes care of it in close cooperation with the freight forwarder.
Especially for exports, it is crucial that your delivery documents are prepared correctly and according to customs regulations.
Export and customs rules are very strict. A small mistake – and your parts can get stuck at customs for days.
That’s why it’s important that specialists take care of your shipment. Our approved exporters are familiar with customs tariff numbers, preferential origin and Incoterms® – and everything else that matters.
They are assisted by our specially developed ERP system, which automatically indicates whether a shipment is entitled to preferential status.
And this must be correct – because an incorrect export declaration is a criminal offense for which the signatory is liable as a private individual.
This is one of the many reasons why our export specialists take a very close look.
You can rely on our supply chain
With Ekko-Meister you are in safe hands. We make sure that everything runs smoothly. You simply send us your order and we take care of the rest!
Whether procurement management, production planning or professional shipping…
Our supply chain is a finely tuned, agile system for all-round satisfaction and happy customers.
Please contact us if you have any questions!
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