Assessing the Supply Chains Flexibility verses Least Cost to Serve

In Saturn Projects we understand how important it is to have the ability within your supply chain to respond to changes in the market but it is essential look at the true cost to the business of that flexibility and the risk of only focusing on the cost to serve. We will help you answer the following questions.

• How quickly can the supply chain increase or decrease supply by 10%, 30%, 50%, 100%, and 1000%?

• What capacity do we have in the supply chain to deliver new products based on our current products?

• What capacity do we have in the supply chain to deliver completely new products?

• Do we have full visibility of our suppliers capacity?

• Do we have full or any visibility of suppliers in our industries capacity?

• What ability does the supply chain have to move supply around to use internal and external capacity?

• What are the restrictions stopping the supply chain to move supply around to use internal and external capacity?

• What are the longest and shortest lead times in each part of the supply chain?

• Does the supply chain have the ability to absorb a new product line?

• Does the supply chain have the ability to absorb a new company?

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