Supply chain management constitutes a range of activities in broad-spectrum to plan, execute, and regulate a product’s flow in the most economical way possible. It is a great way of maximising and fulfilling the needs of your clientele, businesses, and various organisations that are sticking to the deadlines is of utmost importance. In a nutshell, they are the backbone of almost every business as they connect all the processes required between the manufacture and the final delivery of the product to a consumer.
To create a competitive advantage in the market, we design the solution which helps the supply chain logistics companies in India to make use of both the business strategy and tech solutions in the form of specialised software to facilitate the flow of materials. Our customised solution covers everything, right from product development, sourcing, production, logistics to the information needed to coordinate well with these activities. Thus it is based on collaborative thinking to maximise the overall value proposition. Although the supply chain management process is expansive and complex, it still is efficient and effective due to the conscious efforts by the supply chain firms to develop and run their supply chains.
To look at the concept more holistically, we need to understand its core ideas:
1. Every product reaching an end-user is practically a joint effort by multiple organisations that collectively constitute the “supply chain.”
2. The organisations constituting the supply chain are linked together through physical flows and informative flows-
The visible aspect of the supply chain includes the transformation, movement, and storage of good materials.
Informative flows:Helps the supply chain partners to coordinate and control their day-to-day flow of goods and services up and down.
A traditional Supply Chain Management system is likely to have the following five aspects:
More of a demand planning, this stage involves gauging the historical data and analytics to create a demand or forecast plan for the sales department to agree on based on past trends. In the next step called the product planning, the company narrows down the plan to arrive at the specifics of where and how the products thought to be in demand would be manufactured.
The next phase involves choosing the suppliers to create these products. Major processes include ordering, receiving, inventory management, and payment authorizations.
It includes making the final product from the raw materials, testing its quality, and preparing it for shipping and final delivery.
Dispatching and delivering the customer orders and invoice, and receiving the payments.
An avenue for the customers to send back the damaged or unwanted products for exchange or simple returns.
At AWL, our clients can get services which benefit them in various ways. We are India's leading tech-based logistic service providers.
1. Help fulfil companies manage demands, deal with disruptions, carry the right amount of inventory, and fulfil the customers’ demands quite effectively.
2. To tackle the growing complexity of today’s supply chains and increasing globalisation of the businesses worldwide posing strong competition, it enables the companies to choose effective strategies and appropriate technology.
3. Results in higher profits, lower costs, and effective collaborations.
4. Ensures customer satisfaction and fosters customer loyalty by means of great service.
5. Helps in improving health care from a societal viewpoint by protecting people from climate extremes as people rely on the supply chains for the essentials like food and medicines too.
6. Helps create job opportunities as it is a collaborative venture and requires manpower in various departments and stages.
7. Has a wider reach and can be of good use to possibly all kinds of businesses including cosmetics, electronics, energy, entertainment, engineering, and so on.
8. Helps improve data visibility as the resulting analytics can aid in strengthening and capitalising further on your strengths
AWL India being the best supply chain solution providers facilitate the management of data besides providing the goods movement with cybersecurity, software, and advanced infrastructures. We offer high-end logistic management to the supply chains which includes the plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services. It also takes care of the information between the origin point and the consumption point in order to meet customers' requirements.
Supply chain in any fashion industry involves products with short life cycles, variable and unpredictable client demands, enormous product diversity, labour-intensive production, and extensive supply procedures. These are the distinguishing characteristics from a regular supply chain that complicate decision making in the fashion industry supply chain.
The process of transporting a product from raw material to consumer is referred to as the supply chain process. Product, supply, demand, sales and operations, and supply management are all part of the supply chain process. AWL India ensures an efficient supply chain process for your business by using leading technological solutions that are available in the industry.
There are five basic steps involved in supply chain management that include supply of raw materials, production, inventory planning, capacity planning, and distribution planning. AWL India provides robust logistics and warehouse management solutions that can help in making your supply chain operations more efficient by optimising them and understanding the pain points.
Healthcare Supply Chain is different from standard supply chains as it is a collection of processes, teams, and the movement of medicines, surgical equipment, and other perishable items that are demanded by healthcare professionals. AWL India provides temperature controlled warehouses and special vehicles that are equipped with freezers to maintain the temperature of perishable healthcare products and ensure smooth healthcare supply chain operations.
The process of receiving orders, processing them, and finally distributing the products to customers is known as order fulfilment in supply chain management. The order fulfilment process begins when a consumer places an order and concludes when they receive the final product.