SOLUTIONS
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IBP / S&OP / S&OE
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Systems integration and Application Stand-up
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Inventory and Customer Segmentation
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Demand Planning / CPFR / VMI
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Supply and Capacity Planning, with Production Wheel
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KPI Hierarchy and Continuous Improvement methodology
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Data Visualization and Business Intelligence
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Network Design and Optimization
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Executive Team Communications
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Supply Chain Organizational Design
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Change Management
EXPERTISE
INDUSTRIES
Food and Agriculture
Altius optimizes supply chains with a focus on cost and service, always looking for ways to tie process improvement to cost-to-serve. Long-term strategy is an essential driver of solution design, so we tailor solutions to growth objectives that fit both short- and long-term growth plans. Specific areas of opportunity in this space often center on simplifying delivery models and tightening execution to support perishability requirements.
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Altius supports clients by designing supply chain models that build upon a business' go-to-market strategy. Our expertise in inventory portfolio optimization and customer segmentation is often critical to an optimal solution in this space. We also look for ways to fit appropriate supply chain technology within the design process, either in recommending and supporting a new implementation or improving the application of an existing platform.
Consumer Electronics
Altius helps clients in this dynamic and volatile industry build resilient supply chains, which allow for optionality in model execution and pivoting with economic conditions. The full scope of end-to-end requirements is included in the model design, and we look for ways to allow consumer expectations to flow back through the procurement process as efficiently as possible.
Mining
Altius merges logistics, transportation, and material handling expertise at mining and processing sites to help improve cost efficiency and handling operations. We help shippers find the best locations and setups for loadout, product storage, and multi-modal transloading through logistics and distribution network optimization.
VALUE OUTCOMES
Bringing teams together through Integrated Business Planning
Action: Benchmark the current state process to develop an improvement plan, migrating the cross-functional team by increasing levels of maturity across meeting cadence and process steps.
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Outcome: Led supply chain, commercial, finance, and operations leaders within a $500M global specialty ingredients business through IBP transformation, saving $5M in inventory and manufacturing costs in the first year.
Leading Cost-Effective Technology Integrations
Action: Coached local and centralized planning teams on improving data maintenance and planning tool parameter usage to drive system response.
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Outcome: Multiple implementations of APS software to support improved planning, yielding over 20% reduction in inventory cost.
Optimizing the Balance Sheet Without Compromising Customer Experience
Action: Partnered with Commercial and Operations leaders to create a robust MTO / MTS inventory portfolio management process to transition the business from an “endless customer service” mindset to a quantitatively-driven target.
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Outcome: Led the portfolio management process to reduce inventory by 20% and improve service level from 97% to 99%.
Collaborating with Customers to Improve Demand Planning
Action: Benchmarked all Demand Planning and VMI activities and overhauled processes, reporting, and metrics in alignment with Commercial and Customer teams.
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Outcome: Improved forecast accuracy from 55% to 75% at the DFU-per-month level while supporting a reduction in post-seasonal obsolescence by 35%.
Matching Supply and Demand in a Cyclical Business
Action: Collaborated with manufacturing and logistics teams to align demand and supply in heavily seasonal markets, enhancing seaborne shipping volume from Asian facilities to global markets.
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Outcome: Managed a high-growth, multinational product line within a volatile consumer electronics market, maintaining more than 98% service level while reducing working capital in inventory by 10%.
Streamlining Cost-effective Decision Making Through Improved Visualization
Action: Created capacity utilization GUI tool for key work centers, integrating inputs from the Commercial team to show constraints in a five-year horizon under various demand assumptions.
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Outcome: Demonstrated over $3M in capital spend avoidance in collaboration with manufacturing and operations leadership.
