Supply Chain Solutions
Your supply should not restart with every order.
Most sourcing runs order by order: you buy, we ship, and the next one begins from nothing. A supply program runs continuously — your forecast books production, material is positioned before you need it, and an alternate source is being qualified the whole time.
- Forecast
- Sourcing
- Position
- Release
Two ways to buy the same material.
One of these is a transaction. The C&O way is a supply chain — and the difference is how much is already in place before you order anything.
A one-off shipment
You issue a purchase order.
It is sourced against that order.
It is produced, booked and shipped.
It clears customs and enters the country.
Shipment arrives at your gate.
Then it stops. Everything learned about your material, your factory and your timing stops with it, and the next order starts from nothing.
The program we run
You share a forecast.
We qualify the supply behind it, and an alternate behind that.
Production is booked against the forecast, not against a single order.
Material moves on a plan, in volumes that suit the container rather than the invoice.
It lands in the domestic network before you need it.
You release against demand, from stock.
The forecast updates, and the next cycle is already running.
Nothing restarts, because nothing stopped.
What we are doing between your orders.
A program is not a discount for buying more. It is work that continues in the months when you have not placed an order at all, so that the month you do, most of it is already done.
Forecasting
Your demand, far enough ahead to be worth acting on. The forecast is what lets production be booked before an order exists — and it is the only part of a program that needs anything from you.
A qualified bench
We identify and qualify factories continuously, and we develop alternates for the materials you depend on most. The point of doing it early is that a second source becomes a phone call instead of a project.
Procurement strategy
Where your material is bought and on what terms: consolidating suppliers where that helps you, spreading across countries where it does not, and working lead times down over the life of the program rather than per order.
Inventory position
Material held where it is useful to you. We plan inventory and position it inside the domestic network, close to the plants it serves, so that demand is met from stock rather than from a sailing schedule.
One supplier is a single point of failure.
Diversification costs nothing until the day it is the only thing that matters, which is also the day it is too late to start. So it runs as part of the program: alternates qualified across more than one country, on the materials where being stopped would hurt most.
That is what our work in Cambodia is. Government and commercial relationship development, facility identification, supplier and production development — the groundwork that makes a country a viable second source before a single order is placed there.
Alternative supplier development
A second factory qualified on your material while the first one is still running, so switching is a decision rather than a scramble.
Multi-country sourcing
The same material approved in more than one country, so a tariff change or a closed port moves the order instead of stopping it.
Supply chain diversification
Volume split deliberately rather than consolidated by default, on the materials where one interruption would reach your production line.
Risk mitigation planning
Knowing which of your materials have a single point of failure, and deciding in advance what happens on the day one of them fails.
A program is still made of shipments.
What changes is when material is bought and where it waits. What does not change is the documentation, and you get all of it on every shipment inside the program.
On every shipment
- 01Commercial invoice
- 02Packing list
- 03Bill of lading
- 04Certificate of origin
- 05Shipping manifest
- 06Container numbers
- 07Customs documentation
Tell us what you buy, and how often.
Tell us the material and the cadence, and we'll show you what a program around it could look like.