Benefits for Finance
Benefits for Finance
Manufacturing Financial Analysis and Results
DemandPoint’s unified combination of supply chain software, training and consulting solutions use analysis-driven strategies that leverage business intelligence, data marts, analytics and dashboards for a direct and favorable impact on the Balance Sheet and the P&L. Some examples are:
- Cure manufacturing scheduling and queue times that damage cash flow.
- Improve on-time delivery performance even with reduced inventory and working capital.
- Forecast demand using Point-of-Sale data and demographic data, for improved forecast accuracy and reduced “lost sales”.
- Optimize inventory distribution through a retail channel for the right quantity and mix, to reduce excessive markdowns that can be a drain on margins.
With a 27 year history, DemandFlow Technology has been proven in both small and large businesses to:
- Reduce inventory and working capital
- Increase operating margins
- Improve delivery time and performance
- Optimize inventory and reduce labor costs
- Improve cash conversion cycle
Financial Performance Training Program
To succeed in today’s economic climate, businesses must achieve competitive advantage by creating a financially savvy workforce that can help identify opportunities for generating cash, reducing costs and improving customer delivery.
DemandPoint’s Financial Performance Training helps companies execute a comprehensive training strategy for educating the workforce about business operations in order to create tangible savings and improvements. It turns your employees into strategic financial partners within your organization. Learn more about our Financial Performance Training workshop.
Moving beyond Lean Manufacturing to drive Financial Results
Order-to-cash is the complete process from point of sale to delivery of the product and through to payment received. Within this order-to-cash cycle, significant supplier, sales-channel management, production and distribution challenges exist that impede a firm’s supply chain performance.
Many times we see firms that have embarked on a lean manufacturing initiative that restructures the production environment. However, the success in manufacturing may not have impacted the company’s financial growth. That’s because often there is a disconnect between the operational platform and the business model. Manufacturing is only one piece of the puzzle. Financial velocity must accompany operational agility. The risk to profitability may no longer be the manufacturing lead times – the risk to profitability may be hidden in the shadows everywhere else in the supply chain. That’s why DemandFlow solutions are an all-encompassing approach including manufacturing, supply, fulfillment and sales across the whole order-to-cash cycle.
For example, perhaps you have witnessed firsthand the difficulties of driving to demand when your suppliers lack the resilience to deliver to your shifting needs. Companies lose momentum when their suppliers lack the ability to flex with demand. To counter these deficiencies, many businesses increase inventory. However from a cash flow and working capital perspective, increasing inventory is not the best answer. A better solution would be to condition your suppliers to integrate to the demand-driven principles that drive your operations. DemandPoint’s Supplier Integration strategies do exactly that.
Many companies also need to realign their organizational chart because their practices are outpacing their org chart’s ability to deliver results in planning, sales, finance/costing, procurement, operations and logistics. DemandPoint consulting can assist you with this.
Learn more about the metrics and processes we use to improve the P&L statement and balance sheet. And what we use to determine the gateway to cash conversion performance. See how we bring together Supply Chain Training, Supply Chain Consulting and Supply Chain Software for a full supply chain offering.
