Lean distribution

LEAN DISTRIBUTION
LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAINS
CATEDRATICO: SABINO VELASQUEZ TRUJILLO
INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE TUXTLA GUTIERREZ
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
MAYO 2011
LEAN DISTRIBUTION
LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAINS
CATEDRATICO: SABINO VELASQUEZ TRUJILLO
INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE TUXTLA GUTIERREZ

Lean distribution.

The distribution is no longer just for manufacturers currently taking a pagedirectly from the playbook lean, with a vision of where the distribution companies are beginning to adopt a long-range value in commercial practice.

In each area within a department is a provider of business processes from order entry and processing, inventory control, finance, human resources, and the purchase of vendor management, customer relationship management management (CRM), sales andmarketing can benefit from the principles of lean distribution.
 
The principles that drive improved quality, reduced waste and improved competitiveness, distribution companies are responsible for providing superior customer service while reducing operating costs. But by cutting areas such as inventory, transportation and service charges often result in the company a negative impact on the servicethey provide.

Minimize costs without affecting service, one of the most difficult activities is presented to the dealer and challenges, requires a delicate balancing act. The companies with the aim of this balance difficult to have a clear imperative: To improve the bottom line not only through cost cuts, but also by implementing new and improved processes to enhance the productivity andservice levels.

Enter distribution read a radically different approach to business.
The concept of fat distribution and how it establishes a framework to help retailers operate at peak efficiency, exceed customer expectations, profitability, and achieve competitive differentiation.

By delivering tools to improve efficiency and enhance productivity, the report solutions help distributioncompanies to run a lean operation distribution. Functionally robust and proven, these business-specific applications that, providing retailers to reduce waste and redundancies in an extraordinary climate of complexity, no errors, delays or inefficiencies.

Distribution companies with these solutions can best navigate the complexities common through automation and integration of core processes, includinginventory management, order entry, financial management and sales operations. As a result, obtain a deep and comprehensive vision of the factors that drive customer service and other key processes.

The solutions to support the initiatives of lean distribution with the basic functionality, including:

Order processing. Provides full control and management of the entry process customer orders,allowing for exceptional speed, accuracy and customer service.

The orders are fully processed with the least amount of keystrokes. At the same time, relevant information on inventory, prices, shipping costs, customers, and still a lot up front and visible to satisfy the ordering process and eliminate redundant steps and not valued. Integration with other systems such as inventory, warehousing,financial management and helps keep all current systems and productive workers.

Inventory control. Effective control units, the inventory from end to end and management to help increase inventory turns and maximize margins, while determining the appropriate amount of inventory at lower cost. Distributors using the functionality can control the entire inventory life cycle from order entry andcustomer management to managing complex pricing and discount prices and units of measurement.

Warehouse Management. Helps manage workflow warehouse in real time, providing advanced picking, packing, and placement capacity to improve the distributor's ability to improve the management of warehouse activities. Specialized features such as voice-enabled, Radio Frequency Identification (RFI), the...