Successful Implementation of Supply Chain Solutions

• Managing your inventory becomes challenging;
• Your business dictates a growing need for continual tracking the flow of your goods and supply chain information;
• You want to minimize costs on the procurement process;
• You are seeking the best quality stock at the minimum price possible.

Supply chain management (SCM) software serves to streamline your supply chain and logistics. These solutions include real-time analytical systems that handle the flow of product and data across your supply chain network. They are aimed to enhance multiple SCM operations, such as:

• Demand planning;
• Supply network planning;
• Production planning;
• Detailed scheduling;
• Supplier management;
• Logistics;
• Supply chain analytics.

The biggest question for a business owner with regard to SCM solutions implementation is probably how to enhance workflows and maximize the chances of ROI.
Almost 80% of companies that actively embrace supply chain management infrastructure and capabilities achieved revenue growth that is significantly higher than the industry average.

To achieve optimal results with the adoption of new technology, experts offer several efficient tactics.

• Perform an internal IT audit.

In order to embark on your SCM software integration journey smoothly, you should analyze every aspect of your business workflow including the planning of sales, operations, inventory, logistics, and production. Consider how the teams at every stage gather, store, analyze, and act upon digital data. There are several things to focus on in this process:

• Determine the sources of data that you will link to your digital supply chain network during the implementation. Choose the ones that are most often updated by you or other stakeholders, or have the best data structures, depending on the specific goals of your software deployment.
• Identify the instances of planning or data silos or shadow IT, if any, that need to be rooted out. Thus, you will understand which integrations you need, and which trainings are required for stakeholders planning to use the new IT.
• Check whether the current systems require refactors or updates to integrate properly with the new digital supply chain solutions. For instance, a legacy code in any of your systems will need an update before the system will be able to send data to the new solution.

This checklist will help you get a handle on your current infrastructure and properly prepare for implementing your supply chain solutions.

• Select cloud vs on-premise.As a business owner, you perfectly understand the essential goal of implementing supply chain management solutions. However, this may not be the case with your colleagues and employees. Make sure that all users have a clear vision of how the technology will make their life easier. Changing workflows often causes headaches for users in the short run; so, provide the proper motivation and training for all employees involved.
• Develop an integration roadmap.To succeed with the SCM adoption process, you should carefully plan your ongoing efforts from the ground up. Consider that your SCM solution needs to integrate smoothly with the systems applied by your partners and clients, and also at other touchpoints on the supply chain such as smart ports and logistics providers. Create a clear action plan and a time frame for your project.
  That’s being said, you should also pay significant attention to choosing the right supply chain software development partner. Your vendor should be able to make a substantial difference in your company’s ability to continue its confident growth amid a complex and volatile global supply chain.

One of our successful cases directly deals with supply chain solutions.

Project background

Our client is a big sporting goods retailer with a wide store network. This company is an official Nike distributor in several countries.

Challenge

The client was searching for a convenient solution for changing product stickers right away without the interference of the additional company’s subdivisions.

Solution

Sirin Software developed a handy electronic system capable of printing product stickers so that any changes to the existing product stickers could be made immediately.
The system comprises a mobile printer and mobile application. By employing the solution, a user can scan the existing labels and make automatic changes to all the corresponding pieces of information, including the barcode, price, font, and more.

Result

Employees are enabled to change labels instantly once the need emerges. Thus, they save a great deal of time and effort on changing products’ descriptions.