BI for Operations and Supply Chain Management

Operations and Supply Chain Management activities account for a predominate portion of the cost structure of products companies and could benefit most from the integration and analysis of data from multiple source systems.

Oco Operations and Supply Chain Management Solution provides best practices and leading-edge metrics, reports, and dashboards in areas such as vendor scorecards, purchasing, inventory, operations & quality management, service performance, and asset management. The Solution enables comprehensive analysis and monitoring of ongoing operations to help companies:

• Identify cost-to-serve for different customers or segments of customers;
• Determine which items are “at risk” of having excess inventory or inventory shortages and how do to prevent this from happening;
• Identify opportunities to reduce procurement costs by consolidating sourcing or changing allocations to different vendors;
• Gain visibility to monitor the cost of poor quality across product categories, manufacturing sites, and suppliers;
• Analyze maintenance spend across all equipment and identify opportunities to reduce costs and improve uptime.

The Oco Operations and Supply Chain Management Solution empowers management to:

• Tightly monitor operations through insightful dashboards, key metrics, exception reports, and alerts so you can preemptively detect and resolve emerging problems or variances;
• Have information quickly available to analyze any operating issue, and avoid the need to spend many weeks and hundreds of man-hours just assembling needed data;
• Tap information from multiple information sources and gain valuable insights by combining and analyzing operating and financial information together;
• Collaborate with suppliers, customers, and third-party service providers through Oco’s solutions, allowing all parties to share and view the same information.

The Oco Operations and Supply Chain Management Solution provides a rapid and compelling ROI and tangible benefits:

• Significantly reduce inventories of production materials and finished goods, and reduce or avoid shortages through advanced inventory analytics and monitoring capability;
• Attack costs in procurement, transportation, production, and quality through best practice analytics in each of these functional areas;
• Understand and monitor customer, product and channel profitability, and rationalize unprofitable segments;
• Reduce costs through complete visibility to supplier spend, on-time delivery, and quality to drive supplier consolidation and performance improvement;
• Significantly improve equipment productivity through a comprehensive view of equipment utilization, status, and service provider quality and performance.

Within weeks, decision makers from the CEO to the functional managers and operators can have the necessary information, available on-demand, to make fact-driven decisions.

Modules and Sample Reports:

• Sourcing & Procurement - Improve product quality, cost of goods sold, and indirect material cost productivity with insightful selection, ongoing measurement, and management of suppliers. 
  Sample reports:
  • Strategic Sourcing by Supplier
  • Supplier Cost Productivity
  • Supplier On-Time Delivery

• Inventory - Gain control of your supply-chain and ability to meet customer commitments by optimizing inventory.
    Sample reports:
  • Raw Material Inventory Analysis
  • Order Fill Rate
  • Out of Stock Parts

• Quality & Production - Improve design and production efficiency, product quality, and overall productivity through better visibility to Critical-to-Quality (CTQ’s) ″producibility″ parameters. 
  Sample reports:
  • Product Defect Rate (DPMO)
  • Cost of Quality Summary
  • First Pass Yield

• Transportation - Reduce transportation and logistics costs and improve delivery performance in an escalating cost environment.
  Sample reports:
  • Transportation Cost (budget and forecast)
  • Accessorial Charge Breakdown
  • Carrier Performance Scorecard