SMART is our e-Supply Chain solution for monitoring, calculating and adjusting the supply chain. It enables us in to solve potential service and stocking issues early on.
The SMART e-Supply Chain Solution answers these questions:
How can you shop, place and track orders yourself?
How can you delegate the management of your inbound supply chain?
How can you improve your accounts payable administration?
How can you shop, place and track orders yourself?
SMART gives you the ability to manage your inbound supply chain online. In other words, you can place and track your orders, as well as view the stock and delivery situations. Via this solution, you can get full control and visibility over your inbound supply chain, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What are the benefits to you?
- Visibility in the supply chain
- Frees the customer from having to call SCA Packaging
- Easy to use via the internet
Is this service suited for you?
- Small to medium customer with repeat orders
How can you delegate the management of your outbound supply chain?
SMART also enables you to fully delegate the management of your outbound supply chain to us under the Vendor Managed Inventory process.
We assume ownership and responsibility for replenishing goods to warehouse or deliveries directly to production lines using a calculation based on demand and stock figures and agreed-upon business rules.
Through this solution, you can concentrate your resources on key internal processes rather than on material planning and procurement.
Additionally, the close integration and cooperation between us usually allows you to reduce inventory requirements in the supply chain.
What are the benefits to you?
- No packaging order process required
- Stock reduction in the total supply chain
- Increased supply chain transparency
- Reduced overall cost
- Improved level services
- Reduced administration
Is this service suited for you?
This solution requires strong internal processes at both your and our side. Both sides must have real-time demand and inventory data. In other words, there are some prerequisites for applying this approach.
- Supply Chain Organisation
- Data accuracy and consistency (customer & plant)
- Relationship built on trust and long-term contract
- Effective real-time systems
How can you improve your accounts payable administration?
SMART provides for an Easy Accounts Payable option. This gives us the ability, in collaboration with you, to track in real time any discrepancies between our deliveries and your receipts and to solve these logistical problems very rapidly and early, before they become invoice issues.
Through this solution, we reduce dramatically the reconciliation work required at your accounts payable department by ensuring insuring that our invoices are aligned with the receipts issued as goods enter your warehouse.
What are the benefits to you?
- Reduced accounts payable administration
Is this service suited for you?
- Medium to large customers
- Customers equipped with effective real time systems