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Objectives: Reduce complexity, Increase efficiency, and Reduce costs
With many manufacturers and distributors painfully admitting to having complex supply chains, laden with excessive cost, Aspen’s approach to providing supply chain solutions has always been very practical, sometimes simple, yet always cost effective. We never lose sight of our three simple objectives: reduce complexity, increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Acquiring Transportation Management Technology and outsourcing are two common business decisions that thousands of successful companies have made, allowing them to focus on their core competency, while monitoring the cost and efficiencies of their outsourced transportation network through metric reporting delivered to them from their transportation management software.
Aspen’s transportation management technology, Supply EYE, is WEB based and serves as an information hub. Supply EYE pulls all active shipments from all carriers of our customer’s supply chain to a single screen, displaying all pertinent carrier information, achieving global supply chain visibility, with the ability to manage all carriers from a single screen. Integrated with Supply EYE is our state of the art, partnered shipping system solution, Process Shipper™, the ultimate Multi-Carrier Pack & Ship System on the market today and the nations only SAP certified shipping solution. The programmed intelligence of our Process Shipper™ System allows our customers to always ship the best and most economical way based on the shipments required arrival date, days in transit and service level or customer routing requirements.
Our Midwest based operations support team uses Supply EYE to manage your supply chain so you don’t have to. Our proactive approach to supply chain management keeps service disruptions to an absolute minimum. Our exceptional communication skills will ensure that all issues are communicated and escalated in an exact manner as defined in our customer specific S.O.P., ensuring that we consistently meet or exceed our customer’s expectations.
Our objectives remain constant and cross over to all three of our supply chain initiatives: Reduce complexity, Increase efficiency, and Reduce costs.
Supply Chain Initiatives: Strategic, Tactical and Operational
Strategic
The Strategic Initiative is planning with long term objectives from the enterprise perspective. This is the grand scheme of things; the map of success, which when followed achieves all targeted goals. Key elements in our strategic plans are:
- Network optimization
- Information Technology infrastructure
- to support supply chain operations
- Partnerships and alliances
- improve operating efficiency
- improve communication
- reduce costs
Tactical
The Tactical Initiative is planning with objectives to be completed immediately or within a short term. These are specific objectives which collectively meet all the targeted goals of the strategic plan. Key elements in our tactical plans are:
- Competitive carrier contracts
- Outsourced human resource support
- Metrics to measure targeted efficiency
- Metrics to measure targeted cost savings
- Establishing continuous improvement milestones
- Establishing master transportation footprint
- Layer in carrier specific footprint to master footprint
- Benchmark carrier performance
- Measure customer satisfaction
Operational
The Operational Initiative is the daily execution of the objectives from the tactical planning sessions. These daily endeavors will be captured in the metric reporting and measured against expected results. Key elements in our operational plans vary greatly, as they are all driven by our customer’s specific needs.
OUTSOURCE, OUTWIT, OUTLAST, BUT DON’T OUTPAY – DON’T BE A SURVIVOR
BE A LEADER, with Aspen’s state-of-the-art, integrated technologies of Supply EYE and Process Shipper™ which provides our customers with global visibility of their supply chain along with tactical execution tools which allows them to proactively manage their supply chain from origin to proof of delivery. Long termed success is a planned event which begins with one phone call to the Aspen Group.
