Supply Chain and Operations

Business and Contract Manufacturing Challenges for the Supply Chain, Operations and Contract Manufacturing leaders

As companies refocus on core competencies and virtualized operations, this has increased the strategic importance of outsourced contract manufacturing and packaging operations. The supply chain, operations and contract manufacturing teams in charge of these relationships are now on point to drive an ever increasing share of a brand owner’s production.

A huge responsibility, particularly when you are dealing with hundreds of relationships with material suppliers, contract manufacturers, contract packagers/assemblers and distribution partners. You need to connect to these partners, share planning and real-time execution information with them, ensure they have the materials they need and monitor their status and performance. What if you had a virtual operational model that enabled you to have the same level of visibility, coordination and control over outsourced manufacturing and supply partners that you do today with internal operations?

How TraceLink can help Supply Chain, Operations and Contract Manufacturing leaders with Contract Manufacturing challenges

• Drive Right-First-Time predictability and scalability of outsourced manufacturing production. Leverage integrated cross-partner and cross-site visibility into production status to improve decision-making, improve information sharing between internal and external work teams, and empower contract partners to help drive process improvements through improved sharing of forecasts, process artifacts and milestones.
• Speed product delivery and reduce operational cost throughout the production lifecycle. Reduce purchase order negotiation time, take delays out of the manufacturing process and cash-to-cash cycle, ensure materials are available as needed and eliminate manual labor in production status and operational reporting.
• Reduce inventory and safety stock levels. Enable lean operations by improving visibility into current inventory levels across external supply, tighten production plans and execution schedules created for anticipated demand and identify potential production delays before they impact delivery schedules.
• Improve connectivity and collaboration with supply partners. Establish rich collaborative connections with even long-tail supply partners without heavy integration burdens and establish and dissolve collaborative process workspaces with remote teams as needed.
• Monitor and assess performance of contract partners and optimize operational performance against KPIs. Improve current execution and enhance long-term planning by gaining better insight of individual contract partner and overall external supply operational performance.

Next steps

• Try It Yourself.  In minutes, launch a no obligation FREE TRIAL of our Predictable Supply Suite. Create your own Process Link collaborative team workspace, invite and quickly connect to virtual team members, then experience a new world of production visibility and tracking across your contract manufacturing operations!
• Demo Production Tracking.  Request a guided PERSONAL DEMO of our Production Tracking and ProcessLink solutions. On your schedule, one of our team members will take you through our solution.

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• Discover Production Tracking.  Find out how the TraceLink Production Tracking solution can give you visibility and control throughout the entire contract manufacturing lifecycle. Go Production Tracking
• Experience ProcessLink.  Review TraceLink's innovative approach to connecting you and your internal contract manufacturing teams to your partners both fast and flexibly. Go ProcessLink