OPS Rules Management Consultants

Coca-Cola Co. said that it plans to sell nine production facilities to three of its largest independent bottlers as it seeks to unload low-margin assets and reduce manufacturing costs in the United States.

Pepsi Bottling Group approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a daunting challenge: consumer preference was shifting from carbonated drinks to noncarbonated drinks and from cans to bottles.

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is always one to think big and talk big, and he usually delivers, too, which is what makes a couple of his latest comments so interesting.

We prepared this whitepaper to give you more detail on the principles and framework we use with customers to help them segment and reduce the complexity of their value chains.

At their recent conference, Gartner released the top 25 Supply Chain list, which provides insight into the focus of successful companies.

Deploying analytics to make business decisions is generating tremendous interest and results for companies. The ability to make decisions based on data is particularly important in supply chain and operations where the tradeoffs are complex.

Schneider Electric calculated the difference with traditional single location methods and found out they could save 11%, but with multi-echelon inventory optimization they could save 30%.

To fully realize inventory savings you also need to analyze the interplay between the location where the inventory is maintained as you may be losing on risk pooling and other potential savings by looking at inventory in one location.

Apple's supply chain checks suggest ‘white hot’ iPhone 6 opportunity - But can Apple's supply chain the meet demand?

The evolving role of supply chain requires more diverse skills, exposure to the company’s end to end functions, knowledge of how other companies run their supply chains and understanding the use of data and analytics to improve operations.

Supply chain management is no longer a cost center for business. To many manufacturing companies, it is now considered the most important part of the business.

The exiting train had a line sufficient for a couple hundred people, and really no “start”. Once you have built a system simulation one can easily run “worst case scenarios” and plan for pain points.

In many cases, inventory related costs can rival transportation spend as the largest logistics cost - and often holds the most opportunity for significant improvement once it’s closely examined. Our warehouse/DC insiders give us a refresher on the all too often overlooked practices.

With a multi-tier network of three plants, four Distribution Centers (DCs) in the US serving both the US and Canadian markets, 450 finished goods and 1781 components and raw materials, this was not something that could be done easily.

Inventory is a highly visible asset and, in many companies, also the largest asset, and in today’s highly competitive global economy, inventory has become the focus of improvement for many companies - in our engagements, we have seen many inventory management professionals develop interesting approaches to managing and reducing their safety stock - here, we will discuss some of the common pitfalls in those approaches.