Sustainable Supply Chain & Manufacturing
The Next Generation Value Chain is Sustainable
In today’s environment, sustainability is both an economic and an environmental imperative.
Creating sustainable value and impact is key to a company’s future viability and success as a global market leader. The potential to realize sustainability lies in the value chain and is often hidden. It needs to be unlocked, with a broader perspective and a comprehensive goal.
We develop and realize a shared vision with our customers: A competitive, intelligent and resilient Supply-Chain that enables manufacturing industry champions for sustainable growth in an uncertain environment.
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The Power of Transformation is Orange
When value creation falters, efficiency becomes a survival factor
Complex processes in growing networks drive up scheduling costs, capital commitment and response times.
Operational controllability is achieved through end-to-end transparency of material flows, throughput times and capacities – as the basis for targeted decisions and efficiency on demand.
We bring back efficiency
When complexity grows, processes need to be harmonised end-to-end.
Growth brings diversity – with new plants, systems and processes. Structural consistency reduces operational complexity and increases the speed of implementation.
Process governance ensures the necessary global standards as a foundation. In combination with AI-supported automation, processes are created that take effect more quickly, scale securely and significantly reduce management costs.
This not only makes growth possible, but also economically predictable.
We harmonise processes
When planning fails, the supply chain needs real synchronisation
Growth and volatility require coordinated decisions across functional boundaries. A common planning logic combines sales, production, logistics and purchasing into a controllable overall picture.
AI-supported, simulation-capable models visualise dependencies, evaluate scenarios in real time and increase the speed of response.
This creates a consistent cycle – across locations and functions. Resources are utilised in a more targeted manner, decision-making cycles are shortened and operational stability is strengthened.
We synchronise company divisions
When volatility becomes part of everyday life, the ability to react along the supply chain is crucial to success.
Dynamic markets demand fast, precise decisions in day-to-day operations. Recognising deviations early and reacting in a targeted manner protects quality, delivery reliability and capital commitment.
Integrated control systems form the basis for reliable real-time reactions. AI-supported master data maintenance and adaptive control loops enable automated countermeasures to be taken before rejects are produced, stock is devalued or customer relationships are damaged.
Operational stability becomes a calculable capability and avoidable costs are kept out of the system.
We enable responsiveness
When growth reaches system limits, scalability of the value chain becomes a must
New business models, markets and organisational forms increase the demands on processes and systems. Existing platforms often reach their functional and structural limits.
The technological transition to a business transformation platform with cloud, automation and AI creates the necessary flexibility and integration capability.
This creates scalable structures that increase efficiency, promote agility and transform operational processes into a resilient growth engine.
We create scalability
Value Drivers for Sustainable Supply Chain & Manufacturing
cbs helps and advises you to identify your cost efficiency goals strategically and operationally, plan them in an integrative manner and tackle them head-on. We support you throughout the entire supply chain and manufacturing along the design-to-operate process from strategy to implementation.
Cost optimization is more than a one-time effort; it is an ongoing discipline focused on reducing spending while maximizing business value. It cannot be treated in isolation but must always be considered interactively to make informed targeted decisions for growth and transformation.
Review your current operating model with us to ensure that you have the optimal conditions, technologies and processes for efficient operation.
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cbs specializes in helping companies improve the resilience and sustainability of their supply chains and mitigate disruptions and instabilities in the business process. We distinguish ourselves by positioning integrated business planning as a central element along the design-to-operate process in order to ensure on-time delivery in execution.
In this way, we achieve a synchronous axis between execution and planning via the seamless business process view in order to reflect awareness in the decision to be made and its consequences..
Design your target picture for your Design-2-Operate process with us and start with an outside-in view via our 360⁰ value chain assessment.Read more
cbs enables a 360° perspective on the value chain to ensure quality through a comprehensive approach that includes various elements such as organization, processes, technology, and data.
To improve quality within the supply chain and manufacturing, cbs supports companies to develop innovative strategies and technologies that enable an optimal trade-off between efficiency, sustainability, and flexibility. This is referred to as mastering the “magic triangle” and is crucial for ensuring the future viability of global market leaders.
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cbs supports industrial manufacturing customers to identify untapped potential for improvement in their inventory optimization along the entire value chain, to define improvement measures and to optimize them sustainably.
Together, we analyze their individual objectives and framework conditions and develop optimal solutions that meet the requirements of the end-customers and suppliers. This enables corporations to find an optimal balance between delivery performance and inventory.
Start with our Inventory Health Check in combination with state-of-the-art Data-Process-Mining to identify inventory optimization potential within the value chain.
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In a highly networked, increasingly dynamic world, it is becoming more and more difficult to make decisions due to a lack of experience and great uncertainty about the future. What will intelligent solutions look like in the future that enable quick decisions to be made in uncertain times?
An intelligent supply chain is characterized by the systematic collection and analysis of relevant data along the value chain. Algorithms and technologies help to identify dependencies and provide recommendations for action, including actuators that make automated adjustments.
We enable our customers to establish an intelligent supply chain requires a target image of how the stages of the value chain should interact with each other and what data is required for this. Within the roadmap to the digital supply chain, the individual fields can be implemented piece by piece and successively connected, depending on priority.
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Realizing a more and more resilient Sustainable Supply Chain & Manufacturing through a strategically planned integrated value chain – from planning to manufacturing and logistics. With a holistic digital approach and the utilization of newest technologies, global market leaders change their processes and organization to reach transparency and continuous planning.
By focusing on these factors, a manufacturing industry corporation can build a more resilient and sustainable value chain, capable of withstanding and quickly adapting to the ever-changing global market demands.
Based on the 360⁰ Value Chain Assessment, a resilient yet agile target image can be designed. Step by step, successful customers achieve new digital plateaus and increase their resilience and competitiveness.Read more
The digital transformation of the application landscape in supply chain and manufacturing is a complex challenge that requires seamless integration of technologies, systems, and real-time data. Those responsible are under tremendous pressure, not only due to the constantly shortening cycles of change but also because of expiring applications.
Our expertise in supply chain and manufacturing consulting, technology consulting, and transformation excellence enables us to support our clients on their journey to an innovative and competitive differentiating digital platform for the design-to-operate process.
The fields of action include:
The analysis of strategic corporate goals and the current situation as well as their impact on the design-to-operate E2E process. The derivation into the target image of the Intelligent Enterprise and the cbs Industry Best Practice, as well as the design of the roadmap. The complete implementation of the digital transformation, including project and change management.
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Sustainability is increasingly becoming a critical factor for industrial manufacturing companies due to its significant impact on the environment, society, and business operations. cbs provides a framework known as cbs.zero, which helps businesses build a sustainable and resilient supply chain.
The cbs.zero framework provides you with a viable lever for addressing the challenges you currently face: Climate change, pollution, resource scarcity. By adopting sustainable practices, you minimize your company’s carbon footprint.
You reduce your emissions and conserve your resources. You help preserve our planet for future generations and reduce the risks associated with pollution.
The cbs.zero framework helps you make your supply chain more efficient, reduce costs and improve the management of your critical resources. Your company becomes more attractive to customers, employees and investors who increasingly value environmentally sustainable business practices.
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References
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MES legacy system replacement with an agile project approach at Endress+Hauser TS
