Mieloo & Alexander has established a partnership alliance with Vivacadena - www.vivacadena.com. Together with Vivacadena we can move your supply chain responsiveness to a higher level of sophistication. Recent implementations with multinational and national companies have shown excellent return on investment: significant improvement in turnover and profitability and a significant reduction of inventory and thus reduced invested capital.

With this service Mieloo & Alexander brings two components.

1. The first one is about removing the obstacles which stand in the way of a truly responsive supply chain.

What we find is that many companies organise their supply chain in a way that cost are optimised in the various parts of the chain. Example: the logistics manager has a key performance indicator which drives him to increase the number of full truck loads to shops. The more full truck loads, the lower the cost of transportation. The effect of this “sub-optimisation” is a reduction of responsiveness as shop orders are held back until a full truck can be filled. For a shop manager, this gives a level of uncertainty in supply which will lead him to increase the buffer stock in the shop. Mieloo & Alexander will help you to align the various managers in the supply chain towards one direction: increase responsiveness to boost the throughput of the chain.

2. The first component is supported by a second component i.e. the Vivacadena software suite.

Some highlights of the Vivacadena software suite are:

• A highly accessible system that can effectively balance demand and supply across all channel and departments, creating the transparency and control you need;
• Vivacadena identifies where sales have been lost due to the unavailability of your product and where oversupply has increased cost. It brings decisions back to the one language that is understood by every department and across all companies: cash;
• Vivacadena is a truly responsive system. It does not generate forecasts, but measures actual fluctuations in demand and supply, continuously adjusting norm levels accordingly. Per product, per location, per day. Depending on your input and needs, the system can take as many as 80% of all necessary decisions automatically – and prompt your qualified experts to address the remainder.

Experience with previous projects shows that a typical approach has the following phases:

• Business case analysis: based on a data set provided by the client, Mieloo & Alexander calculates the business case. Depending on the outcome, the client decides whether or not to pursue with the next step;
• Pilot: in order to prove the business case, a pilot will be conducted for a set of products and locations;
• Implementation and support.