Strategic Supply Analysis

The supply chain modelling and mapping capabilities, that are built-in to Plexus, provide an unrivalled resource to analyse supply chains using any set of criteria contained within the Plexus knowledge base.  Below you will see just some examples of typical strategic analyses.

Multiple supply chains

A major defence or aerospace contractor has different supply chains for many existing projects & products each of which is separately modelled with their own parameterised sourcing decisions and strategies.  In order to improve overall management  and commercial decision making,  there is an opportunity to  overlay an increasing number of existing or prospective product supply chain maps over the same common framework of suppliers and internal work centres, commodity types (e.g. Cast Casings), Locations (Continents, Countries, Regions, Counties, and Cities), material groups etc.

This allows the company to pose questions like:
“For all the supply chains I have modelled, show me the companies supplying the “Casings” commodity type, which are in North East of England. Now show me which products they are supplying into. Now show me the value of the work performed by this sub-set of companies in 2010.”

Defence industrial base

Examine the effect of another partner or country joining a major defence project, the impact on local companies and government defence agencies, and the interactions with the ‘new’ country.  How do you maintain your sub-tier suppliers for legacy in-service equipment, and ensure continuity of maintenance skills and innovation during the consolidation process?

Analysis of industrial base for a national strategic industry

For major strategic energy project, such as a new nuclear power plant, the bidding party needs to engage in a strong advocacy programme which requires that it is able to provide government and other relevant parties with data such as the amount of project work carried out by local companies, the number of jobs created; while at the same time showing to their partners, information such as readiness and plans for mitigating gaps.

Example: Supply chain filtered to the critical path and grouped by contract. This Gantt view is synchronized with the network view, and its roll-up structure can be set to any of the Grouping Hierarchies - e.g., by location, by supplier, by product structure breakdown, etc.: