supply chain improvement

Alaris brings the sophisticated analysis and thoughtful management your supply chain requires.

Our clients need to understand the total landed cost for products manufactured in Asia. Understanding the operations of both the internal and external Asian distribution networks is key to defining total landed cost. Our team of professionals possesses extensive supply chain management experience to help clients define and execute their Asian supply chain strategies.

Specific Asian Supply Chain services provided by our Alaris Asia team include:

• Performing top level analysis of distribution considerations and related operational and cost issues
• Developing decision matrices for sourcing and/or manufacturing, including geographic location, structure, and qualifications of potential manufacturing sources/partners
• Developing and supporting the Implementation Roadmap
• Conducting international make-vs-buy analysis
• Optimizing logistics network
• Establishing China, India and other Asia based Procurement Offices
• Selecting and negotiating with sourcing/manufacturing partners
• Training domestic and expatriate teams in quality assurance (QA) and sourcing
• Providing recruiting assistance, including finding, screening, interviewing, negotiating, and basic training for hires
• Facilitating communications with Asian partners

International Procurement Organization (IPO)

Our Build-Transfer-Operate approach to developing an International Procurement Organization (IPO) combines our comprehensive Asian industry knowledge with a rapid implementation to support our clients’ accelerated ROI requirements. The flexibility of the IPO approach supports the addition of adjacent services, including; research, design / manufacturing engineering and distribution, as appropriate.