Supply chain strategy
When designing a supply chain, companies are faced with a variety of strategic decisions, such as whether to go with centralized or decentralized production and inventory management, or insourcing and outsourcing.
4flow supports businesses with supply chain strategy development. Customer requirements are optimally harmonized through supply chain design, which results in a decisive competitive advantage.
Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are often an integral part of a successful growth strategy. Synergy potentials offer the opportunity to reduce a portion of the costs and make business more profitable. Yet, what sounds so simple proves complex and expensive to implement. Organizations and their processes must be brought together, their systems integrated, and their value chains unified.
4flow helps companies identify the synergy potentials of a merger. The focus here is on value chains and the supply chain, from both a physical and organizational perspective. 4flow also supports with the operational implementation afterwards.
Supply chain segmentation
Global supply chains, specificity, diversified product portfolios, digitization and disruptive innovations are creating more and more complexity in supply chains. Such complexity cannot be quelled with a "one-size-fits-all" approach. By segmenting the supply chain, however, the complexity can be mastered.
Through a tried-and-tested approach to supply chain segmentation, 4flow creates specific and cost-optimized processes while adapting to the market environment, risk profile and technology landscape. Our project experience shows that this can significantly reduce supply chain costs while increasing customer satisfaction.
Business development
4flow supports customers in the field of business development – drawing on many years of cross-disciplinary experience in logistics and supply chain management, 4flow applies its expertise across a broad portfolio of business areas as well as their requirements and cost structures. As a result, customers realize benefits including the establishment of new, sustainable customer groups and revenue streams, as well as the selection and implementation of new business areas for logistics service providers for the long term.
Change management
Developing and introducing new processes, structures, and methods require changes to how employees usually do things. An end-to-end approach involving all key people is vital to successfully implemented change projects.
With 4flow’s proven solution-finding approach, acceptance in the organization for the new processes is created and ensures implementation. Changes are supported in all project phases thanks to appropriate communication activities about the progress of the project.
E-commerce and omni-channel
Digitization is constantly changing customers’ shopping habits as well as their expectations about the range of goods and services offered. Companies with business models based solely on e-commerce require perfectly functioning supply chains in order to manage growth, maintain the perfect customer experience and keep costs under control. For companies entering this dynamic market environment and expanding their business models to include e-commerce, it is important to understand the supply chain requirements of new distribution channels in order to take advantage of the synergies of traditional and Internet-based sales channels.
With a holistic fulfillment approach that has been successfully applied in countless customer projects, 4flow supports the development of an adaptive supply chain strategy and enables both omni-channel and online pure players to realize significant cost savings at all points along the value chain.