Learn from Dell’s Director of Supply Chain Gentry Pate, Spend Matters’ Analyst Nick Heinzmann, and SourceDay’s very own CMO Sarah Moore as they discuss how to digitally transform the ‘first mile‘ of a supply chain.
Market forces and global trade trends are making supply chain operations increasingly complex. Organization in the first mile of your supply chain’s operations is essential. Nick covers a few of the crucial steps to ensure your supply chain is set up for success.
In the full webinar, Pate shares how his team adopted the steps above. By using SourceDay’s PO Collaboration tool to eliminate tactical tasks and proactively manage its supply chain, Dell’s investment paid off by improving supply chain efficiency.
As the director of a global services parts program, spanning more than 160+ countries and dispatching more than 12 million parts annually, Pate knows the challenges of managing complex and fragmented supply chains first hand. While auditing their PO process to understand how time was being spent, Dell found that their planning team was spending 58% of their total time on POs that amounted to less than 20% of the total budget. In order to become more efficient, Pate used SourceDay to automate the PO process for the low-cost parts.
Using SourceDay’s PO Collaboration tool and analytics, Dell was able to set minimum and maximum order volumes to reduce safety stock and automate nearly 90% of procurement for certain commodities. Some planners automated between 70-90% of their decks and shifted their attention from day to day tactical work to strategic planning.
This was the first step we needed to get to. Let’s get the busy work out of the way so we can move forward on our autonomous journey… We’re no longer looking at part-to-planner ratio, we’re looking at part-to-planner activites.
Genry Pate, Dell’s Director of Supply Chain
Learn more about Dell’s journey with SourceDay and how you can transform your supply chain.
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