Methodology

"Our mission is to help you achieve the maximum continuing return on investment for your business."

- Bill Houser, a Founding Member of the Advanced Supply Chain Institute

Tested Approach

Proven techniques are used, pilot conditions created to validate the concepts for a particular firm and its business and market conditions. Continued help is provided to companies seeking the next level of business process improvement. ASCI offers help in a variety of areas, including strategy and strategic leadership, strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management (SRM), partnering diagnostic laboratories (PDL), quality assurance and leadership, facilitated training, logistics improvement, customer relationship management (CRM), inventory management and control, supply chain assessments, and business process management (BPM) improvements.

Web Site Interface

This web site defines the many products and services available including strategic planning, the customized creation of awareness training sessions, and improvement techniques matched to company capabilities and position on the supply chain evolution. Through the Advanced Supply Chain Management Workbook, diagnostics are provided that help a firm determine its current position on that evolution and the value for making further progress. A special service includes determining the ability of the firm to collaborate with network partners, and how able it is to share technology to gain the high ground in a marketplace.

Contemporary Methodology

Collaboration and technology across the extended enterprise are the new tools making the difference in supply chain performance. But they must be applied against the framework recommended and detailed in the Advanced Supply Chain Management Workbook, which can be ordered from the Advanced Supply Chain Institute. Application of these tools leads to optimized conditions, and beyond, including being part of a networked enterprise that dominates a market or industry. ASCI has the capability to help any firm along that progression path.