Improving Supply Chain Management in an Integrated Planning Centre

Abstract

Currently supply chain management in a large company is an extremely complex undertaking. In order to remain competitive in global markets, companies are improving their product flow management processes, and the emphasis on streamlining logistics activities in order to reduce time and minimize supply chain costs is crucial in this area. Customers want to receive the ordered goods as soon as possible, so the flexibility of supply chains and their responsiveness to market demand should be as high as possible. The article analyses an integrated planning centre of one of the leading food producers. The planning centre manages the supply chain in the "End2End" model, i.e. from sending the expected demand for components needed for production, through production planning, to the delivery of the final product to the market for the customer. At the same time the centre manages not only the parent company's entities, but also cooperates with partners by integrating individual entities in the supply chain. The proposed improvements will pertain to the broadly understood subject of the flow of goods and information through ERP systems. The area of improvements included management processes in the supply chain of a manufacturing company, in order to improve its internal processes and increase the efficiency of operations.