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Our pioneering DSN Solutions Lab brings together the people, strategies and tools to design, model and test manufacturing supply chain solutions for improved performance, greater cost control and better risk management. In the Solutions Lab, you can cost-effectively test new approaches and build the business case for smarter decision-making without impacting your actual operations.

The Solution: An Innovation Lab for Your Supply Chains

DSN Solutions Lab engagements pay special attention to the business processes of assembling and coordinating distributed manufacturing environments. These often overlooked processes are the culprits of many challenges facing today’s distributed manufacturing environment.

Our supply chain experts use NCM Analysis™  to provide an objective, quantitative measure of communication, coordination and collaboration within the supply chain.  NCM Analysis™ quickly identifies crucial problem areas by assessing how more than 50 key information elements of technical data, demand, scheduling and production are shared and used throughout the supply chain. Feeding those results into supply chain models equips you to better evaluate a range of solutions.

We apply the NCM Analysis™ to multiple tiers of your supply chain, so that you get an entire picture that extends beyond just your immediate supplier. This expanded view helps identify and address challenges that typically can’t be seen today.

Leveraging Collaboration

Representatives from your supply chain participants are then assembled in the lab along with our supply chain experts.  The first step is gaining concurrence on the as-is model and the challenges facing all participants. Next, we lead the collaborative development of a solution that will create value for all involved. This approach yields more valuable insights while fostering faster adoption of the solutions.

Our team uses a variety of resources to help you develop the solution, including modeling and simulation, a comprehensive library of known commercial and government solutions and unique access to experts from academia, government and industry. The environment features state-of-the-art audio and visual to extend collaboration to remote participants over the web.

By orchestrating these resources and facilitating collaboration in a neutral environment, DSN Innovations helps you solve real-world supply chain challenges. Our approach not only reduces cost and time, it also mitigates risk by avoiding impact to your operations.

DSN Solutions Lab Benefits & Features

  • Make smarter solution decisions
  • Reduce total ownership cost
  • Increase solution adoption
  • Reduce supply chain risk
  • Design more effective supply chains

  • Use modeling and simulation to identify the impact of various solution options quickly and efficiently.
  • Involve suppliers in pinpointing challenges and collaborating on solutions.
  • Build a sound business case for the best solution with quantified data, including total costs and ROI.

  • Create views of the entire distributed manufacturing enterprise to discover new opportunities for improvement.
  • Expose and address the often overlooked business processes that drive up total cost.
  • Use greater awareness of supply chain participants and roles to create incentives for suppliers to contribute to cost savings.

  • Involve suppliers to create a sense of ownership while helping them solve some of their own business challenges.
  • Better identify and plan for organizational impacts before deploying the solution.
  • Evaluate adoption issues and their impact on ROI when making a selection on solutions.

  • War-game different scenarios to identify the cost and effort of reconfiguring or reconstituting a disrupted supply chain.
  • Identify and catalog the entire supply chain, so that all entities and their roles are known and monitored.
  • Quickly evaluate different supply chain risk mitigation strategies beyond the traditional inventory offsets.

  • Determine the optimum supply chain configuration to achieve a desired outcome, such as agility.
  • Evaluate how different sourcing options, such as order distribution, will impact supply chain performance.
  • Streamline business processes and manufacturing processes for greater efficiency.

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