Services

WHAT CAN SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS MANAGEMENT DO FOR YOU?

Scientific Business Management (SBM) offers a variety of Operations Services to enhance your business. We are specialists in the following:

ASIAN VENDOR MANAGEMENT: Scientific Business Management can provide full service Asian Vendor Management for your organization. We can provide support on a consulting basis or can fully manage your Asian supply chain through our outsourcing services.

Our services include:

• Finding and qualifying new vendors for performance or capacity reasons
• Analyzing your total landed cost equation including, manufacturing, transportation, packaging, and warehousing / distribution costs
• Quality and/or delivery issue resolution
• Manufacturing Lead-time reduction
• New product development
• Miscellaneous project management at vendor locations

OPERATIONS CONSULTING: Along with our other more specific services, Scientific Business Management can provide general Operations Consulting. We can help analyze and improve most operations areas. Our expertise can evaluate your current practices and help your company understand, control, manage, and improve all areas of your operations.

Our services include:

• Business Strategy
• Organizational structure evaluation
• Supply Chain evaluation and optimization
• Distribution strategy and effectiveness
• Product strategy
• Project management

PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT: Scientific Business Management is able to analyze and improve manufacturing and distribution operations. We employ many process improvement techniques to improve overall productivity. We address quality concerns and lost production due to defects. These services can be performed at your facilities or those of your key suppliers, in order to improve your end-to-end supply chain and reduce your cost. This will allow your operations to be more competitive in the market.

Our services include:

• Evaluating production processes, manufacturing workstation and production floor layout, and material flow.
• Determining process capacities and bottleneck operations.
• Calculating, tracking, and establishing standard reports for cycle time and throughput.
• Improving setup time with Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) and productivity with Kaisen.
• Understanding lead times and determining opportunities for improvement.
• Implementing poka yoke and other process improvements to reduce quality defects.

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT: Scientific Business Management can provide a wide array of Inventory Management services for your organization. SBM can help to implement, in your organization, a replenishment inventory management system that will help you optimize your inventory investment while improving your customer service. We can support your efforts at any level from implementation and training so that your employees will run the system, to providing a monthly service that will evaluate and update the purchasing parameters, to a fully outsourced management option where SCM manages your inventory.

Our services include:

• Evaluating your forecasting systems and determining their effectiveness
• Analyzing your inventory levels by SKU to determine the proper level for each
• Calculating your ability to service customers and setting inventory levels to optimize
• Suggesting operational process improvements that can allow for inventory reductions
• Monthly system evaluation and update;Warehousing and material handling procedures.