Foundation Technology Services is a partner with leading Supply Chain Management solutions vendors, to provide the tools, the vision, the experience and the resources to capitalize Supply Chain strategies for customers.

Foundation's Supply Chain Management Practice offers the expertise to bring your e-commerce and Supply Chain solutions into the next century. To find out how, make use of our free workshop.

• Capitalized Strategies
• eBusiness Capitalization
• Customer Fulfillment, Forecasting and Demand Management
• Manufacturing, Advanced Planning and Scheduling
• Distribution Planning and Transportation Logistics
• IT and Business Management Support Services

Every day, a worldwide network of information sharing, strategic decisions and critical actions meshes gears around you. In this global decision network, "Supply Chain Management" takes on whole new dimensions.

Manufacturers serving thousands of customers, each with customers of their own. Dealing with a world of suppliers, each with suppliers of their own. All surrounded by a universe of competitors.

The winners will best capitalize on their supply chain strategies.

Our goal at Foundation Technology Supply Chain Management Services is to help you maximize ROI throughout your supply chain. This will be accomplished by capitalizing, or taking full advantage of, key supply chain control arenas:

• Helping you build exceptional partnerships with your customers, via excellence in service and competitive pricing. This will influence them to think of you first, and buy from you first.
• Optimizing throughput of your manufacturing resources, achieving high utilization cycles while driving inventories lower. This will have an enormous impact on manufacturing profitability, at the same time freeing your resources to further improve customer partnerships.
• Developing synergistic relationships with your suppliers, where both parties profit from efficient supply-and-demand planning. Again, at this level, costs are lowered, profits increased.
• Tightly integrated distribution and transportation logistics systems that economize on inventory replenishment requirements, packing and shipping expenses by analyzing and solving distribution equations in a global context.
• Superiority in communication and information technologies, taking advantage of innovative data management, telecommunications, internet and electronic information sharing.

Each of these arenas can be capitalized, or driven to deliver the greatest benefit, to your organization. This is accomplished by negotiating a shared plan for success with your supply chain partners, arming your functional teams with best-of-class information systems, and developing a core of proactive tactics to carry the plan forward.

Capitalized strategies maximize your global knowledge base, your competitive edge and your financial returns. Properly conceived and executed, they offer the opportunity for almost limitless success in the marketplace.

Foundation Technology Services is proud to partner with leading Supply Chain Management solutions vendors to provide the tools, the vision, the experience and the resources to capitalize these strategies for you.

Foundation Technology Services has the global presence, financial optimization expertise and web technology alliances to bring a whole new dimension to your internet strategy, developing it as the backbone for supply chain communications and transaction management:

• Web-enabled Sales order and material purchasing processing
• Optimization of multi-layered transportation and distribution networks
• Planning and financial solving for dynamically linked manufacturing operations
• Advanced sales management via regional and global linkages
• Financial optimization of trading partnerships: per transaction, per relationship
• Shared sales forecasting: by region, channel, product line, customer
• Available to promise sales and shipment confirmation
• Real-time order fulfillment and shipment tracking
• Collaborative knowledge management; between business units, between trade partners
• Business intelligence, OLAP, sales traffic analysis
• Specialized one-to-one customer and product marketing
• Compressed time-to-market of new products
• Deepened customer loyalty and retention

Foundation Technology's Capitalized Strategies solution helps you influence the customer to think of you first and buy from you first. It's all about gaining, and then holding, preferred positioning in the mind of the buyer.

Foundation helps you stay ahead of the game by satisfying existing customers, and optimizing critical resources to find and service new ones:

Quality customer fulfillment for business already "in the pipeline." Basically stated, customers will favor you over the competition as you make each purchase more satisfying, more valuable, and easier to complete. But each transaction has the potential to either improve or diminish your standing with them. Foundation helps you deliver highly customized products and specialized services to each of your customers, ensuring your competitive advantage:

• Real-time available-to-promise sales quoting
• Rapid order fulfillment: strategic positioning and delivery of products and component inventories
• Rapid product customization capabilities
• Customized production, packaging and shipping mixes
• Ease of transaction handling
• Competitive pricing, derived from a more efficient Supply Chain

Advanced Forecasting and Demand Management systems for predicting new market and production demand. Forecasts are never 100% accurate; nevertheless, even a minor improvement in their accuracy can multiply into millions of dollars in inventory and material savings. Production and distribution can be geared to smaller quantities, creating a more agile, responsive organization. Foundation brings new, global dimensions to Forecasting, Demand Management and Customer Relationship Management:

• Multi-dimensional sales forecasting: by global territory, division, channel, product/brand, customer
• Shared requirements forecasting with customers and supplier trading partners
• On-line forecast fulfillment tracking and adjustment
• Advanced executive analysis, management reporting and data mining solutions

You may oversee factory operations across several continents, or a single plant in your hometown. In either case, you're responsible for a workforce on a healthy payroll, finished goods that need to be sold into a market of ever-shrinking product life cycles, a continual stream of supplier components, and WIP inventory that ties up real cash.

The manufacturing floor is where all of the market projections and financial prognostications come to life, and the slightest course correction will multiply into millions of dollars.

Foundation provides experienced practitioners in engineering, operations research, financial modeling and systems implementation to help you optimize manufacturing operations. We provide the knowledge and perspective to keep production strategies focused, balanced, and targeted toward the bottom line:

• Synergistic supplier relationships: valuing and apportioning trade partner alternatives
• Long-term facilities, capital equipment and labor planning
• Strategic market share and product life cycle analysis
• Manufacturing process design and deployment

• Optimizing production planning quarter-by-quarter
• Dynamically linked multiple site, interplant, feeder plant, subcontract decision analysis
• Tightening incoming material, WIP and finished goods inventory turns against intermediate-term market demand.

• Immediate-term manufacturing cycle reduction
• Finite capacity scheduling; by machine, by operator, hour-by-hour
• Rapid simulation analysis
• Material flow optimization

It's a classic quandary. The customer wants exactly his or her style, size and color of your product, available immediately when the purchase impulse strikes. But you can't keep your warehouses stocked to the rafters, covering every consumer whim.

The problem is expensive enough for a local mom-and-pop store. In a global decision network, your money is flowing through distribution centers, customer outlets, a fleet of trucks and container facilities and an army of logistics people.

And your customer service record depends on all of this running smoothly, all of the time.

Foundation provides mission-critical expertise in distribution and transportation logistics to keep your product pipeline finely tuned, cash flowing in the right direction and customer satisfaction at an all-time high. We have implemented resource and distribution management systems for clients in twenty countries.

• Global, corporate-wide, vertically synchronized distribution planning
• Solving cost vs. efficiency
• Transport consolidation and matrix analysis
• Routing, hub and pool optimization
• Capacity, weight and duration decision matrices
• EDI(tm) & VMI(tm) feedback analysis & replenishment planning
• Customer-specific shipping and carrier configuration
• Customized packaging, product mix and kitting solutions

How do you optimize a never-ending crescendo of data, a worldwide mosaic of sales, manufacturing, purchasing, distribution, financials, customs and currency handling operations?

Foundation Technology Services brings several thousand years of combined experience to the challenge. We handle banking, insurance, healthcare and government services financials and human resources throughout Asia and the Pacific. Retail distribution resources across the U.S. Computer systems logistics in Europe and India.

Contact our IT support team to explore your specific needs. We'll show you how our Go Live action approach builds an expandable solution for the dynamic needs of web-enabled IT management:

• Supply Chain Needs Analysis
• Business case and business practices consultation
• Systems consulting and implementation services
• Knowledge management and collaboration; business intelligence
• User training and system maintenance
• Advanced intranet/extranet design and deployment; traffic analysis and security
• Customization of legacy systems, developed and supported by a single vendor
• Interfaces to ERP, EDITM/VMITM, commerce, shop floor and other external systems
• OLAP, custom reports and executive analysis tools
• Y2K remediation services

A Free Workshop from Foundation Technology Services

Manufacturers, distributors and their trading partners face tremendous changes as Web-enabled Supply Chain systems take control of the marketplace. In the Internet age, Supply Chains have the power to create electronic gateways through the heart of your sales territory, but also through that of your competitors! Foundation's Supply Chain Management Practice offers the expertise to bring your e-commerce and Supply Chain solutions into the next century.

Learn how to collaborate with your trading partners for success in this new era, by making use of our free of charge half-day workshop, which we will conduct at your site. The workshop will cover the following areas:

• Supply Chain Management: New Definitions & Performance Standards
• Customer Fulfillment, Forecasting & Collaborative Management
• Manufacturing Management: Advanced Planning & Scheduling
• e-Procurement: Managing Suppliers, and Your Supplier's Suppliers

Please contact us soon to schedule a workshop with your team.