PROFESSIONAL UPDATING

Simco uses an increasingly growing share of the time of its Consultants (regulated by its Quality System) for the continuous professional updating, through the participation to masters, seminars, congresses, exhibitions and visiting significant realizations. Simco Consultants are also engaged in a systematical mutual comparison and exchange of experiences and are active in the development of the discipline by the continuous publication of the carried out studies.

NEW TOOLS

Supply Chain Management Software

The strategic function of the Supply Chain, besides carrying out in an efficient way the physical processes, shall be characterized by a precise entrepreneurial view about the service level to be rendered, which conditions the choices about what shall be managed and in which quantity, with the purpose of reducing costs to the minimum. This can be obtained only using a Supply Chain Management software. These products are extremely efficacious in establishing the right mix between stock and service level, starting from the capacity of rapidly foreseeing the sales trend with accuracy and in an unbundled way.

Dynamic Simulation

The improvement in the logistic/productive systems often requires the introduction of new operation practices and/or structured and expensive automation systems in a complex and dynamic working reality; the performances that can be obtained are difficult if not impossible to foresee beforehand, especially if the system shall also guarantee flexibility, stability and “solidity” in extreme cases. The performances of the different alternatives shall be carefully evaluated and compared in terms of global advantages: the dynamic simulation is a tool which can help carrying out these analyses in an efficient and accurate way. Its use is absolutely necessary as the complexity and the importance of the new system increase. The presence of analysts and logistic and production consultants within Simco team brings concreteness to the model development and a greater capacity to interpret results.

Lay out optimization software

The use of traditional methods to define the lay out of a factory or a department, evaluating the possible different alternatives, implies the risk of loosing sight of the best solution because of the high quantity of possible relations among all the activity centers and the consequent flow of information and materials. Simco looked for and found some valid application software programs, by developing at the same time the ability to use them, for the interactive evaluation of the department or factory lay out, also linked to the comparison with the internal logistic costs. These tools, together with the concreteness and experience of Simco specialists, allow optimizing choices before making strategic investments for the company future.

Tools to optimize distribution and transport network

The analysis of the present distribution structure allows checking its consistency in terms of costs and level of the offered service compared to an optimized transport plan and however consistent with the best prices on the market. Today, the optimization of distribution and transport activities can avail itself of the most advanced technologies and software programs which range from cartographic tools to satellite monitoring systems, always guaranteeing the best mileage and a real time reaction. These tools can be integrated with software programs and a study to define the best working procedures to optimize the loading of vehicles, in order to guarantee return on investment times consistent with the needs of company profitability. Our offer is completed with the support to the Customer in the evaluation of the convenience to outsource transport activities and the choice of the best partner.

Business Intelligence Software

Companies pay increasingly more attention to optimize and regulate processes both to obtain significant competitive advantages and to discover weak points. In order to optimize such an effort, an analysis method typical of the consulting companies as well as a technology able to fill the gap existing between the mass of data and their interpretation are necessary: software programs, able to aggregate the performance and cost data which already exist in the company and have them “speak”. Simco developed significant skills in the use of advanced OLAP tools having the purpose of studying and interpreting the performances of the different company areas (sales, finance, purchasing and logistics)