Critical Path Management

Getting a product from the concept to delivery stage in today’s global sourcing environment is an increasingly complex and collaborative process involving multiple teams, suppliers, and partners. If these processes don’t come together at the right time and in the right order, bottlenecks occur, product quality is at risk, delivery dates are missed and additional costs are incurred. Status of the supply chain is typically held by different stake holders in emails and spreadsheets. Companies need a way to pull that  information together easily and in real time so they can make adjustments, shift resources and analyze their processes.

CORE’s CBX Critical Path Management is a unique dashboard tool that provides real time visibility into all the tasks involved in production. Executives and managers are able to view personalized rolled-up dashboards by department, project or season, and begin drilling down to red indicators to quickly act on potential risks in the supply chain. The tool allows individuals to focus attention on resolving critical tasks required to meet delivery schedules. CBXCritical Path receives status updates from different internal and external information sources. Retailers who rely on CBX Critical Path have more time to focus on business strategy and growth since the pains in their supply chain are alleviated.

Benefits:

• Decision making – Full visibility and analytical capability enables better decision making
• Improves lead times – Enables responsiveness to problems which result in improved lead times
• Early warning – Allows issues to be addressed before they escalate into problems
• Visibility – provides full real time visibility into status of brief, quotes,
• Time savings – Saves time spent on weekly “roll-up” sheets and other manual tasks
• Improved workflow – Choreograph flow of product lifecycle to internal departments and suppliers
• Improved KPI’s – Enables overall  supply chain performance improvement