Supply Chain and Logistics

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Supply Chain and Logistics

Digitally transform and optimize your supply chain operations through automation and artificial intelligence

Streamline and Optimize your Supply Chain

Supply chain ecosystems have a significant impact on businesses across all industries.  The fragmented nature of these ecosystems, combined with unpredictable economic challenges and geopolitical pressures, has created tremendous upheaval, disruptions, and inefficiencies.  As companies face supply chain shocks, delays, and increased costs, they realize the need for supply chain consulting and logistics expertise to stay competitive.  Valenta is a leading supply chain consulting firm.  We have Managing Partners and consultants that understand this space well.  We are here to help you overcome challenges related to supply chains and logistics. 

Who Benefits from Supply Chain Consulting

Whether you are an e-commerce startup or an established manufacturer, distributor, or retailer, we offer comprehensive solutions to optimize your supply chain and logistics operations.  Supply chain consulting brings significant benefits to a wide range of organizations.  Some common ones we see are below. 

  • Manufacturers can optimize production processes, improve inventory management, and enhance supplier relationships.
  • E-commerce businesses can streamline order fulfillment, improve inventory management, and implement efficient last-mile delivery solutions.
  • Transportation companies can optimize route planning, fleet management and leverage technology for improved efficiency.
  • Distributors and retailers benefit from optimized inventory management, efficient warehouse operations, and streamlined order fulfillment.
  • Freight forwarders, wholesalers, 3PLs/4PLs, and customs brokers gain insights for improved operations, enhanced customer service, and compliance.

Overall, supply chain consulting offers tailored solutions that drive operational excellence, cost savings, improved customer satisfaction, and sustainable growth for organizations across various sectors.

Valenta Supply Chain Consulting

From implementing best practices and process optimization to intelligent automation, virtual staffing, and managed services, … we have the expertise to transform your supply chain.  Our team focuses on key areas such as strategic sourcing and procurement, supplier management, third-party logistics, inventory optimization, working capital management, talent retention, service level improvement, and customer base expansion.  We understand the importance of aligning your digital strategy with your business and supply chain strategies, and we help you navigate the shift toward digital-first supply chains that are connected, predictive, autonomous, and insightful.

Streamline and Optimize your Supply Chain

The Valenta approach centers on achieving real-time, end-to-end visibility of your entire supply chain, ensuring business continuity through planning, testing, and execution. We invest in leading edge technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain to automate operations and drive efficiency. By reducing operating costs, diversifying, and optimizing your supplier base, right sizing your workforce, and nurturing key talent, we empower your supply chain and logistics functions for sustained success.

Contact Valenta to unlock the full potential of your supply chain. Our expertise spans across businesses of all sizes and industries, helping you achieve seamless operations, cost savings, and enhance customer satisfaction.  We have local Managing Partners in cities across the US and we also have Managing Partners with supply chain experience who are ready to assess your specific needs and requirements. 

Supply Chain Ecosystem

Important elements of supply chain ecosystem

Digital-First Supply Chains that are Connected, Predictive, Autonomous and Insightful are a Macro-Trend

The most successful supply chain organizations are
  • Accelerating their Digital Roadmaps
  • Investing in core infrastructure and cybersecurity foundations
  • Using Customer Experience and expectations to drive Digital-First design and transformation
  • Integrating increasingly democratized AI and ML into advanced planning and analytics disciplines

Align your Digital Strategy with your Business and Supply Chain Strategies

Valenta helps clients of all sizes and industries optimize their supply chains and streamline their logistics operations by focusing on these top priorities
  • Achieve real-time, end-to-end visibility of entire supply chain.
  • Business Continuity Planning, Testing and Execution.
  • Investment in technology to automate operations (RPA, ML, AI, IoT, Blockchain, etc.).
  • Reduce operating costs to ensure financial viability.
  • Diversify, near-shore and on-shore the supplier base.
  • Right-size the work-force.
  • Retain and develop key talent and improve labor skillsets throughout supply chain and logistics functions.

Customers We Serve

Manufacturer

Manufacturers

Computer screen with Ecommerce billing

Ecommerce

transportation ship

Transportation

distribution chain

Distributors

retailer

Retailers

freight moving

Freight Forwarders

wholesaler

Wholesalers

third party logistics services

3PLs/4PLs

brokerage sheet

Customs Brokers

Optimize your Supply chain Inventory, Transform your Warehouse

Optimize your Inventory Management, let information replace inventory

Finding and maintaining the optimal inventory levels is crucial to your business success and growth. Customers expect stock availability, when and where they want it. Stockouts could lead to lost sales and lost customers. On the other hand, excess inventory is nothing more than stagnant cash losing value over time. So, invest in information, NOT excess inventory.

If you have the right information, you can hold less inventory. For your inventory management, the right information must be accurate, complete, continuously updated in real-time, easily accessible, and quickly digestible.

Warehouse Management System (WMS)

selecting best warehouse system

An effective Warehouse Management System (WMS) is a crucial, integrated software control system that improves information and material flows and handling operations within a warehouse. These systems range from the most rudimentary to highly sophisticated offerings incorporating artificial intelligence and robotics. While a WMS is a vital investment, it can potentially be very costly if you have not researched carefully to achieve the desired return on our investment. When implemented effectively and maintained correctly, the right WMS fficiently manages information to achieve high levels of real-time visibility and control, nventory accuracy, throughput and superior customer service.

Build your Digital-First Supply Chain

Supply chains have been digitally transforming for years. Recent global events and the 2020 pandemic has put global supply chain networks under intense scrutiny, highlighted their weaknesses and flaws, and forced logistics providers to accelerate digital transformation efforts. Supply chain leaders must balance resilience with cost efficiency and prepare their networks for continuing disruptions

Valenta helps supply chain and logistics organizations thrive in today’s fast paced, competitive market with automation technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA), intelligent process automation (RPA + AI) and conversational AI.

By effectively implementing these and other cutting-edge solutions, Valenta enables logistics clients to effectively navigate the complexities of import/export operations and compliance, freight forwarding, shipping and receiving, warehousing, inventory management, transportation management and back-office functions conversational AI.

DATA EXTRACTION

data extraction and regulation

Replace cumbersome paper processes with OCR/AI-driven extraction technology to process bills of lading, customs and dangerous goods documents, advanced shipping notices, shipping labels, packing slips, etc.

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
Replace manual data entry

robotic process automation system

Manual data entry is tedious, time-consuming and prone to user input errors. RPA offers a vast array of benefits including defect elimination, real-time processing, and seamless transfer of data across different platforms or departments.

Conversational AI - 24/7/364
bot engagement

24/7 working robots

Automated omni-channel interactions (updates, alerts, etc.) in real time with suppliers, freight forwarders, carriers, 3PL partners, warehouse operators, last mile delivery firms and B2B/B2C customers.

Automated operating environment

process automation

Automated back-office integration of disparate data sources to harmonize purchasing, receiving, inventory management, order preparation, shipping, staffing, sales and finance.

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