Dell

COMPANY

Dell Inc., a leading global computer systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. Headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, United States.

CHALLENGE

With its plants working at maximum capacity and costs and inventory at high levels, Dell recognized the need to position itself to handle rapidly increasing volumes. The company also wanted to develop and stabilize key business processes that would lay a sustainable foundation for ongoing operations excellence.

WHY ABEAM?

Senior consultants with strong track records and experience in supply chain optimization and excellence

SOLUTION

• Developed and implemented a high-priority set of tactics for addressing immediate operational problems, while stabilizing and strengthening key operations functions
• Re-designed and implemented the core processes to set the foundation for an efficient and flexible high-velocity supply chain and manufacturing model
• Instituted scorecards for both customer and supplier performance visibility
• Established global-use forecasting tools for analysis by market, country and product family

REAL BENEFITS

• Dramatically reduced inventory days-of-supply
• Increased throughput among facilities
• Moved manufacturing model to a “lot size one” construct, enabling build-to-customer order
• Cut employee overtime
• Eliminated inventory shortages
• Virtually eradicated production line stoppages
• Significantly increased profitability and service levels through more efficient processes for customer fulfillment, inventory reduction, demand: supply matching