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Ascend to new heights of efficiency, profitability, and resilience with tailored supply chain optimizations.
Ascend to new heights of efficiency, profitability, and resilience with tailored supply chain optimizations.
Situation: Outsourced supply chain not meeting financial goals, Low Forecast accuracy, Missed customer commitments
Complication: Lack of visibility and control across a dis-aggregated supply chain.
Key Areas addressed:
Situation: Outsourced supply chain not meeting financial goals, Low Forecast accuracy, Missed customer commitments
Complication: Lack of visibility and control across a dis-aggregated supply chain.
Key Areas addressed:
Results: Installed new contract, put in control tower, improved financial performance by 11%, and customer delivery by 7%
Situation: VMI warehouses with limited visibility as to incoming orders, production status, and materials on hand/on order. This made their supply chain slow to respond to orders and changes.
Complication: Multiple VMI warehouses, outsourcing partners and systems.
Key Areas addressed:
Situation: VMI warehouses with limited visibility as to incoming orders, production status, and materials on hand/on order. This made their supply chain slow to respond to orders and changes.
Complication: Multiple VMI warehouses, outsourcing partners and systems.
Key Areas addressed:
Results: Increase data availability to the Cloud Service Provider/VMI warehouses, decreased the amount of effort at the warehouse providers by 21%, increased quality, and timeliness of data
Situation: The client manufactures automated systems on a build-to-order basis that store, tracks, and replenish medications and specialty suppliers, and technologies for verifying and administer dosages.
Complication: Explosive growth and multiple (14) systems used for ordering, manufacturing and shipping products.
Situation: The client manufactures automated systems on a build-to-order basis that store, tracks, and replenish medications and specialty suppliers, and technologies for verifying and administer dosages.
Complication: Explosive growth and multiple (14) systems used for ordering, manufacturing and shipping products.
Key Areas addressed:
Results: 20% reduction in the orders to bill cycle time, reduced the amount of systems involved from 14 to 3, 20% reduction in DOS, 1.3 years payback on investment
David Douthit is a seasoned supply chain and operations executive with over 25 years of experience leading transformative initiatives across 25+ countries, consistently delivering optimized solutions in sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics. David's expertise lies in designing and implementing integrated strategies that enhance quality, efficiency, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.
David has a proven track record of spearheading multi-million-dollar engagements, from digitizing procurement processes to developing global supply chain visibility platforms. David's leadership experience spans executive roles at Accenture, IBM, Flextronics, and DHL, where he has consistently driven revenue growth, operational efficiency, and strategic realignment. David is passionate about mentoring teams, developing competitive benchmarks, and authoring thought leadership pieces on manufacturing outsourcing and reverse logistics. David's work has been recognized in industry-leading forums such as CES, and contribute to the advancement of supply chain practices globally.
As a Senior Partner at Ascend Supply Chain Consultants, I specialize in selective outsourcing and operational performance, leveraging AI and advanced technologies to drive business performance and innovation.
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