Supply Chain and Logistics Consulting

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Supply Chain and Logistics Consulting

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

Streamline and Optimize Your Supply Chain for Success in Canada

The impact of supply chain ecosystems on businesses across all industries is undeniable. The fragmented nature of these ecosystems, coupled with economic uncertainties and geopolitical pressures, has led to significant disruptions and inefficiencies. As companies grapple with supply chain shocks, delays, and rising costs, the importance of supply chain consulting and logistics expertise becomes increasingly evident. Valenta, a leading supply chain consulting firm, is here to support you in overcoming these challenges.

Who Benefits from Supply Chain Consulting

Whether you're an e-commerce startup, an established manufacturer, distributor, or retailer, we offer comprehensive solutions to optimize your supply chain and logistics operations. Our supply chain consulting brings significant benefits to a wide range of organizations in Canada, including:
  • Manufacturers : Enhance production efficiency, optimize inventory control, and cultivate strategic supplier partnerships to drive business growth.
  • E-commerce businesses : Accelerate order processing, streamline inventory management, and implement effective last-mile delivery solutions to meet customer demands.
  • Transportation companies : Optimize route planning, streamline fleet management, and leverage advanced technologies for improved operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
  • Distributors and retailers : Maximize inventory utilization, enhance warehouse operations, and streamline order fulfillment processes to deliver exceptional customer experiences.
  • Freight forwarders, wholesalers, 3PLs/4PLs, and customs brokers : Harness valuable insights to optimize operations, elevate customer service standards, and ensure regulatory compliance for seamless logistics management.

Valenta's Supply Chain Consulting Expertise

At Valenta, we have Managing Partners and consultants who possess in-depth knowledge and understanding of the Canadian supply chain landscape. We offer a range of services, from implementing best practices and process optimization to intelligent automation, virtual staffing, and managed services. Our focus areas include strategic sourcing and procurement, supplier management, third-party logistics, inventory optimization, working capital management, talent retention, service level improvement, and customer base expansion. We recognize the importance of aligning your digital strategy with your business and supply chain strategies, guiding you through the shift towards digital-first supply chains that are connected, predictive, autonomous, and insightful.

Valenta's Approach to Supply Chain Consulting

Our approach revolves around achieving real-time, end-to-end visibility of your entire supply chain, ensuring business continuity through comprehensive planning, testing, and execution. By investing in cutting-edge technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain, we automate operations and drive efficiency. We help you reduce operating costs, diversify and optimize your supplier base, right-size your workforce, and nurture key talent, empowering your supply chain and logistics functions for sustained success.

Unlock the Potential of Your Supply Chain with Valenta

Contact Valenta to unlock the full potential of your supply chain in Canada. Our expertise spans across businesses of all sizes and industries, enabling seamless operations, cost savings, and enhanced customer satisfaction. We have local Managing Partners situated in cities across Canada, ready to assess your specific needs and requirements. Let us help you transform your supply chain and achieve sustainable growth.

Supply Chain Ecosystem

Important elements of supply chain ecosystem

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

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.

Which 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, the COVID-19 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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