Supply Chain
Our extensive infrastructure and established capacity spans air, sea and land transportation, warehousing, clearing, and forwarding, container operations and multi-modal transportation – ranging from complex warehousing and distribution projects to made-to-measure water, air and land transport, to end-to end supply chain solutions further enhanced with advanced information technology.
Our services in freight forwarding and custom clearance when handling your import/export shipments is seamless with offices across the East African coast, Dubai and Asia and alliances worldwide, we provide fast and quick services on very economical rates.
So no matter whether you require customs clearance, freight forwarding, transportation, warehousing or door-to-door delivery of your cargo, we ensure your shipments are delivered safely and on time using our integrated air, sea, and road networks.
Our other services include: Last mile logistics into remote sites; Site and location analysis; Local procurement of material, equipment, and food supplies; Goods consolidation and repacking; Load consolidation; Inventory control; International procurement; In-house or third party consulting services; and Sophisticated management and software solutions.
At SOMTECH, we oversee the delivery and distribution of goods. Whether that’s manufacturing, industrial & bulk logistics, retail logistics, online fulfillment, automotive logistics, special operations or consumer goods logistics - our dedicated and versatile management services are involved in the entire supply chain. With a huge number of satisfied clients you can be certain that we deliver a high level of capability in all of our operations whether that’s road transport, port operations, rail operations or contract logistics and warehousing. We make the process easy and effective whatever the scale of operation
Efficient, accurate warehouse and yard management is a challenge without the right tools. At SOMTECH, we offer a warehouse management system for warehousing or a yard management system for the yard, custom made to your needs.
The warehouse management system is critical to companies looking to have leaner and more agile operations. Whether it is a question of how much of an item you have in stock, if an order has been shipped or how many line items an employee has picked in the past hour, increased visibility gives your managers the ability to work smarter and more efficiently.
We also recognize that the yard can be seen as an extension of the warehouse, and the yard management system monitors where trailers or containers are, along with the load status of each trailer or container, helping customers avoid costly detention charges. The Yard Management service enables you to plan, execute, track, and audit loads based on critical characteristics like shipment type, load configuration, labor requirements, and dock and warehouse capacity.
One of the laws of supply of goods to a market is that companies hold enough inventories to satisfy customer demand, without holding too much. So intuitively, just the right quantities of inventory to satisfy demand will minimize cost. However, when dealing with thousands of stock the art of balancing demand with supply is intricate. It becomes even more complex when multiple storage facilities are used, and customer service times are short and/or varied according to criticality of products.
If your company has some of these inventory control related symptoms, it might be time for an inventory management review from SOMTECH:
- Too much working capital invested in inventory
- Too much slow moving or obsolete inventory
- Customer service failures and back orders due to lack of the correct inventory
- Poor on shelf availability
- Warehouses crammed to the rafters… with the wrong inventory
- Lots of inter branch / warehouse transfers to get the right inventory in the right place
At SOMTECH, we can make inventory control improvements easily without resorting to a large investment in people and inventory management systems.
The success of a supply chain is often linked to its efficiency, which can be traced back to the ability of managers to conduct accurate forecasting when it comes revenue and inventory. Those two facets of a business are tied to a crucial process in the world of supply chain: demand planning.
In demand planning, our managers use analytics that examine historical sales data, customer orders, shipments, current sales and market indicators to better predict demand patterns based on market changes, enabling our clients to make smart decisions about inventory and production levels.
The SOMTECH supply chain is a proactive one. It is able to adapt to demand changes by eliminating bias and building systems that can sense and respond to demand volatility. It is designed from the outside-in and includes sensing channel demand, using optimization to actively shape demand and applying advanced analytics to drive an intelligent response, getting it into shape to analyze and creating a base demand forecast.
SOMTECH offers comprehensive supply chain data management solutions to enable effective decision-making and drive value across the supply chain lifecycle. Product, vendor, catalog, contract or logistics data, we deliver.
Our team has extensive experience in collecting and structuring data on supply programs for global businesses throughout a wide range of industries. We understand how to manage our customers’ data, distilling it into clear, accurate and actionable information that decision makers can rely on when managing operations and planning future improvements.
By making data the foundation of all our services and constantly tracking a range of key data points, we are able to provide both the transparency that businesses need throughout their operations to set attainable goals and reliably monitor progress towards them.
