Supply Chain optimization

A Supplier Network Developed and Curated for Excellence. You can count on Kem Krest to develop and execute a strategy essential to ensuring your supply chain’s success. As a supply chain consolidator, we become your company’s in-house commodity manager and handle demand planning, procurement, and inventory management. Kem Krest can take ownership of your inventory, freeing your resources to invest in your core competencies.

Kem Krest Supplier Quality Manual

Supply Chain Optimization CAPABILITIES

Supplier Development

Kem Krest develops and manages hundreds of suppliers and can identify those with new capabilities, MOQ flexibility, shorter lead times, and superior pricing structures.

Supplier Network

Kem Krest has a comprehensive supplier database and can identify alternative suppliers with specific capabilities whenever a product must be re-sourced.

Commodity Strategies

Kem Krest evaluates each program annually to create a commodity strategy. This strategy fosters an in-depth understanding of the entire supply base by commodity, assists in developing and executing a vision for running the commodity, and allows for quantified management of the supply base through performance metrics and cost controls.

Additional Capabilities

  • Procurement
  • Commodity Strategy
  • Inventory Management
  • Sourcing
  • Demand Planning
  • Product Launch
  • Inventory Ownership
  • Supplier Relationship Management
  • Accountability, Collaboration
  • Validation, Audits
  • Freight Management

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STRATEGIC SOURCING DRIVES SAVINGS

Learn how Kem Krest facilitated a supplier consolidation, securing up to 30-40% lower costs in key purchasing categories for a leading powersports company.

THE CHALLENGE: Reduce purchasing spend in key sourcing categories.
OUR APPROACH: Identify redundant suppliers and opportunities to consolidate vendors.
THE RESULT: Strategic sourcing alliance drives savings.

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STREAMLINING PROCESSES & PROPELLING EFFICIENCY

Learn how Kem Krest conducted a labor cost analysis to improve production process efficiency by 15% to 20%.

THE CHALLENGE: Refine workflows and optimize output.
OUR APPROACH: Identify wasteful processes to improve efficiency.
THE RESULT: Streamlined processes propelled efficiency.

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NEW PARTNERSHIP CREATES AUTOMATIC SAVINGS & INCREASES AFTERMARKET SALES

Discover how Kem Krest’s aftersales team ignited sales while strategic sourcing led to savings of $1.5 million.

THE CHALLENGE: Increasing costs negatively affect net earnings.
OUR APPROACH: Implementing a multi-level strategy for enhanced revenue and lower costs.
THE RESULT: Discovering opportunities to save money and increase revenue – a win-win!

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SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION

Unlock operational excellence and higher performance.

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GAINING SPEED TO MARKET

Learn how matching the perfect supplier to a job led to faster turnaround and cost savings.

THE CHALLENGE: A slow supplier delays a product release.
OUR APPROACH: Finding the right supplier for the job.
THE RESULT: Fast-tracking a new product release.

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TACKLING TARIFFS ON IMPORTED COMPONENTS

Learn how Kem Krest avoided fees and delays in the face of two complex tariffs.

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