Utility Week

UTILITY WEEK | 15TH - 21ST MARCH 2019 | 25 Operations & Assets hopes will in uence how future developments can contribute to meeting the challenge of supply- ing growing populations with water without having an impact on the environment. The water rm has developed the plans in consultation with the local community, the feed- back from which has prompted it to include shared recreation spaces and sustainable trans- port routes to encourage walk- ing and cycling through the site. If you have an asset or project you would like to see featured in this slot, email: paulnewton@ fav-house.com. T he ability to have control of your end-to- end supply chain has never been more important in the utilities sector, with increased pressure to reduce cost, improve e ciencies and provide outstanding levels of customer satisfaction now being an industry must. In addition to the requirement to provide a• ordability, high levels of resilience and ongoing levels of innovation, the utilities sector is being tasked with delivering transformation like never before. E• ectively managing your supply chain and controlling all associated variable costs presents a unique opportunity to deliver market-leading services, which drive signi cant e ciency gains and substantial cost bene ts. It is still commonplace for many utility companies to use an in-house service provision. Typically this leads to outdated methods, which miss the opportunities that exist at the forefront of supply chain and logistics innovation. Wouldn't it be better for your eld engineer productivity if your engineers didn't have to visit stores or depots and the product was delivered direct to your engineer's van or to a location very close to their home address? Wouldn't it be bene cial if you had total visibility of every piece of product and stock across your entire business network, knowing exactly what stock is in the engineer's van and what stock is in all your depots, and having this controlled centrally rather than regionally? What if all these products were underpinned by EXPERT VIEW SCOTT BAIRSTOW, TVS SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS External expertise can give you total control of your supply chain accurate data and management information reporting to allow your teams to control and monitor spend and usage, thus enabling highly accurate demand forecast planning to ensure your inventory was optimally controlled maximising stock availability, while minimising levels of inventory? At TVS Supply Chain Solutions we are working with a number of utilities clients to deliver these solutions and impart best practice. We utilise bespoke in-house IT capability to underpin the supply chain and procurement services that we provide in order to deliver market-leading levels of innovation, thus creating transformation in supply chain and logistics performance. We draw best practice and proven capability from our long-standing operations in the automotive, defence and beverage sectors where "lean methodology" and year-on-year e ciency performance have been pre requisites for many years. The pressure to change has never been greater in the utilities sector and those companies who move quickly and respond to these changes will be at the forefront of their sector for years to come. Scott Bairstow, Business Development Manager, Utilities, TVS Supply Chain Solutions For more information visit: www. tvsscs.com/our-sectors/utilities or contact Scott Bairstow at: scott.bairstow@tvsscs.com; tel: +44 (0) 7407 097 599

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