Controlled Distribution
Controlled distribution solutions delivered by OpSec provide brand owners with visibility into their contract manufacturing operations. Brand owners can maintain product tracking from initial purchase through delivery.
As an enterprise-wide solution, your manufacturers and vendors can be consolidated under a single system with harmonized fulfillment processes and reporting. Our system’s flexible rules-based accounting allows the brand owner to gain visibility and institute accountability for every critical component throughout the supply chain. Furthermore, our software’s hosted model facilitates a quick and low-risk ramp up of control anywhere in the world.
Controlled distribution ensures each factory has the right number of critical components (e.g. authentication labels) on hand for every production run. It also allows you to match the number of components ordered, to the number of units used in finished goods and scrap. As a result, you know the exact component inventory for each factory. This establishes the baseline to conduct a meaningful physical inventory audit. You now know at what time, at what quantities, and at which factories excess components could have been diverted or used in overproduction.
Our software’s ASP model allows enterprise-wide, factory control to be quickly implemented with minimal changes to your IT infrastructure. If desired, OpSec can provide hosting and support. The controlled distribution system requires no integration or special hardware. Only a PC and Internet connection are needed to bring standardization, visibility, and control throughout your factories and vendors.
OpSec's Controlled Distribution Solutions:
- Our system’s secure web-interface becomes the gateway for all component orders to the distributor. Rogue ordering is eliminated.
- Orders are created automatically through manufacturing forecasts and your predefined business rules. Orders can also be created manually by factories with business rules verification or brand owner validation.
- Distributors use our controlled distribution system to pick, pack, ship, track, and report on every goods movement to the contract manufacturer.
- As factories produce and ship goods, the controlled distribution system reconciles the components in, components out, and components scrapped by the factory. Parallel physical audits prompt factory accountability.
- Through our system’s lookup and reporting capabilities, you gain visibility of factory component inventory, component usage overages/deficits, and other data that provide indicators of factory performance and suspicious activity.
