Learn More About Us Strategic Advanced Technology partners with companies all over the world to revolutionize the way that they buy industrial technologies.
SAT exists to create a great place for talented professionals to intelligently solve the real problems our partners face. As a result, our partners benefit from the insights of an empowered group of people that make a living making the partner operation more profitable.
What We DoSAT is supplier agnostic and considers the global market in all of our sourcing decisions. Our experience and knowledge within the 'global' industrial technology supply chain allow us to secure the most profitable, reliable and risk-controlled buying options for our partners.
Tactical Sourcing Desk
Access to our Tactical Sourcing Desk is a market-leading solution for your spot-buy needs, all manner of tail spend items, and those particularly challenging purchases that are hard to find because the equipment is considered obsolete. Utilizing this desk is the ideal way to experience the difference that SAT can drive through your company.
Demand Chain Integration
Often following engagement with our Tactical Sourcing Desk, companies look to us to begin the process of managing the improvement of their planned purchases and those that are linked to demand-driven supply needs. Our ability to connect directly with your company and increase profitability and reliability will change the way you do business.
Risk Mitigation
Our focus on driving a competitive advantage through your company via intelligent buying of industrial technology starts with a thorough analysis of risk. Here we leverage our deep tissue awareness of specific current supply chain conditions, individual supplier conditions, and Lean Manufacturing and Lean Supply Chain techniques.
1. Accessing Our Tactical Sourcing Desk
Whilst SAT is best known for providing a competitive advantage to companies amongst their own peers through our Global Strategic Partners Program, we offer B2B buyers access to our tactical sourcing desk for spot buys. This is often the ideal way to see how SAT is changing the way that industrial technologies are bought in the global marketplace. Our tactical sourcing team is the best in the business at leveraging our supplier-agnostic approach to the global market. Regardless of whether the equipment is current, obsolete or even reconditioned, the desk will surface the best purchase options to maintain quality and reliability.
2. Connecting Lean To Strategic Buying
Inventory is one of the biggest of the seven wastes identified in Lean methodology and tends to occur when excess inventory is used to cushion the enterprise against process problems. When counting and analyzing inventory, it is not unusual to find pallets of items stored in odd locations due to previous problems or as a contingency. Critically, however, our experience tells us that often this padding is not only wasteful in a Lean Six Sigma sense, but often creates a perilous false sense of security. Our proprietary risk analysis based on our knowledge of the real metrics of the category supply chain, which can then guide a restructuring of your inventory strategy, will almost certainly bring the most direct short-term impact to your company from our partnership.
3. Creating A Demand-Driven Supply Chain
Our interpretation of the Demand-Driven Supply Chain focuses on better ways to capture the demand signal from the frontline solutions team. Our Kanban-inspired pull-through model allows us to satisfy the demand trigger for the specific item in multiple ways. The ultimate goal of being demand-driven is to ensure the best fulfillment of the specific need is met via the highest value channel. Performance metrics and incentives across the enterprise must be aligned so that everyone is marching in the same direction. The classic organizational structure, where logistics optimizes transportation costs and procurement primarily evaluates landed material cost, leaves considerable value on the table. Our demand-driven process encourages a focus on the end-to-end process and develops a balanced scorecard of metrics to achieve an overall competitive advantage.