Supply Chain Management
A seamless supply chain that includes built-in contingencies for receiving, manufacturing, and delivering products is crucial to your company’s overall success and profitability. Streamlining that process, ensuring its regulatory compliance, and guarding against its interruption can challenge even the most innovative business leader or supply chain manager. This requires optimal quality assurance, price protection, risk assessment, compliance management, reputational guidance, and tax structures. At the same time, you need to prepare from the outset for challenges like disagreements with trading partners, distressed suppliers, or unstable customers.
The Supply Chain Management group of legal professionals have decades of experience in high-stakes negotiations, sophisticated commercial contracts, and designing effective procurement and supply chain legal solutions. Our cross-disciplinary team analyzes the supply chain and we have the experience to direct clients to form and implement effective procurement and supply chain strategies.
Legal services we provide clients in Supply Chain Management includes:
- Business structuring and tax planning
- Bankruptcy and creditors’ rights
- Corporate and business litigation
- Construction contracts and leasing, and contract and lease review
- Consumer protection claims and consumer class actions
- Corporate transactions such as mergers and acquisitions
- Employment and labor issues
- Environmental due diligence
- Export controls and trade compliance
- General liability and casualty
- Information technology and business process outsourcing
- Intellectual privacy, data security, and cybersecurity compliance and contracts
- Insurance law, including coverage
- Logistics arrangements
- Service relationships and metrics to measure and improve performance
Our Supply Chain team unites our deep global experience in all relevant areas to craft a holistic and custom solution just for you. We will guide you through the challenges of cross-jurisdictional, multi-disciplinary, and industry-specific supply chain issues – anywhere in the world. And should some disruptions come your way, our seasoned litigators and crisis managers are there to offer critical advice. Through our Supply Chain Support Group, we are able to provide you always with the most suitable experts for your industry and your supply chain subdivision.
Brach Eichler provides lawyers with experience in every aspect of procuring goods and services from vendors, managing supply chain risks, and getting products and services to customers. Every step in the supply chain is important, and failure at any step – whether strategy, documentation, or performance – can adversely impact business objectives.
We know that margins depend upon creative, sophisticated, and efficient procurement processes and contracts and that a company’s reputation is dependent upon bringing safe, high-quality products to the marketplace. We work to create efficiency and speed where possible, while successfully managing the significant risks that accompany buying goods and services, the development of new intellectual property with various providers, and manufacturing, transporting, and marketing products.
Our lawyers also proactively work to address distribution and supply chain issues before business decisions and disputes can lead to lawsuits. We understand the communication needed with distributors, vendors, and others to lessen the likelihood of litigation and to accomplish our clients’ goals quickly.
