Remove Analysis Remove Consumer Goods Remove Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Remove Sourcing
article thumbnail

SanDisk’s Story of Customer Segmentation Strategies Using Inventory Postponement

Supply Chain Shaman

Source: Dictionary.com. How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” While they have actively worked on the implementation of a cost-to-serve analysis. Kehat’s feedback is that “Getting management buy-in for the implementation of cost-to-serve process is easy, but the implementation is difficult.”

article thumbnail

Further Details and Highlights- Logility’s Acquisition of Starboard Solutions

Supply Chain Matters

Starboard now has over 1400 users across 70 customers representing Auto, Consumer Goods, Retail, Industrial Products, Consulting, and Real Estate. Starboard Founder and President , Steve Johanson will lead a newly formed Center of Excellence within Logility.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Food Manufacturing Software Drives Profit [w Case Studies]

Unleashed

High levels of fresh and fast-moving consumer goods are common in the food manufacturing industry and inventory levels of raw material, in-progress and finished goods need to be effectively managed to reduce the holding costs of the inventory. Here are some reasons why you need to upgrade to better food inventory software.

article thumbnail

Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. Purchases in the center store of the grocery store are in decline, and apparel tastes are shifting. By building demand management processes to focus on channel movement, companies can cut demand latency and model independent demand–customer purchases.

article thumbnail

From Malls to Click-And-Collect: How Today’s Pace of Change Is Impacting Real Estate

Tompkins Blog

As rapid change takes place in online ordering and fulfillment for retail, consumer goods, distribution, and third-party logistics (3PLs), the needs for real estate space change too. Source: Kantar Retail Analysis. The growth of actual online sales from online purchases between 2012 and 2017 will only grow from 7.7%

article thumbnail

Partner Q+A: Anna Briggs of Settle on the future of finance and workflow for CPGs

crisp

Settle, a pioneering cash flow management company, and Crisp, a leading retail data platform, are setting a new standard for operational excellence in the consumer goods industry. What unique problems do consumer goods companies face that Settle aims to solve?

article thumbnail

Ultimate Guide To Technologies That Are Transforming Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Manufacturers can gather valuable granular data such as the time an item spent in storage, at what temperature, how long it took to sell, the length of time between purchase and fulfillment and how long it spent in transport. According to McKinsey & Company, 65% of consumable goods in the U.S. are transported by truck.