Operations and Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 25, 2021

The container crisis affects all companies that need to ship goods. But analysts say the situation has a pronounced effect on e-commerce retailers that primarily offer consumer goods, many of which are made in China. “The lack of options, combined with this crazy amount of demand, has produced this crisis.”.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2022

During this unprecedented period of non-stop global supply chain disruption, the Supply Chain Matters blog provides readers with additional industry specific examples, along with their implications. In this update we highlight General Motors , Nike , and retailer Bed Bath and Beyond. General Motors. Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

The company claims that for one global consumer goods company the solution was making 12,000 recommendations in a month; 74% of those recommendations were auto accepted. If it is the same consumer goods company that I think it is, I saw their vice president of supply chain speak at a planning conference.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

These lower costs can then reduce the overall cost of consumer goods. which furthermore enables them to lower the costs for consumer goods. By some estimates, 65 percent of consumer goods are delivered using trucks. Initial steps toward self-driving trucks are in process.

Big Data 250

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

In consumer goods industries, better forecasting leads to lower fines from retailers for late or incomplete deliveries. Machine learning also makes it possible to make more granular forecasts – for example, instead of forecasting demand for the company’s products in the Eastern Region of the U.S., This increases sales.

Forecasting 189

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Roambee

APRIL 30, 2020

The following are real industry examples of why they are looking at visibility as the “air ticket” itself and not just as “insurance;” a switch from “nice-to-have” to “must-have.” However, COVID-19 is changing the way companies are looking at investment into visibility. Here’s how it used to be!

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Nulogy, for example, is a platform for collaboration between consumer goods brands and their copacker and comanufacturing partners. Chris Castle, the vice president of product management at Nulogy, said that collaboration in the consumer goods industry was more even handed than in industries like automotive.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

An example is a focus on moving and buying ventilators without an assessment of the availability of critical parts and skilled therapists. Another example is testing. What good is a test unit when there are not enough swabs or reagents? And, in consumer products industries, the latency of syndicated data is deadly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Meanwhile, supply shortages and price inflation are getting the front page in consumer-focused publications and plenty of airtime on televised news. Many consumers, including myself, become irritated by the sight of empty store shelves where our favorite consumer goods are typically stored. And rightfully so.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 31, 2023

What is an example of sustainable food? Shifts in consumer behavior are also changing due to increasing demand for healthy and sustainable foods. Health-conscious consumers seek products that are high in nutrients and low in calories, and F&B manufacturers are responding by introducing new products to cater to this trend.

Sourcing Strategies 156

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2023

Let me give you an example. The responsive volume can vary from 5-10% in consumer goods to 80-90% in agroscience. In Table 1, I share an example. The operating strategy–a major part of the supply chain strategy–flows from the business strategy. The operating strategy defines the flows of the supply chain.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 22, 2022

He is working with Microsoft, Accenture, and other partners to deliver a multi-tenant supply chain model that leverages data, the cloud, and shared pay-for-use robotics facilities, to allow consumer goods to reach customers next or same-day at the cost of standard delivery.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

”[2] Yes, consumers can be difficult to figure out. For example, a Chicory survey found, “BOPIS (buy online, pick up in-store) is the fastest growing and most popular method of fulfillment for online grocery shoppers.” In some ways, the grocery retailers share much in common with other retailers. It Didn’t. ”

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A turbulent climate for global supply cha in The world has had many more examples of classic supply chain bullwhips in a short time compared to any other time in recent history. Retailers across the world have surplus inventory of nearly every kind of consumer goods – clothing, electronics, housewares.

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EcoVadis

MAY 6, 2015

Also, EcoVadis congratulates our clients including Nestle, Henkel, Nokia, Bayer Healthcare, and Coca-Cola who contributed many of the case examples used in the study. For example: Revenue uplift of 5-20%; Supply chain cost reduction of 9-16%. A brand value increase of 15-30%. Reduce GHG’s by 13-22%. Significant company risk reduction.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

Kimberly-Clark is public consumer goods company that generated over $19 billion in revenues last year. This consumer goods behemoth has driven ongoing supply chain productivity through their FORCE (Focused On Reducing Costs Everywhere) program. Not surprisingly, many of FourKites’ users work in transportation operations.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2022

Lisa Johnston ( @thatljohnston ), Senior Editor at Consumer Goods Technology, writes, “Much has been written about the extreme shifts in consumer behavior patterns.”[2] 1] Michael Baudendistel, “ Consumer Data Shows Mixed Messages ,” FreightWaves, 23 November 2021. [2] ”[3].

Manufacturing Procurement 130

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Logility

JUNE 9, 2023

From film technology and graphics to materials and construction, consumer goods brands worldwide regard PPC as a high-stakes partner. No one wants to get a commitment on a delivery date or product performance, only to not receive it at the end of the day. So, we must stand behind what we say and commit to it.”

S&OP 188

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) presents special supply chain planning challenges for both smaller microbrands (e.g., eyeglass brand Warby Parker or mattress seller Casper) and much larger consumer goods incumbents, but the planning challenges are different depending on which type of company you are.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 6, 2020

Capacity, for example, needs to be reserved when additional production is required for best-selling items – something which becomes visible in such an analysis. Often, consumer goods are produced in wide varieties.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

If you take a big consumer goods company, you don’t need to just model products and customers,” o9’s CEO explained. For example, for a yogurt company, decision of where to ship a short lifecycle product coming out of a factory is done daily because “demand can shift in very short time frames.”

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

An initial estimate of this year’s retail holiday spending indicates a mixed bag, depending on either retail industry, consumer goods producer or logistics and transportation industry perspectives. Granted, anticipated delivery windows provided to consumers were somewhat padded, in case you were paying attention, as we were.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

In a recent FarEye webinar , an executive at Massmart, a Walmart-owned retailer and the second-largest distributor of consumer goods in Africa, talked about how you can’t assume bicycles can deliver across a whole city. There are roads that are safe for bikes, and roads that are not. The bike routes must be carefully mapped.

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TransAudit

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Supply chains at a consumer goods company, for example, make up about 80% of the company’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A circular supply chain does not see the consumer as the end user. For example, inventory turnover rates incentivize volume-based models rather than product durability.

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Alloy

AUGUST 10, 2021

For consumer goods brands, launching into new stores provides major opportunities, but also comes with major risks. In fact, 74% of consumers switched brands last year due to lack of product availability. We’ve even included a few examples of customers that we’ve helped successfully launch into new doors.

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SupplyPike

JUNE 15, 2020

Learn about: The definition of consumer packaged goods The types of CPGs What the CPG marketplace looks like Top trends in the CPG industry. Consumer packaged goods (CPG) describe merchandise that has to be reloaded frequently, as opposed to items that can be replenished after longer durations. Types of Consumer Goods.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For example, Tom Standage ( @tomstandage ), editor of The Economist ‘s ‘ The World in 2021 ‘, writes, “The adoption of new technological behaviors in response to the pandemic, from video-conferencing to online shopping, means usage has already reached levels that were not expected for many more years.”[1] ”[3]. Footnotes. [1]

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 26, 2020

Here’s a recent example of how DELMIA Quintiq enabled a large European retailer to efficiently respond to availability issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic: Recent developments have signaled that the time has come for retailers to take their supply chain agility to the next level.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

to This is an example of managing a balanced portfolio and of driving a supply chain revolution. This case study is the best example we have seen of a customer-centric supply chain. In China, for example, more than 40% of the company’s business through eCommerce. Consumers want fashion in their cosmetics. Growing Pains.

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My Office Apps

JULY 19, 2023

Understanding Consumable Inventory Consumable inventory plays a crucial role in various businesses and industries. Common examples include office supplies, cleaning products, perishable goods , and medical disposables. Proper management of consumables ensures a smooth workflow, reduces waste, and keeps costs in check.

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Organizations procure a wide variety of consumables, goods and services to run their day-to-day operations. Some of the challenges arise from invoices being delayed or if advances had been paid – for example, insurance payments and subscriptions.

SAP 52

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 20, 2019

For example …. At this major consumer goods manufacturer, external market disruptions and internal changes (such as moving forecasting back and forth between Sales and Supply Chain) left them facing an array of demand planning process challenges.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 20, 2022

More than 80% of goods – by volume – are moved by ocean freight globally, so shipping costs directly impact the price level of imported goods. These same goods account for about 20% of the items measured in the Consumer Price Index, or CPI. Freight rates as a forward looking indicator of CPI.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2019

Examples include allocation, available-to-Promise, and transportation routing. The combination of technologies for track and trace (an example is ThinkIQ), 3D printing, robotics, and wearables improves flexibility in operations. Technologists will be under the gun to build planning value dashboards. Shifting Technology Taxonomies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2018

For example, for the period of 2010-2016, pharmaceutical company margins averaged 22%. In consumer goods, Wal-Mart and other large retailers drove bar code scan compliance using fines/penalties to drive improvement. To understand the chart, let me explain the format. The highest of any industry.)

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Most examples of warehouse robotics adoption in China are at operations in support of domestic consumption and these examples are predominantly consumer goods retail fulfillment operations.

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Bristlecone

JANUARY 15, 2021

Organizations procure a wide variety of consumables, goods and services to run their day-to-day operations. Some of the challenges arise from invoices being delayed or if advances had been paid – for example, insurance payments and subscriptions. Palle, Principal, Global Practices, DiSC Execution, Bristlecone.

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