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End to End Supply Chain: 7 Top Tips for Action Now!

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MARCH 29, 2022

In the Four Frequent Flaws series we have looked at the entire supply chain right up to the consumer shelf, i.e. the Enchange 6-Part Model. What can go wrong, what can go right, what can I change quickly? FMCG CEOs are asking what they can do now rather than wait months or years for transformational projects top kick in and deliver.

Supply Chain

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FMCG Reaching the Consumer Shelf: 4 Frequent Flaws to Avoid

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MARCH 23, 2022

Nearly there! The last step of the Enchange 6-part model when you finally get your product on the shelf. Actually, you do not do it yourself but you rely on Shane from the retailer back of store. How can you ensure Shane does an excellent job? We will find out below.

Modeling

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FMCG Warehousing: 4 Frequent Flaws to Avoid

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MARCH 10, 2022

Need a change in your supply chain performance now? One of the problems faced by senior leaders seeking performance improvement is that it all seems to take far too long. While transformational structural changes cannot be rushed, there are several initiatives you can consider to make rapid changes in your supply chain.

Warehousing

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FMCG Manufacturing: 4 Frequent Flaws to Avoid

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MARCH 1, 2022

One of the problems faced by senior leaders seeking performance improvement is that it all seems to take far too long. While structural changes cannot be rushed, there are many initiatives you can take to make changes in your supply chain.

Manufacturing

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FMCG Sourcing: 4 Frequent Flaws to Avoid

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Enchange Supply Chain House is available for those wishing to embark on a structured, medium-term journey towards Supply Chain excellence. What about those companies who need change now with no time to waste? What can they do to effect meaningful change sooner rather than later?

Sourcing

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FMCG Supply Chain Performance Measurement: Del-Boy Style.

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JULY 2, 2021

Performance monitoring Balanced Scorecards are invaluable in FMCG, Brewing and Coatings companies but they are also appropriate for any business leaders serious about improvement. Whatever your business size or product offering, you will benefit from such a scorecard by knowing exactly what is going well and where you can or need to improve.

Supply Chain Performance

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A Christmas story from the Enchange Supply Chain House

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Enchange Supply Chain House ; the one-stop shop for all of the elements you need to achieve FMCG supply chain excellence. In this article we take a seasonable look at a well-known Christmas story with a supply chain twist.

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FMCG SKU Proliferation: How this negatively affects cost and service

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Many SKUs sneak onto FMCG price lists when nobody is looking and this is far from facilitating constructive market development. Sales & Marketing colleagues prefer new launches to provide lengthy lists of SKUs; different fragrances, different sizes, different colours, different shapes, different claims etc.

S&OP

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S&OP: Flying and S&OP Engagement

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

AUGUST 13, 2021

For a long time the sky above our house has seen very few vapour trails as COVID kept thousands of flights grounded. I can see they are slowly but surely returning but would you want to fly, anyway? I wouldn't.

Supply and Demand

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FMCG Distribution: Producer & Distributor Route Planning Chaos

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JULY 23, 2021

As a general rule, buildings are usually numbered in a structured, sequential way. Numbering usually commences with building 1 at the end of the road which is closest to the city or town centre. Odd numbers on the left and even numbers on the right increase until the end of the road or where the road changes names.

Distribution

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FMCG Supply Chain Language - what do we really mean?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JULY 16, 2021

If you are being honest you have probably sat bored in an airport lounge waiting for your inevitably delayed flight and listened in on a nearby conversation. Go on, admit it! If the discussion topic on which you are eavesdropping is not one with which you are familiar it can be as if you are listening to a foreign language.

Supply Chain

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Top 10 Tips to Build a Fully Functioning FMCG S&OP

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JULY 14, 2021

The Enchange Supply Chain House ; the one stop shop for all the elements you need to allow your supply chain to operate effectively. Now we take a deeper-dive look at what you need in place to obtain the best value from your overall Planning discipline.

S&OP

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Top 10 Tips to Build a Partnership Driven FMCG Sourcing Operation

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JULY 6, 2021

Recently, I introduced you to the Enchange Supply Chain House ; the one stop shop for all the elements you need to allow your supply chain to operate effectively. Now is the time to take a deeper-dive look at what you need in place to obtain the best value from your Source discipline.

Sourcing

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7 Building Blocks of FMCG Supply Chain Excellence – Raw Material to Consumer

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 28, 2021

The Enchange Supply Chain House is a simple and easy to understand reference model providing a clearly defined and proven understanding of your supply chain status and future potential.

Supply Chain

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Guide to FMCG Supply Chain – Strategy

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 22, 2021

Welcome to the Strategy edition of our FMCG supply chain guide. The related Source, Plan, Make, Deliver, Digital & HR overview articles can be found here. Each discipline is a key room in the Enchange Supply Chain House which provides a simple to follow guide for your supply chain improvement journey.

Sourcing Strategies

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Guide to FMCG Supply Chain – HR/People

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 16, 2021

Welcome to the HR or people edition of our FMCG supply chain guide. The related Source, Plan, Make, Deliver & Digital overview articles can be found here. Each discipline is a key room in the Enchange Supply Chain House which provides a guide to your supply chain improvement journey.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Guide to FMCG Supply Chain – Digital

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 9, 2021

Welcome to the Digital edition of our FMCG supply chain guide. The related Source, Plan, Make & Deliver overview articles can be found here. Each discipline is a key room in the Enchange Supply Chain House which provides a guide to your supply chain improvement journey. What, you do not do Digital?

Supply Chain Planning

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FMCG Deposit Return Scheme: An Introduction

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 1, 2021

A quick internet search revealed 129 examples where the initials DRS are used to describe something or a body or a process. While many are obscure, very obscure, two from the sporting arena and one from IT will be familiar to many readers.

Examples

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Guide to FMCG Supply Chain – Deliver Function

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MAY 26, 2021

Welcome to the Deliver edition of our FMCG supply chain guide. The related Source, Plan and Make overview articles can be found here. Each discipline is a key room in the Enchange Supply Chain House which provides a guide to your supply chain improvement journey.

Supply Chain Planning

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FMCG Transport: 4 Frequent Flaws to Avoid

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MARCH 16, 2022

Supply chains have had a torrid time over the last 2 years and just when you think COVID is dissipating, Putin kicks off!

Transportation

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Supply Chain Macbeth S&OP Soliloquy

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

APRIL 23, 2021

On 23 April we celebrate St George's Day and the birthday of William Shakespeare (also the date he died!). William wrote on many diverse subjects but here is one piece you will not find in a collection of his greatest works.

Supply and Demand

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FMCG Foods Turnaround: A successful S&OP Case Study

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

APRIL 21, 2021

I know, I know. I know I am prone to rattle on about Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) but seeing the benefits being delivered to previously struggling businesses is extremely motivating for a confirmed “techy” like myself.

S&OP

S&OP Supply and Demand Case Study Study

Do Spreadsheets Undermine Your ERP?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

APRIL 14, 2021

Despite what you may wish to believe the answer is almost certainly, yes. You have invested heavily in brand new ERP software and a similar investment in some smart, young consultancy people to run the implementation.

Supply Chain Software

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Supply Chain Communication, Gobbledygook & BS Bingo

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JULY 8, 2021

I recall laughing out loud when I was first exposed to FMCG BS Bingo – I leave you to work out what is meant by BS but as a hint you may step in it on a farm.

Supply Chain Design

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FMCG: Supply Chain Spring Clean

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MARCH 24, 2021

After the viral trials and tribulations of 2020, is the market going to get any better any time soon? Many big-name companies predicted/reported indifferent Q4 results and all offer caution about the continuing "difficult market conditions”.

Supply Chain

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FMCG: Time to review unnecessary roles and processes

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MARCH 17, 2021

I think we all agree that life will never be the same again after COVID-19 has dealt a stunning blow to humanity. While the horrendous death toll is a modern day calamity, the pandemic provides an unavoidable opportunity to do things differently both at home and at work, whatever your sector of interest.

Jordan

Jordan Supply Chain Supply and Demand

Guide to FMCG Supply Chain – Sourcing Function

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MAY 12, 2021

Recently, I introduced you to the Enchange Supply Chain House ; the one stop shop for all of the elements you need to allow your supply chain to operate effectively.

Sourcing

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Supply Chains: Post COVID Readiness

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MARCH 10, 2021

Fingers, toes and eyes crossed but it looks like there is some light at the end of the COVID 19 tunnel and it is not a train, hopefully. Getting back to normal is a top of mind desire for everyone but that normal will not be how we operated in 2019.

Supply Chain Planning

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Supply Chains: Do you use data or information?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MARCH 3, 2021

Who coined that irritating term “Big Data”? How did we get there without normal sized data, slightly larger data, chubby data and bordering on big data? People working in or associated with extended Supply Chains may seem obsessed by data yet data itself actually tells you nothing, absolutely nothing.

Data

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Extended Supply Chain - What do all those initials really mean?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Is it just me or does FMCG life seems to be increasingly full of initials? New examples seem to pop up on a weekly basis with COVID-19 being top of mind currently. In line with many business functions Supply Chain and other functions use multiple initials and/or acronyms to describe the various tasks they manage on a daily basis.

Supply Chain

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FMCG Leaders Guide to Supply Chain Excellence

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

APRIL 28, 2021

I mentioned in a recent article that my educational background is in chemistry but I stumbled into supply chain in the undulating sands of the Saudi Arabian desert.

Supply Chain

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FMCG Leaders Guide: Interactive Enchange Supply Chain House

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Enchange Supply Chain House ; the one-stop shop for all of the elements you need to achieve supply chain excellence.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Supply and Demand Jordan

FMCG Complexity Reduction - A Practical Guide

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

One of my Top 10 Supply Chain Improvement Resolutions for 2021 referred to SKU complexity and I recently discussed how that complexity negatively affects cost and service. With the discontinuity caused by COVID-19 many CEOs should be looking at leaner SKU portfolios but how do you approach this challenge?

Cost Reduction Strategies

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Top Ten COVID Intensive Care Recovery KPIs

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JANUARY 21, 2021

On a daily basis the amount of care we give to the human body is remarkably little. When you are feeling in good shape, the best the body can hope for is a good wash, a brush of the teeth and a slap of moisturiser. Haircut, skin peel and manicure perhaps oh, and possibly a check that your weight has not dropped 10% overnight – you wish!

Supply and Demand

Supply and Demand Cost Reduction Strategies Forecasting Demand Planning

Top 10 Tips to Effective Demand Execution in S&OP

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Enchange Supply Chain House ; the one-stop shop for the elements you need to achieve supply chain excellence.

Supply and Demand

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The Supply Chain Function - What’s That All About?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JANUARY 14, 2021

Ok, I admit it, I started my career as an R&D scientist-type developing FMCG products for the European and Middle Eastern markets. I was actually using my chemistry qualification in industry, which is an opportunity not everyone receives after graduation, so I enjoyed my job.

Pharmaceutical

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