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McDonald’s Mesoamérica Supply Chain Response to COVID-19

ToolsGroup

We have 135 restaurants, four distribution centers, and we also manage three manufacturing facilities, with more than 5,000 SKUs, and we deliver to each restaurant up to three times a week. If you do the math there, you have to make 748,000 inventory decisions per month. We don’t know what’s going to happen.

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Building A Guiding Coalition for Change

Supply Chain Shaman

The focus is on the last mile, but what about the first mile where Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) and Transportation Planning (TMS) operate on different data models with fixed, often outdated, parameters? Centers of excellence evolved in countries like Guatemala, Ecuador, Poland, Singapore, and China. Imagining The Future.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

And freight costs are continuing to rise, pushed upward by factors such as globalized distribution and unpredictable fuel prices. To anticipate and respond to high customer demand, a modern Transportation Management System (TMS) needs to optimize inventory allocation. French Guiana. French Polynesia. French Southern Territories.