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Case Saarioinen: Improving Processes All the Way from Production to the Consumers

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By optimizing its planning process, its goal is to match the purchase of raw materials and production to forecasted demand from all of its customer segments: retail, wholesale, food service, and industrial customers. Factories 3 in Finland + 1 subsidiary in Estonia. Employees 1325 (2016). No of SKUs About 900 active products.

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Major organisational and cultural changes lie ahead for SCM

Supply Chain Movement

The real challenge lies not in tools or technology, but rather in human behaviour. The trends of increasing urbanisation and digitisation were covered extensively several times during the Logy Conference in Helsinki, Finland. S&OP and omnichannel supply chains are demanding new analytical skills.

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Case Hankkija: Full-service Agricultural Store Chain Transforms Its Procurement Process

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Case Hankkija: Full-service Agricultural Store Chain Transforms Its Procurement Process. In 2014 Finland’s leading retailer, S Group, sold Hankkija, the country’s premier agricultural store chain to the Danish Agro Group. Finlands premier agricultural store chain. Insights » Case Studies. Introduction.