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Jordan sees major fall in tenders for grain imports
Logistics Middle East
DECEMBER 6, 2015
Tougher grain tender terms put Jordan's wheat supply chain under pressure as international suppliers shy away from higher risks and costs
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FMCG ERP and The Beatles.? Spreadsheets cause damage.
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JULY 4, 2018
Dave Jordan CEO Pharma ERP/SAP Supply Chain Forecasting & Demand Planning ERPSome time ago I wrote about the way spreadsheets were undermining expensively assembled ERP’s in FMCG, Brewing and Pharmaceutical companies. They still are, by the way.
Santa & Opening Presents - S&OP Putting Elves in their place
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Dear Mr. K Ite, Christmas Dave Jordan Supply Chain S&OP Forecasting & Demand Planning
FMCG Supply Chains – The most important roles?
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
AUGUST 9, 2018
FMCG Dave Jordan Supply ChainI am often asked which job in the extended Supply Chain is the most important. For FMCG producers this may be the demand planner while for retail partners the key role could be innovation planning. I do have a view on this so park the question for now and read on.
Manage Supply Chain Expectations with Service Level Agreements (SLA)
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JULY 11, 2018
FMCG Route to Market Logistics Service Provider Dave Jordan Performance Improvement Supply Chain CEE Traditional Trade Logistics Management
Improve Manufacturing Performance with Total Productive Maintenance
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
AUGUST 23, 2018
FMCG Dave Jordan Performance Improvement Manufacturing Footprint Supply Chain S&OP Cost ReductionWhen I first came across Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) I was sceptical of yet another ”blue sky” approach to pursuing manufacturing excellence.
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FMCG cost savings versus sales & marketing budgets!
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
AUGUST 13, 2018
FMCG Dave Jordan CEO Pharma Supply Chain Traditional Trade Cost ReductionThere is your dilemma. You need to save cash towards an expensive year-end holiday but you really do not know the best place from where to take the money.
Supply Chain, Supply Chain: What’s That All About?
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
AUGUST 22, 2018
FMCG Dave Jordan Pharma Supply Chain Forecasting & Demand PlanningI started my career as an R&D type who helped bring new FMCG products to the market. Nobody really knew how a product made the transition from bench top and pilot plant testing to the supermarket shelves.
FMCG & Pharma: Top 10 Tips for a Tip Top Supply Chain
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JULY 16, 2018
FMCG Route to Market Logistics Service Provider Dave Jordan CEO Performance Improvement Pharma KPI Traditional Trade S&OP Cost ReductionOnly a few months into the year and I am hearing the same old complaints about the economy and business being in general ill health.
SC and Sales senior team squabbles: Always bad for business
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JULY 5, 2018
Dave Jordan CEO KPI Supply Chain SalesAnother sign of getting old I guess. When was the last time you watched a football match when no tattoos were on show and the haircuts did not look like something out of the Time Warp musical?
FMCG S&OP: Who is the stooge in your process?
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JULY 2, 2018
FMCG Dave Jordan Humour Supply Chain CEE S&OP Forecasting & Demand Planning SalesLaurel and Hardy, Morecambe and Wise, Abbott and Costello, Little and Large, Hale and Pace, May and Johnson.
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FMCG Co-packing and Re-packing Management
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JULY 30, 2018
Customer service FMCG Logistics Service Provider Dave Jordan Manufacturing Footprint Logistics ManagementWhether you call it co-packing or re-packing this involves the further manipulation of a previously finished and complete SKU.
FMCG Supply Chain dates to remember: Advanced Planning
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JANUARY 31, 2018
FMCG Dave Jordan S&OP Forecasting & Demand Planning Integrated Business PlanningFebruary is here but blink and you will miss it as it is not a leap year. You cannot change January performance and February should be quite firm by now, so you need to be looking further ahead in your S&OP. Much further ahead.
Your FMCG Supply Chain: The end of January is nigh!
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JANUARY 24, 2018
FMCG Dave Jordan S&OP Forecasting & Demand Planning Sales Inventory Management & Stock ControlWhere has that first post-holiday month gone? Suddenly it’s the 24 th of January and there are only 7 calendar days and 5 working days until you close the month. Adopt panic stations despite what Corporal Jones of Dad’s Army would say.
Relieve your FMCG pain - secure Interim Supply Chain Support
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
MAY 10, 2017
Interim Management Mergers & Acquisitions Dave Jordan Supply Chain CEE Logistics ManagementI know you are busy. Not enough hours in the day. Deadlines rapidly approaching. Your children call you Uncle Dad or Auntie Mum.
Supply Chain Performance: Budget Airlines and KPIs……
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JUNE 14, 2017
FMCG Dave Jordan Humour Performance Improvement Pharma KPI Supply Chain Supply Chain AnalyticsI have never been a fan of budget airlines and certainly not since one left me sleeping overnight in the back of beyond that is Luton Airport.
FMCG Supply Chain: Chaff innovation, is it worth it?
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
FMCG Dave Jordan CEO Supply Chain INNOVATIONBy the end of February over 19% of the year will be behind you. Think about that for a minute. If you follow a financial calendar year you probably put your Annual Plan to bed in October and now nearly 20% of the available selling time has already gone. Shocker!
UASC launches new shipping agency in Jordan
Logistics Middle East
MAY 24, 2015
New shipping agency to be managed in-house by UASC in Jordan as it expands presence in country
Supply Chain: The benefits of Interim Management
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
MARCH 29, 2017
FMCG Interim Management Dave Jordan Performance Improvement Pharma Supply Chain CEEInterim Management is an approach used by companies to “make things happen” within a clear budget and without the headaches of recruiting a full time employee (FTE). The benefits are numerous but initially…….
FMCG Cost Control: Boosting Brewing Bottom Lines
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Brewing & Beverages FMCG Dave Jordan Forecasting & Demand Planning Cost ReductionPicture the scene in many a brewing boardroom; a terse note has arrived from the suits at HQ telling the boss to urgently reduce costs as the year-end result is not going to look pretty.
Why S&OP and IBP are invaluable all year round but especially at Christmas
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
DECEMBER 9, 2015
SKU FMCG Dave Jordan Supply Chain S&OPAll rather too quickly Noddy Holder is already gargling on the festive gravel.
NHS UK Waste: Planning challenges require extreme patience
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
Dave Jordan Performance Improvement Supply Chain Forecasting & Demand PlanningI have spent some considerable time visiting medical facilities both at home and in UK and in the latter case I was not impressed.
UK NHS Supply Chain: bed-busting benefits of patient SKUs
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JUNE 29, 2016
SKU FMCG Dave Jordan Forecasting & Demand Planning IT InformationSome time ago I looked at the often dreadful customer service offered by FMCG and Telecoms companies in CEE. Of course, this avoidable malaise is not restricted to that part of the world.
FMCG Planning: If you like chocolate, now is the time!
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JANUARY 11, 2017
FMCG Christmas Dave Jordan Supply Chain S&OP Forecasting & Demand Planning Supply Chain AnalyticsOvereaten chocolate during the holidays but still want some more? Get yourself and a large blue IKEA bag down to your local supermarket as chocolate is heavily discounted.
Why Supply Chain Innovation Matters in a Fast-Changing World
Talking Logistics
JULY 2, 2013
Jordan Kass , Vice President of Management Services at C.H. If you have a question or comment for Jordan, post it below and keep the conversation going! Robinson control towers innovation Jordan Kass logistics service providers supply chain trends Not only is the world changing, it’s changing faster, across a variety of dimensions — technology, regulations, economic and political landscapes, demographics, and so on.
An FMCG Distributor Is For Life & Not Just For Christmas
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
DECEMBER 14, 2017
FMCG Route to Market Dave Jordan CEO Performance Improvement Supply Chain S&OP DistributionOk, so you are unlikley to see this on a car bumper sticker but FMCG Distributors will have a significant impact on your sales performance , probably your variable pay bonus and therefore your CEO aspirations! How have you treated your Distributors this year? Were they the usual pain in the proverbial - failing to achieve targets, not paying on time, always moaning about trading terms?
Aqaba in Jordan to benefit as Lebanon-Syria border shut
Logistics Middle East
APRIL 15, 2015
Lebanon to route Middle East exports via Aqaba in Jordan after closing Syrian border
Supply Chains – A second look: What do all those initials really mean?
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
SKU FMCG Route to Market Dave Jordan KPI Traditional Trade S&OP Logistics Management Distribution Inventory Management & Stock Control
Qatargas delivers Jordan's first ever shipment of LNG
Logistics Middle East
MAY 27, 2015
Qatargas shipped the first ever delivery of LNG to Jordan from Ras Laffan to the new Aqaba LNG terminal
FMCG Supply Chain Scorecard Performance Measurement: Del-Boy Style.
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
AUGUST 5, 2015
FMCG Dave Jordan Humour Performance Improvement KPI Supply ChainIn a related post I took a look at the use of Balanced Scorecards in FMCG, Brewing and Pharmaceutical businesses but in fact they are entirely appropriate for any business.
Supply Chain Analytics: Sprouts, Imodium & Harry Potter
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JANUARY 18, 2017
FMCG Dave Jordan CEO Humour Supply Chain Supply Chain Analytics ITChristmas and new year holidays seem a long way behind. The decorations have been squeezed back into their boxes for another year and Slade, Cliff, Bing, Bowie and others are safely back in their CD cases.
Supply Chains – Managing internal & external 3/4PLP expectations
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
FMCG Logistics Service Provider Dave Jordan Humour 3PLP 4PLAmerican sit-coms. With very few exceptions I personally do not find them at all funny. At times the funniest part is hearing the hilarious canned laughter when nothing in the least bit humorous occurs.
FMCG Supply Chain: Do you use data or information?
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
AUGUST 27, 2015
FMCG Dave Jordan Performance Improvement Supply ChainWho coined “Big Data”? How did we get there without normal sized data, slightly larger data, chubby data and bordering on big data?
FMCG: Performance turn-around needs fresh supply chain faces
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JULY 29, 2015
FMCG Dave Jordan Performance Improvement Supply ChainIn the greater scheme of life many questions remain unanswered but my hobby horse question is why people and notably politicians and usually male at that, cannot get on with other nationalities and/or/religions.
FMCG: ERP’s – how will you cope when yours fails?
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JULY 15, 2015
FMCG Dave Jordan ERP/SAP Supply Chain SalesYes I know, the recent blog posts have been a little Blog Gold meets Classic Blog with a touch of All Our Yesterdays and the History Channel but here is a fresh new offering.
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