Distributor Management – Top 5 Do’s and Don’ts for FMCG Principals
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JUNE 10, 2025
As part of the workshop, we are developing a list of Do’s and Don’ts related to Distributor Management.
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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
JUNE 10, 2025
As part of the workshop, we are developing a list of Do’s and Don’ts related to Distributor Management.
SCMDOJO
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Provides various educational opportunities, such as conferences, workshops, and webinars. However, it also covers core topics, including essential topics such as supply chain basics , demand planning and forecasting , inventory management , procurement , sourcing , logistics, transportation , etc.
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Precoro
DECEMBER 24, 2024
Unlike traditional tools that often operate in isolation or rely on rigid workflows, AI connects the dots between disparate data sources, providing a more comprehensive view of procurement activities. AI in procurement use cases : Analyzing data from multiple sources to predict demand trends with greater accuracy.
ThroughPut
JULY 14, 2025
Checklist: How to Prepare Your Supply Chain for AI Use this step-by-step checklist to evaluate and accelerate your readiness for AI implementation across planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics. ThroughPut.ai helped a leading CPG firm cut lead times by 27% using demand-sensing AI and dynamic replenishment.
ThroughPut
JULY 14, 2025
Checklist: How to Prepare Your Supply Chain for AI Use this step-by-step checklist to evaluate and accelerate your readiness for AI implementation across planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics. ThroughPut.ai helped a leading CPG firm cut lead times by 27% using demand-sensing AI and dynamic replenishment.
SCMDOJO
MAY 11, 2025
Track Cost Savings Monitor both the short-term and long-term financial impact of reusing or remanufacturing parts versus sourcing new materials. Part of this is becoming a circular business, training employees in circular selling and offering workshops for customers on furniture maintenance and upcycling.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 16, 2025
Leadership workshops, financial literacy programs, and compliance courses can provide the skills new managers need to succeed. A formal mentorship program can help new managers navigate budgeting, compliance, and employee management with confidence. Invest in formal management training. Encourage engagement with industry associations.
Jaggaer
MAY 16, 2025
Procurement teams now include specialists such as category managers with deep market knowledge who drive sourcing events and significantly impact the companys bottom line. Through smart sourcing, procurement can help accelerate R&D processes and enable faster delivery of new products or solutions.
QAD
MAY 6, 2025
Moreover, we were unable to carry out the buyer’s most crucial action: sourcing appropriately with suppliers on the platform. As a result, the company can better identify areas for improvement and work collaboratively with suppliers to enhance sourcing delivery.
EFT
MAY 26, 2025
Italy arrests Chinese workshop owner over labour exploitation in fashion supply chain Italian police said on Tuesday they arrested a Chinese national for alleged labour exploitation and shut down a workshop in the Milan area producing items for the fashion industry. Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1.5 TW) will invest $1.5
SCMDOJO
JANUARY 15, 2025
Attend industry conferences, seminars, and workshops to connect with peers, mentors, and potential employers. This includes disruptions like natural disasters and geopolitical tensions that can affect sourcing and delivery. Consider optimizing transportation routes to reduce carbon emissions, as well as sourcing materials responsibly.
NC State SCRC
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
This was described by Bill Heckencamp in our 2019 workshop. We source 250 miles of tubular steel out of Canada, but were hit with a 232 tariff, and every piece of pipe suddenly was assigned a 25% penalty. It may be time to run another workshop to discuss how to handle some of these issues!
Logistics Bureau
JANUARY 14, 2025
This included site visits, workshops and the collection of financial, transactional and KPI information from GSK, and their third party logistics providers. A summary of the main sources of information is included here.
Supply Chain Game Changer
JULY 15, 2025
From last-mile delivery solutions to on-demand services like moving, hauling, and even mobile businesses such as food trucks or mobile workshops, van owners can look forward to generate income with steady workflow. And after a busy day on the road, unwind with some fun and exciting offers at Croco Casino.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 26, 2025
It also requires detailed inventories of hazardous materials; To support developing countries, IMO has organized various workshops on ship recycling to raise awareness of the Convention internationally.
Supply Chain Game Changer
JULY 14, 2025
This global reach helps local businesses expand their markets and fosters growth within the community by bringing in capital from outside sources. Community workshops and seminars can be instrumental in teaching individuals and businesses how to use Bitcoin safely and effectively.
Demand Driven Technologies
MARCH 21, 2024
In a production workshop, with a supplier, in transport, there are …brrr, it’s a bit scary… yes, yes… supply chain EMERGENCIES. Read more Source In my career, I’ve seen all kinds: red, bright red, dark red, and even black.
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Procurement, activities such as strategic sourcing, are one of the main processes in the supply chains that can generate a positive impact on companies by giving them a competitive advantage in the market. Strategic sourcing can help supply chain leaders identify potential risk factors and develop procurement mitigation plans.
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 18, 2022
We witnessed a surge in mobile wellness applications, online personal training, meditation, and yoga workshops more accessible to everyone around the globe. As many retailers will look into sourcing products locally, re-evaluating their supply and logistics networks for optimizing their supply chains will be more critical than ever.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
In the workshop, we talked at length about the use of sentiment analysis to sense quality issues, market opportunities and new product launch acceptance. I find twitter an accurate source of data. As I spoke, I asked “Who knows what sentiment analysis is?” ” No one raised their hand.
Talking Logistics
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
I moderated several workshops and a fireside chat with the attendees. Source: [link]. In one of the workshops, the participants (representing various business units and vertical industries) discussed the following questions: If you had to compete on delivering the best customer experience, what would that entail?
Kinaxis
DECEMBER 12, 2014
They use their knowledge of how planning systems work to peg up to find the source of the change and determine that someone changed the wrong record causing the change and confirm with the planner that the change was intended. One very good source of supply chain training is APICs (American Production and Inventory Control Society).
Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy
APRIL 7, 2014
planning, sourcing, manufacturing, etc.) So we held a workshop. We have also been working with many of the same companies on Route to Market (RTM) projects. For the sake of clarity, by “primary supply chain” we mean all processes (e.g. How, we wondered, could this client achieve a step change improvement in financial performance?
Supply Chain View from the Field
OCTOBER 10, 2014
The proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Human Centered Big Data Research was recently posted. It was also clear that the field of Big Data is expanding rapidly, and that intelligence agencies are including many different approaches to collecting data from multiple sources to drive insights.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 12, 2024
In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization, increasing access to China as both a channel and a supply source. Consider the investment in outside-in planning processes using market data and orchestrating source, make, and deliver based on a holistic design process. – The Myopic Focus on Cost Reduces Effectiveness.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 20, 2024
The conference will feature a diverse range of sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities tailored to meet the needs of professionals responsible for sourcing along the supply chain.
ivalua
APRIL 8, 2020
Indeed, some preparation is necessary before this innovation event: fifty new suppliers were sourced and only ten were selected for speed dating. Third, they have an annual two-day innovation workshop which mixes stakeholders from Urgo as well as direct suppliers and even tier 2 and tier 3 suppliers.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 2, 2015
The commercial model of the company is to make money through speaking, research studies for others, facilitated workshops, benchmarking, training and events. I need a source of supply chain insights that is current.” We invest in research and give it away freely. People scratch their heads… We are mavericks.
Enterra Insights
AUGUST 20, 2024
” Source: Entrepreneurship Database Meunier and his colleagues also report that global economies experienced a rebound in new business registrations in 2021. There are many reasons that people attend conferences and workshops. Low-income economies had only 0.4 new companies per 1,000 adults. One reason is to connect with people.
NC State SCRC
MARCH 22, 2019
The field of supply management once had a love affair with the notion of strategic sourcing, which often sought quick price reductions through volume leveraging, to the exclusion of the most important party in the supply chain: the internal customer.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
I am facilitating a workshop between supply chain business visionaries and technology innovators. Could we use Open Source Hadoop to process transactions across all networks with powerful in-memory processing? Another source of disappointment is the lack of capabilities in the IBP modeling engines.
KEPLER Consulting
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Over last decade, sourcing offices became a major piece within globalized footprint of western retailers. After a first era of development and opportunity catch up particularly positive and characterized by consistent purchasing gains , most of these Sourcing Offices are now searching for their second breath.
AIMMS
JULY 20, 2016
New sources of risk post-Brexit include tighter customs and administrative control processes, cost increases, and border crossings that are more prone to error. Click here to read more about Prescriptive Analytics or find out how you can build a prototype application quickly by joining a POC workshop.
ToolsGroup
APRIL 27, 2022
Image source: APA. For example, as of March 2022, 81% of Americans say the supply chain is a significant source of stress. Image source. Image source: APA. The following experts share eight sources of stress at work. And plenty of us are feeling that stress at work. In…and out…there you go!)
DELMIA Quintiq
OCTOBER 28, 2014
With regards to handling global manufacturing operations, let’s take a look at a situation where sourcing is done, say, somewhere in China and then shipping is carried out for selling in European markets. Having parties who can share more information during that process flow will be a great advantage. Discover more. Got a question?
GlobalTranz
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other platforms provide an excellent source of being discovered by others if your post does the trick. A graduate from Monash University, Bella organizes free coaching workshops and promotes free sharing of knowledge. According to research in 2012, 27.7% You can also find her on Linkedin. Bella Williams.
Supply Chain Movement
JUNE 11, 2014
I split this off from global sourcing because we had plenty of buyers but not enough planning and logistics so service and documentation was failing. Their mission is to work with our many global buyers, collectively known as Risk Management and Sourcing (RMS), to streamline the buying, planning and logistics. It holds things back.
AIMMS
JULY 20, 2016
New sources of risk post-Brexit include tighter customs and administrative control processes, cost increases, and border crossings that are more prone to error. Click here to read more about Prescriptive Analytics or find out how you can build a prototype application quickly by joining a POC workshop. What types of risks will you face?
Supply Chain Movement
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
P2P Process Owners Strategy Workshop. This workshop stream will serve as a platform for benchmarking best practices and successful approaches to resolving key P2P goals and obstacles that are on the way to those goals. 10th Pan-European Conference in the P2P Series. Date 16-18 November 2016. Venue: Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Provenance
OCTOBER 16, 2020
courses, conferences, workshops). Free, sustainably-sourced fresh fruit, snacks, tea/coffee, beers & wine in the office. Regular team workshops, demos and regular social events. Wellbeing fund dedicated to the mental and physical health of our team. Learning and development budget to support your career growth (e.g.
ivalua
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Next, reciprocal satisfaction surveys on the relationship, themed workshops, site visits, multi-stakeholder meetings bringing together the Procurement department, supplier, sub-contractors and internal customers, are just some of the ways you can enrich the relationship and build mutual awareness.
ivalua
AUGUST 21, 2022
This can take the form of workshops, training, technical advice, provision of tools (software, calculation files, etc.), This means having an integrated decision-making tool to avoid having to compile multiple new data sources, new Excel files, new software, etc. Source new suppliers with a low carbon footprint.
DELMIA Quintiq
AUGUST 15, 2022
This could mean reducing fuel consumption, machine CO 2 emissions, or transitioning their energy to hybrid, electric or hydrogen sources. This can enable you to simulate and optimize physical space and line layouts, workshop operations, and robot operations. Supply Chain Instability. Cut product development lead time in half.
NC State SCRC
DECEMBER 15, 2015
The goal of the workshop is to host academics who are exploring new ideas and research topics in the emerging field of sustainable supply chains. . Ensuring Corporate Social Responsibility via Vertical Integration and Horizontal Sourcing – Adem Orsdemir, Bin Hu, Vinayak Deshpande. 11:00-11:30 Break.
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