Anyone selling to major retailers will be aware of the pressure to align supply chain practices more closely with their customers’ requirements. The big retailers are going into competition with their suppliers as they increase their demands for new products and services, and the battle lines are being drawn today for dominance and survival in tomorrow’s market. Some of the key challenges include private label competition, category rationalisation, factory gate pricing, collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment, warehouse consolidation and shelf-ready packaging.
There will be casualties, but the survivors will be the companies who get the analysis, planning and decision making right. To do this, there must be visibility along the entire value chain: sales data, profitability, demand planning, financials, and third party data.
The Consumer Products industry is a key market for Supply Chain Consulting and we have extensive experience in particular with the food and grocery, fashion and consumer electronics sectors.
Our industry solution SLIM™ Fashion is a best-in-class SAP solution for medium-sized fashion organisation, which provides comprehensive sales and distribution functionality, combined with strong inventory management and financials capability. It provides visibility over the entire supply chain, from outsourced manufacturing and in-house design of many styles to real-time collaboration with the retailers.
Our Viewlocity™ product suite enables consumer products companies to overcome the visibility challenges and achieve their business goals by providing focused Sense, Respond & Measure solutions to each of the key business functions.
The Viewlocity™ Inventory Management solution enables companies to monitor and manage inventory across their entire supply chain. It provides much needed visibility to inventories across trading partners as well as across multiple transaction systems.
The Viewlocity™ Logistics Management solution enables the logistics organization to effectively manage their inbound and outbound operations.
The Viewlocity™ Supplier Management solutions provide purchasing managers at global discrete manufacturing companies the ability to effectively manage their supplier base to meet their business objectives.
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