Consumer
Products companies are challenged to ensure
balance of supply to ever changing demand
for a large number of SKU / Location combinations.
In addition, they are challenged to increase
visibility within and across their supply
chain, so they can increase its efficiency
and responsiveness. As a result, the supply
chain processes in such companies have some
unique characteristics that need to be addressed
in an implementation of a supply chain solution.
Bristlecone understands these unique requirements
and has incorporated them in implementations
of supply chain management solution for the
consumer products companies.
Unique supply chain characteristics of a consumer
products company include:
Demand
Planning
Need to draw data from multiple systems,
collate and prepare a forecast template
quickly
Incorporate promotional planning into
the demand forecasting process
Enable a faster bottom-up and top-down
consensus demand planning process, while
supporting dis-aggregation and aggregation
of forecast at all the levels
Ensuring forecast accuracy at SKU,
DC level
Create a forecast for a new product
and also know its impact on forecast of
a product being phased out
Supply
Planning
Preparing a supply plan including the
production plan, distribution plan and
the procurement plan concurrently rather
than sequentially. Ability to quickly
rework these numbers based on changes
in forecasts
How to base the supply plan on parameters
such as supply chain costs, supply chain
constraints
Calculating and building the buffer
stock with changing demand conditions
and deciding where best to place this
buffer stock
Building ahead without building too
much inventory and also ensuring that
sales are not lost
Addressing multi-plant scheduling,
while incorporating shop floor constraints
and shelf life
Bristlecone
understand these requirements very well and
can quickly model them into your supply chain
system implementation. Result: a successful
implementation done quickly and correctly
the first time.
For
additional information on how we can help
you with either an assessment of your current
Supply Chain systems environment or implementation/extension
of your SCM system, please contact us
here.
Supply
Chain System Roll out and Support for Unilever
Asia
Our client, a global consumer products company,
had set an ambitious growth target to become
a predominant player in the Consumer packaged
goods segment in the Asia Pacific region .
Bristlecone was selected as one of the vendors
for rolling out the supply chain solution
to new countries in the region and for providing
application support to users in the Asia Pac
region.
Supply
Chain Planning at Nestle USA
Bristlecone assisted Nestle USA in re-engineering
key business processes including Demand Planning,
Supply Planning and Production scheduling
and implemented SAP APO™ to support
the re-engineered processes.
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