Retail/Supplier alignment

With the changes to the retail environment driven in part by retail strategy it is important to align suppliers operations to meet these retail strategic changes. Areas such as Factory gate pricing, primary freight initiative and point of sale technology all have major ramifications to a suppliers supply chain.

Features:

Assessment of the impact of primary freight initiative on transport, warehouse and inventory operations including:

Delivery profile
Line haul profile
DC design
Inventory levels
Lead times
Impact of both primary freight and FGP on a suppliers sales and operations planning systems such as Forecasting and demand planning.

Assessment of the impact of primary freight on manufacturing operations
Assessment of primary freight impact on a suppliers supply arrangement
Assessment of the impact of factory gate pricing (FGP) initiative on transport, warehouse and inventory operations
Assessment of the impact of FGP on manufacturing operations
Assessment of FGP impact on a suppliers supply arrangement
Assessment of changes to point of sale technology such as the introduction of roll cages, RFID, self check out and self scanning on:
- Warehouse design
- Transport requirements
- IT management systems
- Product tracking
- Replenishment
- Supply-retail flows