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FMCG: Your wagging SKU tail is knocking your company off-balance
Dave Jordan Wed, Oct 30, 2024
Double Bio, then the weekend! Finally, Friday afternoon and looking forward to running out of school with a whole weekend of football ahead. Just a double Biology lesson to get through and then 2 days of freedom from books, blackboards and…
FMCG Complexity - a stealthy increase in SKU numbers?
Dave Jordan Wed, Oct 23, 2024
Stealth? What made me think of that word? Do you remember that playground game called Statues? One person is the 'Museum Curator' and stands at the end of a field or yard. Everyone else stands an agreed distance away and the aim of the game is for a…
Top 10 Benefits of S&OP (Sales & Operational Planning)
Dave Jordan Wed, Oct 16, 2024
This article was first published several years ago but it is about time for a refreshed look at what S&OP brings to your business. A reminder In successful FMCG and other companies, Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) is the flexible glue that holds…
FMCG 4Ps: Is everything you do really adding value?
Dave Jordan Wed, Oct 09, 2024
Time for action? If you have been dithering about making change for FMCG success, now is the time. With so much chaos around the world and COVID raising its ugly head once more, you will (hopefully) never have such a strategic discontinuity…
Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat & his Supply Chain hat
Dave Jordan Wed, Oct 02, 2024
Deliver, deliver, deliver. Briefly, before we get stuck into today's article, I recently took a first-hand look at the ailing National Health Service in UK. Oh, how a little bit of demand and supply planning expertise plus a smidgeon of alternative…