--- title: "FMCG: New Top Ten Supply Chain Improvement Resolutions for 2015" description: What will the new year bring for your FMCG/Brewing/Pharmaceutical company? Try these Supply Chain New Year resolutions. image: https://supplychain.enchange.com/hs-fs/file-15782527-jpg/blog_images/checklist.jpg --- [Login](https://www.enchange.com/login/) - - - - [![Enchange](https://supplychain.enchange.com/hubfs/Enchange_October2019/Image/logo.png)](https://www.enchange.com/) # Route to Market & Supply Chain Blog # FMCG: New Top Ten Supply Chain Improvement Resolutions for 2015 Posted by Dave Jordan on Wed, Jan 07, 2015 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [ Albert Einstein ](http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins133991.html#vlxLfwCTv5UxpEEM.99) How many of you will be reaching for an electric cigarette or giving up smoking altogether for the New Year?  How long will it be before visits to the gym trickle away? Will you get 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day or will that take-away, drive-thru dinner prove irresistible? All over the world people will be making promises to themselves they would like to keep but few have the staying power to make a difference. Is this possible in your FMCG Supply Chain in 2014? How about this revised Top 10 List of resolutions to help your businesses improve in 2015? ![Supply Chain Improvement List](https://supplychain.enchange.com/hs-fs/file-15782527-jpg/blog_images/checklist.jpg?width=235&height=217&name=checklist.jpg)**Supply Chain Awareness** – As a start you might like to remind colleagues especially Sales & Marketing what [Supply Chain is all about](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/33408/Supply-Chain-What-s-That-All-About). **Sales &Operational Planning** - If this is in place; improve! [If there is no S&OP you should try it - it works](http://www.enchange.com/services/supply-chain-change/sales-and-operational-planning)! If you are agnostic about S&OP, take a look at how S&OP helped [one ](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/76134/FMCG-Foods-Turnaround-A-highly-successful-S-OP-Case-Study)[FMCG company turn performance around](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/76134/FMCG-Foods-Turnaround-A-highly-successful-S-OP-Case-Study). **SKU Complexity** – Do you actually know how many SKUs you have and what is driving your [sku complexity](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/25111/SKU-Proliferation-and-its-effect-on-your-FMCG-Customer-Service)? Do you have amore now than when you started 2014 yet lower overall turnover? Check and take action on non-profitable SKUs and ensure resources are placed behind winners. **Route To Market** – In developing markets Traditional Trade will still form a large chunk of your business. [Give your RTM a thorough service](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/28420/Evaluate-your-FMCG-Route-to-Market-Distributor-Network) and your Distributors will serve you better. **Sales & Marketing Buy-in** – Wouldn’t it be powerful if [everyone in your company was aligned to the same plan](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/32769/Why-does-S-M-cause-so-much-pain-in-FMCG-businesses) and 100% mutually supportive? Too much to hope for? If such a change happens you will rapidly feel the difference. **Proactive 3PLP’s **– Are they meeting the agreed KPI’s? Do you have KPis as part of a Service Level Agreement (SLA)? If perfromance is not what you expect then perhaps you need to [review them and revise upwards](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/22816/Logistics-Working-With-3rd-Party-Logistics-Providers-in-CEE). **Reduced Stock/Inventory** – The start of the year is a great time to [remove that old stock](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/24659/7-Steps-to-destock-FMCG-Distributors-in-CEE). Why not give your sales a much needed post holiday sales boost with some unexpected and low cost support using stock that will be otherwise written off? Amd you know it will! **Improved Customer Service** – Do you measure this and if you do is the measurement 100% honest and accurate? [Companies that fool themselves on Customer Service](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/33045/7-Reasons-why-100-Customer-Service-Does-Not-Help-Your-FMCG-Business) may see short term benefits but do not succeed in the long run. **Use the ERP** - Avoid spreadsheets like the plague as [they undermine your business ](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/32120/Do-Spreadsheets-Undermine-Your-ERP)and waste time and effort. If you have invested in an ERP like SAP then ensure it is correctly [implemented and apply relevant transactional discipline](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/56021/SC-IT-The-reality-of-ERP-implementation-and-go-live-preparedness). Is you business running on raw data or actionable information? Think about that! **Continuously Improve** – If you stand still as this awful recession slowly evaporraates it is highly likely you will be at the back of the pack. [Keep innovating and improving your Supply Chain](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/30706/Update-your-Supply-Chain-or-risk-ending-up-in-Pennsylvania) to maintain competiveness and freshness. Naturally, you cannot do everything at the same time but if you choose to focus on a few of these areas you will discover you can significantly change your FMCG business success by getting improved and sustainable value from your Supply Chain. Make a resolution and just do it! You don't need to be Einstein......... 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