--- title: RtM & Supply Chain Blog | Supply Chain description: Supply Chain | Enchange is an international supply chain & RtM consultancy. Learn more about our 20 Step to RtM Excellence methodology and find useful resources to improve your supply chain operations. image: //supplychain.enchange.com/Portals/85647/images/S&OP%20teamwork%20and%20sales%20forecasting-resized-600.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 Welcome to our blog! We are passionate about Route to Market and supply chain management and we are delighted to share our thoughts with you. We would like to hear from you too, so please comment on our posts or [**contact us**](https://www.enchange.com/contact-us/). ## Latest Posts ## [FMCG: Operating without a Supply Chain department!](https://supplychain.enchange.com/fmcg-operating-without-a-supply-chain-department) Dave Jordan Thu, May 29, 2025 Supply Chain nuts & bolts Last week I looked at some basic definitions of a Supply Chain and what Supply Chains are designed to achieve. After enjoying the wet UK Bank Holiday, one of my first meetings was with an established FMCG CEO. No names of… ## [FMCG Supply Chain: What’s That All About?](https://supplychain.enchange.com/fmcg-supply-chain-whats-that-all-about) Dave Jordan Thu, May 22, 2025 A long, long time ago.... I started my career in the late 1970s studying chemistry and working as an R&D type helping to bring FMCG Homecare products to the market. At that time, people working in R&D were largely silo based and did not really know… ## [FMCG: Mind the performance gap](https://supplychain.enchange.com/bid/75158/fmcg-drinks-pharmaceuticals-mind-the-performance-gap-0) Dave Jordan Thu, May 01, 2025 Going Underground I am not a frequent traveller to London or the UK in general for that matter so getting around is always a challenge and particularly when travel by the Tube is required. In the rush hours at each end of the day there must be more… ## [FMCG Leadership Blame Tennis: Lost/missed sales?](https://supplychain.enchange.com/fmcg-leadership-blame-tennis-lost-missed-sales) Dave Jordan Fri, Apr 25, 2025 First Serve Recently, I witnessed an intense Grand Slam match of blame tennis recently in the board room of a popular FMCG multinational. The intensity and aggression on display presented a mental image of a tennis match with John McEnroe, Ilie… ## [FMCG Stock Shrinkage: Where are you leaking cash?](https://supplychain.enchange.com/fmcg-stock-shrinkage-where-are-you-leaking-cash) Dave Jordan Thu, Apr 03, 2025 Shrinkage? The term 'shrinkage' covers a multitude of possibilities e.g. damage, theft, administration errors and even variable supplier integrity. All these and more inevitably lead to missing stock, extra cost and ultimately, poor Customer… ## [FMCG CEO Canape Questions. Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP)](https://supplychain.enchange.com/fmcg-ceo-canape-questions.-sales-operational-planning-sopbid/59731/sales-operational-planning-s-op-ceo-question-time-0) Dave Jordan Wed, Mar 12, 2025 Networking I recently met the CEO of an FMCG beverages company at a charity fund raising evening and both being fans of the foaming ale, we settled on a canape-fuelled discussion on all things beer. At this event I was not wearing my Supply Chain… ## [Your FMCG S&OP Leadership - has it gone to the dogs?](https://supplychain.enchange.com/your-fmcg-sop-leadership-has-it-gone-to-the-dogs) Dave Jordan Thu, Feb 20, 2025 Who let the dogs out? If you lived in or visited Bucharest about 10 years ago you will have seen one or two stray dogs hanging around the city. Actually, a lot more than one or two, there were hoards of them. In 2010 a proposal was made to organise… ## [FMCG Call Centre Shenanigans](https://supplychain.enchange.com/fmcg-call-centre-shenanigans) Dave Jordan Wed, Feb 12, 2025 Your call is important to us.... Previously, we looked at how some companies are economical with the truth when it comes to measuring Customer Service. Today we take a look at how your telephone face to the customer can be helping or hindering your… ## [FMCG Opportunity Knocks? Time to Spring Clean your Supply Chain](https://supplychain.enchange.com/fmcg-opportunity-knocks-time-to-spring-clean-your-supply-chain) Dave Jordan Wed, Jan 22, 2025 Holiday hangover? Ok, so 2024 has been put to bed financially but many will be paying a heavy price for the mammoth last quarter efforts which must have made logistics companies and advertising and promotional agencies extremely wealthy. I wonder… ## [FMCG Planning: Chocolate Challenges!](https://supplychain.enchange.com/fmcg-planning-chocolate-challenges) Dave Jordan Wed, Jan 15, 2025 A diet beckons? Have you been brave enough to step on the bathroom scales yet or are you trying to ignore the inevitable weight gain? You may well have overindulged in chocolate during the holidays but do you still crave more? Get yourself and a… ## [FMCG Performance Scorecard: Hiding in plain sight!](https://supplychain.enchange.com/fmcg-performance-scorecard-hiding-in-plain-sight) Dave Jordan Wed, Dec 04, 2024 Plane sight When travelling by air, my personal preference is to take only one plane to my final destination, where possible. I know this is more expensive than journeys with connections but I find it a much better overall experience given the… ## [Supply Chain: Top 10 Supply Chain faux pas!](https://supplychain.enchange.com/supply-chain-top-10-supply-chain-faux-pas) Dave Jordan Wed, Nov 20, 2024 Morning woes I have just had one of those mornings. I missed the alarm and the 10-minute snooze and from then on everything went downhill. Jumped in the shower for a brief cleanse but then once waterlogged I realised there was no soap, not even a… ## [FMCG Complexity - A Practical Reduction Guide](https://supplychain.enchange.com/fmcg-complexity-reduction-a-practical-guide-0) Dave Jordan Wed, Nov 06, 2024 Recondite complexity? I recently discussed how complexity negatively affects cost and service including how a floppy SKU tail inhibits growth. Do you understand the impact unnecessary SKUs have on FMCG success? CEOs should be seeking leaner and… ## [FMCG Complexity - a stealthy increase in SKU numbers?](https://supplychain.enchange.com/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… ## [FMCG 4Ps: Is everything you do really adding value?](https://supplychain.enchange.com/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… [All posts](https://supplychain.enchange.com/all) [Next](https://supplychain.enchange.com/topic/supply-chain/page/2) ### Subscribe Here! 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