Customer Supply Group
Our best practice membership groups for ambient FMCG professionals
Simply Supply Chain’s ambient membership groups work in partnership with FMCG suppliers to improve availability and service, whilst reducing waste and operating costs, in an ever-evolving sector that is seeing unprecedented cost increases.
The Customer Supply Group provides a forum to: share learning and experience to identify best practice; discover opportunities for logistics collaboration; and gather vital data that maintains the right level of pressure on retail reform.
Ambient Collaboration Initiative Modelling (eNVO) - Working in partnership with Incept Consulting to offer access to the eNVO modelling framework proven to enable suppliers and retailers to identify end-to-end opportunities to reduce cost and waste by 15-30%, as well as tracking CO2 consumption and packaging changes at case level.
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Improving service and reducing cost and waste
Improving service and reducing cost and waste
Objective
Reducing E2E network cost to serve
The collaboration initiative works with suppliers and retailers to move from frequent deliveries of small quantities (a system that the driver crisis has exposed as driving cost into the network unnecessarily) to a system of ordering larger minimum order quantities at lower frequency and cost. Therefore, reducing the case-pick burden in the warehouse (and put-away cost for smaller customers).
In light of the driver crisis, this has the added advantage of potentially creating full(er) loads, a more reliable service and mitigating some cost to serve on-costs, for smaller customers.
Reducing End-to-End Costs - Methodology
The initiative will reduce E2E costs and waste through optimising orders using project processes, E2E costing and Ai tools that are proven to reduce E2E costs by >= 10%.
Building Trust
Our collaborative approach will build trust by:
Environmental Sustainability
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Tackling the supply chain growing pains and costs of trading with Amazon
Tackling the supply chain growing pains and costs of trading with Amazon
Suppliers trading with Amazon are incurring substantial costs and facing delays in payment for goods delivered due to high volumes of inaccurate claims, fines and chargebacks.
Building on the success of the Drop and Drive chilled initiative, this group is working in partnership with Amazon’s operations, finance and catalogue teams to improve the current goods receipting process. Consequently, there is opportunity here for participating suppliers to save £millions.
Objectives
Developing best practice forecasting & promotions processes
Developing best practice forecasting & promotions processes
Gathering evidence of supplier losses and waste as a result of ineffective sales and forecasting processes and determining best practice to work with retailers.
Objectives
Supplier best practice group for tackling topical issues
Supplier best practice group for tackling topical issues
We offer a space where suppliers can come together to share experiences, recommend approaches and create best practice. Our expert facilitators share their unique insight and support suppliers to work through their operational challenges.
Key industry issues