Drop & Drive Supply Group
Our best practice membership groups for chilled FMCG professionals
Our award-winning Drop and Drive supply group was founded in partnership with the Groceries Code Adjudicator to eliminate unsubstantiated payment deductions and reduce delays in payments. Together we pioneered the Good Faith Receiving programme, with retailer claims now reduced by 95%.
The group continues to work in collaboration with chilled FMCG suppliers on the implementation of new, innovative retailer programs to improve availability and service, whilst reducing waste and operating costs, in an ever-evolving sector that is seeing unprecedented cost increases.
Simply Supply Chain's chilled membership group provides a forum to share best practice, discover opportunities for logistics collaboration and gather vital data that maintains the right level of pressure on retail reform.
Product Differentiation and Best Practice - Reducing the likelihood of delays in payments by continuing to develop a common set of supplier standards for all retailers.
Sales Forecasting & Promotions Management - Gathering the evidence of supplier losses as a result of ineffective sales and forecasting processes and determining best practice for retailers.
Chilled Collaboration Initiative - Working collaboratively with suppliers and retailers to foster understanding and trust to develop a standardised collaborative framework that will improve service and reduce cost and waste in both networks.
Chilled 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 E2E 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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Eliminating unsubstantiated payment deductions and delays
Eliminating unsubstantiated payment deductions and delays
An award winning supplier-led action group supporting the GCA's drive to eliminate unsubstantiated payment deductions and reduce delays in payments, by the implementation of Good Faith Receiving (GFR).
Before the creation of the Drop & Drive Claims Workgroup, drop and drive unsubstantiated claims were costing
UK chilled suppliers millions (for the 20 original group members, c£15M p/a).
The initiative has delivered a 95% reduction in unsubstantiated claims by delivering innovative win-win solutions, for both suppliers and retailers, from simple and effective labelling, GFR (Good Faith Receiving) and independent auditing.
This group shares best practice on:
For more information please see our Good Faith Receiving page
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:
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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
Enabling GRNI recoveries from major retailers and reducing errors
Enabling GRNI recoveries from major retailers and reducing errors
Enabling suppliers to recover monies owed for non-payment of goods delivered (delayed payments). A sum greater than £1.7m has been recovered from multiple retailers by 7 suppliers to date, with 3 further supplier requests in progress.
The group has won the backing of the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA), and we continue to gather evidence and work with the GCA to gain further traction with retailers.
Sharing best practice and advice on:
The group is also tackling:
Reducing the likelihood of delays in payments
Reducing the likelihood of delays in payments
This best practice group works to increase product differentiation to reduce the likelihood of incorrect identification in retailer RDCs.
Working to agree a common set of supplier standards for product labelling, applicable to all retailers, to reduce the likelihood of errors upon receipt at the retailer DCs.
Encouraging the major retailers to incorporate these standards for ALL of their chilled suppliers, therefore reducing the cost of applying them
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.
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