Consumer Goods Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Manufacturing 
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company. The Company;s senses consumer preferences to change and align their portfolio to deliver personalized products for purchase anytime and anywhere. This has pushed the company to hyper-connectivity with the final consumer. Growing Pains.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 2, 2023
A large consumer products manufacturer with nine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instances and several divisions wanted to discuss forecasting. The team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence. This blog post started a series of telephone calls. Granularity also differs.
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Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 1, 2023
We find that companies with an analytics center of excellence drove progress faster than those with a supply chain center of excellence. While companies build Supply Chain Centers of Excellence, most are not clear on what good looks like. When you ask, “What defines supply chain excellence?”
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
Consumers became more loyal to retail brands, and retailers increased the number of products manufactured and marketed as house brands. Consumers want to shop anywhere, and buy in the way that they want to buy. The digital consumer often wants to shop online, pick up at the store, and conveniently manage returns.
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Manufacturers can gather valuable granular data such as the time an item spent in storage, at what temperature, how long it took to sell, the length of time between purchase and fulfillment and how long it spent in transport. For example, companies can track products throughout the entire lifecycle with RFID and GPS sensors.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 13, 2024
This week, I attended the Consumer Goods Forum in Chicago. On the top of mind for many retail and consumer goods executives is the looming forced upgrade by SAP named RISE. The Consumer Goods Forum follows on the heels of Sapphire. The networking was great. Here I share observations and take aways.
Enterra Insights
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
And — in what could be boon or bane for manufacturers and retailers — today’s consumers are quite willing to abandon their once-preferred brands in favor of new ones that offer value or novelty.”[1] The Omnichannel Consumer. ”[2] Yes, consumers can be difficult to figure out. .”[2]
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