Solving the challenge of end-to-end visibility As manufacturers’ supply chains go global and become increasingly complex, getting end-to-end supply chain visibility across an extended value chain is a little bit like trying to keep pace on a treadmill. Therefore, experts suggest manufacturers take on the visibility challenge by narrowing the scope of their efforts to the primary pain point surrounding …
Retailers Help Del Monte See Future
Del Monte CIO Marc Brown shares strategies for improving demand-planning accuracy with Industry Week. A recent AMR Research report suggests the economic downturn should have served as a “wake-up call” for the importance of sales and operations planning (S&OP). An S&OP plan is typically characterized as a consensus process that involves stakeholders internally and externally throughout an organization, says Jane …
Del Monte Improves On-Shelf Availability and Shrinks Inventory Costs With Retailer Collaboration Through One Network
Case Study on Del Monte’s success with One Network, by transforming its consumer goods supply chain into a consumer-driven network. Read how Del Monte transitioned to a consumer-driven network and achieved higher on-shelf availability with lower inventory levels. See the Del Monte Case Study. Being out of stock at the retail shelf is the eighth deadly sin for suppliers. Although …
One’s Not the Loneliest Number… If You Have a 2,800 Member Network
Bruce Richardson, AMR Research (Gartner) If you attended our recent Supply Chain Executive Conference last June, I hope you remember the fireside chat I conducted with Dave Allen, senior vice president, operations and supply chain, of Del Monte Foods Company. During our chat, Mr. Allen described how he was moving critical, collaborative business processes for retailer planning and fulfillment to …
