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Supply Chain Management


Retailers know that having an efficient supply chain is critical to maintaining a competitive lead in today’s tough market place.

For many, improving supply chain performance is a never ending journey with each new development in processes, technology, logistics capability and the environment requiring a fresh look at supply chain best practices.

For 35 years a core issue for retailers has been keeping the stores (and now the web site) in stock. After billions in investment in bar code scanning, supply chain systems and surrounding processes, out of stocks are still a major issue for many retailers. If you follow industry norms, you probably lose 8% sales due to out of stocks.

In fashion especially, a second class supply chain creates large markdowns and reduces the ability to react to competition. Every retailer faces this challenge to a greater or lesser degree.

Some of the key trends in supply chain efficiency improvement are:
  • Greater collaboration between retailers and their suppliers to help remove unnecessary inventory from the supply chain.
  • Dramatically shortening the time from design concept to product on the sales floor.
  • The movement of more sourcing overseas, though this may well change as environmental concerns move to the fore.
  • Private label or own brand merchandise taking a greater market share.
  • The introduction of new technologies to improve supply chain efficiencies.
  • The wider deployment of advanced statistical forecasting systems to improve demand forecasting accuracy.

Many retailers turn to Martec International for help in ensuring that their supply chains stay competitive and that their inventory investment is minimized at the same time as protecting or improving service levels. Improving the speed at which your supply chain operates is a key way to do this.

To help you learn more about some of the latest supply chain developments, Martec has developed a free white paper
“The Essential Elements of a Fast and Responsive Supply Chain”.

This free report covers:

  • Essential elements of speed sourcing
    • Strategy
    • The impact on merchandise and assortment planning
    • Changing production processes to introduce parallelism, postponement and time shifting
    • Supply chain compression techniques
    • Opportunity spotting
    • Successful organisation structures
  • Six things that every retailer should know about speed sourcing
  • Six common mistakes that retailers make when implementing speed sourcing

This valuable report is available free. To request your copy simply complete the form below or phone Martec International on:
 +1 770 392 9664 in Atlanta, GA USA or +44 1823 333469 in the UK.
 
Martec International's experience is founded on 20 years of training and consulting to retailers on business process improvement and technology deployment around the world.

Our services include:

  • Audit of the effectiveness of your current supply chains
  • Development of supply chain strategy
  • Research into vendor issues
  • Developing integration of retailer and vendor operations to improve supply chain performance and reduce costs
  • Assistance in implementing real vendor partnerships
  • Implementation of fast fashion or speed sourcing strategies
  • Implementation of CAD/CAM for garment design, use of CMTs (Cut, Make and Trim operations) and fabric pools to improve seasonal management of private label (own brand) inventory
  • Development of warehouse and distribution center strategies
  • Development of improved processes for sales forecasting
  • Executive training in supply chain management techniques to maximize potential benefits
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