Process CPG firms have all of the challenges of any consumer-facing industry but with the additional challenge that traditional ERP and SCM strategies (designed for discrete manufacturing) don't work. Process CPG includes food and beverage, brewing, cosmetics and personal care, and any verticals where the manufacturing challenges are just as complex as the distribution challenges. Process CPG firms tend to have the following characteristics:
- Capital intensive, finite capacity
- Moving bottlenecks in the plant
- Labor and crewing capacity issues
- Shelf-life and product expiration risk
- Potency and concentration management issues
- Synchronization dependencies between making and packing
Whether you are the channel master or niche player in your market, every Process CPG firm works to optimize their marketing mix (Product, Price, Promotion, Place). But the rules of the game keep changing. Today, with RFID and mega retailers continuously raising the bar, producers can no longer rely on monthly S&OP processes to keep inventory levels balanced and customers satisfied. When consumers can deplete stocking levels in minutes, producers must have the agility to sense and respond at the speed of the web and re-optimize their supply-demand match plans on the hour. DDSN (Demand Driven Supply Network) practices are being adopted all over the industry. And like most mission-critical transformations, it requires a balanced approach to understanding and improving people, process, and technology.
WAM Systems' Picaso™ is designed to address this type of environment, and accommodate the industry's specialized needs through an intuitive solution that places critical decision-making information in the hands of the key personnel who need it most.
The Picaso™ Solution for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
The Picaso™ Solution provides CPG companies with an enterprise-wide suite of tools that offers many features and benefits, including:
- Dynamic Production Scheduling
which builds upon a combination of sales history, collaborative sales forecasts and production constraints to present a continually-optimized production schedule across the entire supply chain, accommodating the industry's ever-present seasonal production needs
- Visibility Over the Global Supply Chains
including visibility to key performance indicators (KPIs), real-time inventory projections for multiple SKUs and updated impact analysis of collaborative forecasting
- Increased Customer Service Levels
through real-time analysis tools for Available-to-Promise (ATP) / Capable-to-Promise (CTP) data reporting as well as comprehensive metrics for demand history
- Automated Functionality to Optimize Supply Chain Operations
including maintaining optimal inventory levels and support for time-phased safety-stocks
Deployed in a suite of interconnected modules that incorporate WAM's industry-leading supply chain methodology, the WAM Picaso™ Solution allows supply chain executives to manage every aspect of their planning operation, including:
- Collaborative Demand Management and Forecasting
- Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Inventory Targeting and Optimization
- Distribution Planning and Scheduling
- Production Planning & Scheduling
- Supply Chain Management and Optimization
- Optimal Policy Setting
- Raw Materials Planning
- Available-to-Promise (ATP) / Capable-to-Promise (CTP) Order Fulfillment Analysis
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Industry Benchmarking
WAM Systems conducts an ongoing series of benchmarking surveys for companies throughout the process manufacturing industry in an effort to assess the overall maturity of supply chain practices. The purpose of these surveys is to help each company compare its supply chain process maturity with that of its industry peers.
Each survey is composed of a telephone interview and final report--loaded with demographic and benchmarking data--and is kept confidential to the participating company. Companies find this analysis useful when there is a desire to confirm
what they perceive to be an industry gap within their current planning processes.
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Industry Best-Practices
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Process™ is a concise yet thorough analysis of a company's
existing supply chain operation which is designed to help key executives evaluate
the potential for process and technology improvement in a format that
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Supporting WAM's Picaso™ Solution is its unparalleled industry supply chain consulting service, whose leading offering is a multi-faceted analysis and benchmarking study called the WAM-ID Process™.
By using this process, WAM has helped numerous companies discover real value, that can be
quantified and achieved through a tangible roadmap of process improvement and supporting technology implementation.
Learn more about the WAM-ID Process™ and how it can quickly and
easily be launched inside your company to address the concerns and
potential of your supply chain planning organization.
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