The Challenge Our client requires a large, ongoing supply of beef products to produce the millions of hamburgers and other beef-based items it sells daily. Given its purchase volume, the company sources beef trims from multiple suppliers, processes the trims and then ships these to distribution centers. Volatility in beef-trim costs, region-specific demand, production capacity,…
Read more »Challenge One of the world’s largest foodservice companies was challenged with managing a poultry manufacturing and distribution network with annual costs in excess of hundreds of millions of dollars. Overseeing this mammoth network was particularly demanding due to on-going volatility in raw material costs and market conditions. The company needed a powerful, collaborative, enterprise-wide process…
Read more »The Challenge The retailer’s Dairy category was facing growing demand, evolving product lines and shrinking margins. And the challenge was intensified by the volatile commodities markets for Class A milk, non-fat dry milk, cocoa, sugar and packaging. Their team used Excel models, e-Sourcing tools and ad-hoc reports for pricing, budgeting and KPIs but found the…
Read more »The Challenge The QSR company faces daily uncertainty and volatility related to food commodity prices and, as a result, significant margin variances and risks to the company. The variances when passed to the stores created cash-flow pressure to the restaurants. Leading up to the late 2000s, in order to grow its sales and improve store…
Read more »Challenge A food company that makes sauces, condiments and frozen foods provides hundreds of products to thousands of foodservice distributors around the US. Traditionally, the food company uses a complex, delivered pricing model for its customers with regional differences and many non-standard structures such as “FOB delivered.” The existing model had several drawbacks: Delivery cost…
Read more »Challenge The prospect of chicken sales growth coupled with consumer taste change presents the suppliers with the interesting challenge of creating a strategy to manage the uncertainties. The strategy includes elements of investing in additional capacity, optimizing process parameters for various stages, and evaluating the possibility of changing product specifications. A prerequisite to strategy creation…
Read more »Challenge One of the world’s leading global foodservice retailers identified several gaps in their Budgeting and Supplier Performance Review process including: Inconsistent processes across regions and among suppliers Manual, time-consuming procedures for data collection, analysis and review Multiple disparate data sources Time consuming rounds of analysis, review and discussions between supply chain managers, suppliers and…
Read more »Challenge Our client needed to develop a manufacturing blueprint that would alleviate their challenges with global demand, integrated acquisitions, synergies and cost opportunities. With thousands of SKUs, operations and distribution centers located around the world, products with their own regulatory compliance requirements, and significant transportation modes, the blueprint had to ensure minimum capital investment to…
Read more »Challenge A global leading foodservice retailer’s vast distribution network consisted of dozens of unique Distribution Centers (DCs) that serviced a wide range of products and shipped to more than 10,000 points of delivery. The DCs were regionally managed which led to a system of disparate processes and reporting tools that management used for evaluating performance…
Read more »Challenge One of the world’s largest foodservice companies was challenged with managing a poultry manufacturing and distribution network with annual costs in excess of $1 billion. Overseeing this mammoth network was particularly demanding due to on-going volatility in raw material costs and market conditions. The company needed a powerful, collaborative, enterprise-wide process for planning, forecasting,…
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