Rethink, Retool, Reinvent
Deeper collaboration with key customers and suppliers is the number one strategy for improving resilience and agility. This eBook looks at why FMCG supply chains need it, and how to make it work with external partners.
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The strategy most companies know about, and few invest in
The number one strategy for improving resilience and agility is to deepen collaborative relationships with key customers and suppliers. And yet, according to Gartner, less than 10% of companies pursue agility investments in areas like collaboration.
This eBook covers how marketplace disruptions have pushed FMCG supply chains to change the way they operate, why better collaboration with external partners is more pressing than ever, and how to digitally enable real-time visibility and collaboration with those partners. Download the guide, then see how Nulogy Supplier Collaboration connects brands to real-time data from their co-packers and contract manufacturers.
The collaboration gap, at a glance
What you'll find inside
Three topics, from what disruption has changed to how to build collaboration that works in real time.
How Disruption Has Changed FMCG Supply Chains
How marketplace disruptions have challenged FMCG supply chains to reconsider and retool the way they operate.
Why Partner Collaboration Can't Wait
Why the need to improve collaboration with external supply chain partners is more of an imperative now than ever before.
Real-Time Visibility and Collaboration
How to digitally enable real-time visibility and collaboration with external partners in order to improve responsiveness to market shifts.
Rethink, Retool, Reinvent FAQ
1What does the guide cover?
How marketplace disruptions have challenged FMCG supply chains to reconsider and retool the way they operate, why the need to improve collaboration with external supply chain partners is more of an imperative now than ever before, and how to digitally enable real-time visibility and collaboration with external partners to improve responsiveness to market shifts.
2Who is this guide for?
Supply chain, planning and external manufacturing leaders at FMCG brands who work with co-packers and contract manufacturers and want to respond faster when the market shifts.
3What is supply chain agility?
Supply chain agility is the ability to respond quickly to changes in demand or supply, such as a demand spike, a material shortage or a partner disruption, without large losses in cost or service.
4Why does collaboration improve resilience?
When a brand and its partners share current information on orders, capacity and inventory, problems surface earlier and both sides can adjust plans together. That shortens the time between a disruption and a response.
5How does Nulogy Supplier Collaboration support real-time collaboration?
Nulogy Supplier Collaboration connects a brand's planning system to real-time capacity, inventory and production status across every external partner, and supplier commitments flow into planning platforms like Kinaxis Maestro. Colgate-Palmolive saw a 200 basis point boost in service levels from closer collaboration in planning.
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How closer collaboration in planning raised service levels by 200 basis points.
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- Real-time capacity, inventory and production status across every partner
- Supplier commitments flow into planning platforms like Kinaxis Maestro
- Planners keep their existing planning tool