• Roundtable: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

  • Nov 23 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
  • Podcast

Roundtable: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

  • Summary

  • Optimising your supply chain is a surefire way to create competitive advantage. But it's a broad, fast-moving topic, so we've recruited customers and partners to share best practice and help find ways to refine operations, inventory, purchasing, and distribution.

    The bottom line is, if you're delivering products at lower costs with higher profit levels, you're succeeding. Easy peasy yeah?  


    The Experts:

    Neil Keegan – Head of Manufacturing at Automata, robotic lab solutions in London 

    Sam Walker – Systems Architect at Flowstore Systems, Lean manufacturing, engineering, production line and warehouse bespoke solutions in Uxbridge 

    Alex Townson – Head of Outsourced Supply Chain at FY formally known as young foodies, an incubator and community for ambitious FMCG brands - in London 

    Hugh Robinson - Transition and Transformation Senior Manager at flinder (a technology and data-led finance partner) 


    What's discussed when:


    6 mins - Demand planning best practice

    19 mins - Bottlenecks in robotics , OTIFs, Hidden Factory

    34 mins - bottlenecks in FMCG, managing lead times, mitigating risk, 'walking the line'

    40 mins - Automata's pivot and nearshoring

    47 mins - 3PM benefits

    52 mins - Inventory placement and warehouse efficiencies

    58 mins - Meeting customer expectations in the NHS and multichannel best practice

    105 mins - Reducing cost, capturing cost, BOMs, COGS

    108 mins - Performance, supplier analysis, component consolidation, pareto charts cut through,

    119 mins - Contribution margin and unit economics


    Watch or skim the highlights here

    How do you quickly optimise min & max stock levels in Unleashed? And other videos


    Inventory formulas & live inventory calculators


    Talk to one of our supply chain consultants – book a 20 min chat  


     

     

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