Transactional day to day inventory planning to ensure greater availability for consumers and maximised sales opportunities. Inclusive of:

• Order placement

• Inventory management [across all stages of lifecycle from new line to clearance]

• Optimising stock cover in DCs

• Working capital

• Promotional forecasting and sales reporting

• Events and seasonality

• Range reviews and pack changes

Our goal is to minimise surprises to your business with effective demand planning. We'll integrate scan forecast, display requirements and safety stock to establish baseline forecasts, promotional lifts, and seasonal profiles so that your stock cover is protected throughout the year.

We help you to manage the relationship with your carrier, the retailer and retailer distribution centres.

Inclusive of:

• DC capacity escalations

• Delivery date changes

• Re-booking deliveries

• Rejections due to damages or temperature

• MLOR requests

• Dummy orders

• Transport bookings and disaster management

• Rail delays

• Derailments
  

For key events and range reviews we watch over your products, ensuring successful product launches and hassle-free peak seasons.

With an in-depth understanding of how the retailer’s inventory cycle works, we can advise on how to best align your inbound rosters to capture key trade periods, react to changes in demand and avoid capacity pinch points.

We work with you closely to manage your rosters for public holiday periods to ensure you have the most effective inbound coverage.

Even the best plans can be disrupted in the FMCG industry; Marigold Supply Chain has extensive experience in risk mitigation strategies but also will caretake your business through unexpected events. We document root causes and work on future-proofing your business.

Marigold are passionate about continuous improvement; industry demands and customer demands are constantly evolving, and we stay agile in our ways of working so that we can grow together. Supply chain efficiencies often require creative thinking and problem solving; Marigold has a diverse customer base, which allows us to refine different approaches to each unique business while also benefiting from what we’ve observed to be best practice.

We never stop learning and improving and we want to bring your business on that journey; Grow sales, reduce waste, optimise your business and improve your stock integrity throughout your supply chain. We’ll work with you on what you want to change, and support you to get to where you want to be.

Whether its weekly, monthly, annually or ad-hoc, Marigold Supply Chain Solutions will help to provide all of your reporting needs, either select from one of our pre-developed reporting options or let us tailor them to the needs of your business.

Our typical reporting includes: sales, waste and markdown, inbound service level, forecast accuracy, promotional performance, store availability, inventory holdings, working capital, network days cover, ex factory sales versus target.

• Improvement to delivery on time and in full results

• Improvement to store availability

• Sales growth year on year

• Reduction in waste and markdown through stock management

• Reduction in logistics costs through improved asset utilisation

• Reduction in picking costs through improved ordering cycles

• Reduced labor spend through improved forecast accuracy

• Reduction in inventory holdings through improved forecast accuracy