Bunzl Retail Supplies
Maintaining an efficient supply chain
The Challenge...
Bunzl Retail Supplies manages 16,000 product lines (SKU’s) across 70 categories and works with major retailers across the UK including Asda, Waitrose and Boots. Understanding the profitability of each product line, as well as purchasing patterns is critical to maintaining an efficient supply chain.
However, with no real-time data analysis available across the business, Bunzl Retail Supplies could not easily understand enough detail around customer buying habits and the affect this was having on stock levels and delivery costs.
This in turn could produce redundant stock that carried a financial liability. What reporting they did have in place only generated this required level of data every 3 months and as the data was held in three main source systems, integrated analysis was still difficult.
The Solution...
- Sales order analysis by product line, category and customer
- Inventory analysis and delivery point profitabilityÂ
- Workforce and operational management performance analysis
"Our business is often about understanding what customers are NOT doing, it’s about exceptions. We needed much more granularity of detail around sales, not just a headline figure. Finding out that we hadn’t sold what we expected to 3 months after the event was causing us some real problems in stock management and profitability."
Jason Greenway, Managing Director
Results and benefits...
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