Companies representing the A-Z of consumer goods have so far participated this year,including H.J.Heinz,Mars,L'Oreal and Unilever.
The workshop demonstrates the increase in operational efficiency and customer focus that becomes possible once resource tasked with low value activity can be realigned.Peter Surtees,European Supply Chain Director at Kimberly-Clark outlined some of those benefits.Kimberly-Clark have seen a per annum increase in order accuracy of 30%,and a reduction in open queries and days sales outstanding by 2,200 and 10 days respectively.
Beyond the Perfect Order is a unique platform for senior FMCG supply chain and customer service people to network,understand,and plan order to cash process and technology improvements.It is a joint venture between automation technologists OmPrompt and FMCG benchmarking consultancy,Simply Supply Chain.
OmPrompt,an award-winning business-to-business connectivity platform,enables all members of a supply chain community to exchange business transactions in whatever format suits their individual needs.Customers simply send what they have and receive what they need.OmPrompt provides the necessary infrastructure,message transformation and delivery services to achieve 100%inter-connectivity amongst trading communities,efficiently automating the exchange of transactional data between respective information systems and processes.
