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Frederic Gaurier• Two decades of experience gathered as operational manager,
total quality assessment officer, management and continuous improvement consultantimprovement consultant
• More recently, head of supplier performance improvement for a leading international luxury goods manufacturer.
• Founder in 2011 of SelfPerf.com, aimed at giving simple access to operations basic best practices– proofed on the field by organizations from 10 to 10.000proofed on the field by organizations from 10 to 10.000– in industry, service, B2B, B2C, exclusive or consumer goods – in America, Europe and Asia, in more than 15 countries
This session in 100 words• The new business paradigm is based on shorter life cycles,
greater amount of special deals, enriching standard products distribution.
• As an example, in “fashion” business, operations are driven by seasonal products and "sell thru" monitoring has become a classical practice. This could be used as an inspiration.
• Discover how a simple, single, well chosen KPI can align the whole supply chain and stimulate coordinated continuous improvement, from supplier's suppliers to final customer's storesstores.
• As an example, practices and results from last 5 years experience are shared, applying also to small and medium‐sized businesses.
Common calculation of SellThruin a retailing store
Sales in period Inventory beginning of period
• Measured in %
• Example : – 100 pants #A sold this week100 pants #A sold this week– Inventory item #A on last Monday morning = 800– SellThru item #A is 100/800 = 12,5% this week
In retail, SellThru is also used to trigger decisions and actions• For inventory monitoring
C (i b f i d) 1 / S llTh ( i d)– Coverage (in number of period) = 1 / SellThru (period)Ex.: with 800 items #A, you cover 8 weeks of sales– Replenishment: overrides order point if > alert levelEx.: 50% SellThru this week with usual 3 weeks replenishment
• With a dynamically and consolidated view– Increasing: means “reorder more” – Decreasing: questions selling efficiency or customer’s interest
• Whole supply chain is reactive to demand evolutionis reactive to demand evolution
• Everyone in the chain acts in same direction
• Action of one has an impact for all
• This requires coordination– SellThru objectivesSellThru objectives– SellThru alert levels to stop or trigger supply– Priority settings for actions on sales or inventory
• Manufacturing can react without waiting for the classical successive replenishment orders ofclassical successive replenishment orders of distribution levels
• Inventory of finished goods is monitored from the beginning, in order to have the relevant global level
• The only focus of distribution can be the speed of e o y ocus o d s bu o ca be e speed oflows from manufacturing to point of sales and the balanced response to actual demand
The classical approach drives more local optima than global efficiency• Each step has an inventory calculated
– To cover demand variability with a safety stock (SS)To cover demand variability with a safety stock (SS)– To ensure a service level depending on the choice of Z
• Usual performance is based on – Targeted service level of each step– Standard lead time at expected cost and budget compliance
• Therefore, monitoring is based on, g– Each steps performance and KPIs local optimization– Global performance costs, margin, sales, ads efficiency
Limits of classical approach: a trade‐off between cost and service quality• Replenishment is long from manufacturing to POS
– Products are mainly « pushed » to meet demand, because y p ,« pulling » is not satisfactory for customers (too long waiting) or for the company (missed sales)
– High service level requires multiple high inventory levels
• Monitoring is focused on results of each step– Considering that the « sum of parts should make a whole »– Forgetting what happens between steps, because g g pp p ,responsibilities are clearly defined, so « who cares… » ?
• Performance becomes mainly point of sales’ problem
Additional issues created with cross channel distribution• From multi‐channels’ separated supply chains
– Distribution served from central or regional warehouseDistribution served from central or regional warehouse– Owned stores served from warehouses, with priority– Phone‐selling, served from a central warehouse– E‐commerce served from usually dedicated warehouse
• … to integrated SCM responding to customer– Store + Internet + Phone Call with same expected service
l l h d b k– Requires 1 single central point within distribution network in order to manage balance, priorities and monitor service levels according to selling channel with equal importance
Additional issues created with cross channel distribution• 80% to 90% of product launches miss the expected targetsmiss the expected targets when a multi‐channel distribution exists(source = Gartner group study ‐ 2012)
• Replenishment rules are different between channels
• Data process and management rules areData, process and management rules are usually contradictory
Work differently with SellThru as unique and shared KPI• Working on processes higher speed
L i t i t– Lower inventory requirements– Quicker replenishments – Reactivity to final customer demand
• Shorter lead times are obtained by– Reliability: reduction of internally created variabilityy y y– Elimination of wastes– Higher frequency of delivery with smaller lot sizes– Bottlenecks identification and elimination
Working on speed and inventory has created a momentum…• Each logistic step becomes a point where the throughput should be as quick as possibleg p q p– Work on incoming, cross‐dock and outgoing flows
• Safety stock is managed once in central warehouse– Allow 99% safety stock for similar costs– Reduction by √n compared to safety stock in n places– Rebalancing easy between channels and geography– Reactivity is high because minimum lead time to replenish points of sales (0,5 to 1,5 days maxi)
A maturity model becomes necessaryto align, educate and sustain action• Waste elimination and variability reduction is performed through quality and lean toolsperformed through quality and lean tools– Focused problem solving and root cause elimination– 20% to 60% lead time crunch done with field people
• Based on the success obtained in speed and inventory, a common maturity roadmap arisesa common maturity roadmap arises– Quicker improvement by selfassessment– Same language and practices, each other’s help stimulated
Case learning after 5 years of deployment and use• Dos
Focus on evolution (improvement) more than an absolute level– Focus on evolution (improvement) more than an absolute level– Select actions according to stakes and customer view– Periodically re‐assess where you are, where you go and adjust
action plan
• Don’ts– Do the assessment alone (better as steering committee activity)( g y)– Try to perform actions on all and every theme – Do it for the customer only, do it for yourself
• Sharing objectives and efforts timelyi di i b t ll t f th l h i– easier discussion between all actors of the supply chain
and all functional experts: synchronization of efforts in time and in subject matter
– less fight on figures and more time to analyze and take decisions
– less effort in KPIs calculation, consolidation and sharing as d b d ( f d fadministrative burden or IS requirements (1 set of data for KPI, instead of 1 per inventory location)