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Who has the top consumer packaged goods and retail supply chains?

Each year, SCDigest reports on the annual survey results from Cannondale Associates, which ranks the top consumer packaged goods industry supply chains and the top retail supply chains in the primary store segments that sell those packaged goods products.

The full Cannondale survey and report, which it calls PowerRankings, was released in late 2009 and covers a number of company performance measures for both consumer goods manufacturers and retailers, including such areas as brand power, marketing programs, sales teams, overall business fundamentals, etc., as well as supply chain.

A report by Honeywell has highlighted potential savings within direct store delivery (DSD) processes for FMCG suppliers.

As many consumer goods suppliers continue to report growing business challenges, a new report from Honeywell has found that millions of dollars can be saved by evaluating and improving direct store delivery (DSD) operations, in the way that products are ordered, sold, delivered and merchandised.

The report, which contains feedback from 350 C-level consumer goods executives and directors from across the globe, finds that 49 per cent of organisations feel increased transportation costs have severely impacted profit margins in the past 12 months. But those organisations that have carried out process evaluations (known as process re-engineering) in the past year to improve their DSD processes have cut, or expect to cut, costs on average by $734,000 annually.

Additionally, approximately 20 per cent of all respondents have experienced, or expect to experience, at least $1 million a year in tangible cost-savings through DSD process re-engineering, and about 20 per cent of companies with 3,000 or more employees anticipate saving at least $3 million.