Battle for India’s retail market: Who will rescue traditional stores from online retailers?
A replenishment based distribution system can help consumer good companies protect their traditional channel from being decimated by e-commerce.
Small is big
Find out a highly cost effective solution to reaching out to even the smallest of retailer point with a single tier distribution network
The unresolved conflict: Modern retail vs. consumer goods companies
Is a win-win solution possible for this ubiquitous tug of war over “margins” between brands and their retailers?
100% availability with less than half the inventory
Find out how stock replenishment time is the key to bringing down inventory in the entire distribution channel
A folly called trade promotions
Read about how the results of a field research into retailer behaviour indicates contrary to the entrenched belief in the consumer good industry
The devolution marketing
A large portion of what drove us into the Great Recession is rooted in this dysfunctional pattern of distribution.
Build to buffer
One challenge in the fashion industry is that forecasts often are wrong, especially at the individual item and retailer levels.
Who creates slow movers?
Read about how can companies convert slow-movers into a fast-mover
Power of availability
Find out how you can grow sales at double the market growth rate without any additional investment!
From inventory turns to norm turns
In Distribution centric organizations, the level of Inventory is perceived to be a critical measure to understand the health of the system (inventory with respect to sale).
The hockey stick syndrome
Read about how to break the omnipresent month end skew and release capacity
Managing distribution chain: Is there a better way than gazing the crystal ball?
Find out how companies can get the right material to the right place and ensure availability
Old is gold no more
Perishable goods industry is finding it increasingly difficult to live with the problem of low freshness of stocks at the point of sale. Find out how TOC can help?
TOC replenishment in a wholesale- dominated market, an oxymoron?
A lot of my friends in the distribution industry (and I have lots of them!) are quite intrigued by the fact
The road less travelled
Find out how companies can solve the sales dilemma with ‘pull’ mode of sales
Profitability percentage (%)
A good measure for evaluation of operational productivity should avoid the two errors—false positives and false negatives.
What enables effective decisions?
With cloud computing and ever reducing prices of storage systems, the available capacity to store data has gone up exponentially.
Counter counterfeiting
Find out how companies can fight fakes by leveraging their direct distribution
Preventing the demise of a store
Find out why retail stores die and how it can be prevented by implementing a TOC based supply chain.
Enhancing profitability of retail chains: Using the fundamental principles!
Despite significant mark-ups, most retail chains struggle to make profits. Find out how TOC can help?
Size does matter!
Find out how to prevent sale loss due to stock out of ‘sizes’ without inflating inventory
Leveraging franchisees for profitable growth in retail
Find out how to prevent sale loss due to stock out of ‘sizes’ without inflating inventory
Retailer’s dilemma
It is not uncommon for a manufacturing company to enjoy a profitability of around eight percent when the gross contribution is about thirty percent.
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