Demand and Inventory Planning Best Practices: Food and Beverage Industry

The success of your food and beverage business relies so heavily on good supply chain coordination. So when there’s a lack of harmony between the opinions of sales and marketing with those of manufacturing on what should be produced and when, there can be large repercussions throughout the business.

Challenges within the supply chain can lead to frequent changes in production schedules, expedited transfers and shipments in distribution, erratic levels of customer services, excessive stock-outs, lack of visibility into future demand, and inventory in the wrong place at the wrong time. Proper demand and inventory planning can help your supply chain run smoothly and improve your bottom line.

Our newest whitepaper, Best Practices in Demand and Inventory Planning for Food and Beverage Companies, presents the challenges involved in good supply chain coordination and then ideas about how to manage and contest those problems.

In this whitepaper, you’ll learn about best practices as they relate to:

• Supply Chain Functionality

• Inventory Policy

• Long-Range, Medium-Term and Short-Term Planning Horizons

• Production Planning

Download your copy of the whitepaper Best Practices in Demand and Inventory Planning for Food and Beverage Companies, and visit our resource center for other available eBooks and whitepapers.