Industries - Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
In Fast Moving Consumer Goods (often referred as FMCG) industry,
agile supply chain and inventory management practices are absolutely crucial
to ensure stock availability and take inventory-carrying costs under control.
Meanwhile, manufacturers of FMCG products are being asked to do more with less
- including responding to growing retailer demands in pricing, packaging, and distribution.
Client Challenge
Our client is one of the world’s largest consumer goods company.
With a sophisticated, multi-level, nationwide retailing network in China,
the client faces increasing challenges from distributors and retailers to ensure timely order fulfillment,
accurate and on-time delivery, and responsive promotion activity cooperation.
CNL Solution
By utilizing our proprietary order consolidation and automated fulfillment
process and our transportation optimization system, HurryTop logistics consultants
helped the client greatly reduced order-to-delivery lead-time. HurryTop also leveraged
strong cash-flow position to participate in goods trading business by offering vendor-managed inventory
service so as to help the client dramatically reduced inventory carrying cost.
The Result
- a reduced order-to-delivery average lead-time from 4-5 days to 1-2 days
- reduced inventory carrying cost by 17%
- increased goods-dispatching accuracy from 91% to 99.5%