It is almost time for our next Gumption Café! Nipro Medical Europe and VERFORA share their best practices for a flexible supply chain. Did you sign up?
🗓️ Wednesday 8 November
📍 Ghent (Heusden)
How to improve the agility and cost of your supply chain while maintaining or improving customer service levels? How to improve demand planning and achieve realistic forecasts?
Rapid organic growth, coupled with an aggressive mergers and acquisitions strategy, had left Nipro Medical Europe navigating a labyrinth of hardware, consumables, and spare parts stock points across the EMEA region. This complexity strained not just customer service standards but also internal operational efficiencies. Presented with this challenge, Nipro initiated an ambitious thought experiment: 'Suppose we could reboot our business anew; how would we ideally structure our distribution network flows?'
The overhaul began with a comprehensive audit, mapping out the existing logistics flows and evaluating the capacity of the current distribution network. Key stakeholders contributed through in-depth interviews, while a thorough analysis of historical customer demand and logistics performance data was conducted. Eager to discover how this strategic reimagining unfolds? Stay tuned until 8 November!
VERFORA distributes pharmaceuticals, mainly in Switzerland. Thirty brand managers are responsible for product planning. This is a complex exercise. Ulrich Gafafer, Head of Business Planning & Supply Chain, explains how they made the process many times more efficient and accurate with an application for demand planning and workflows. AI and historical data help brand managers to create realistic forecasts. Thanks to SAP integration, orders can be created automatically. Verfora is now able to respond much faster to market fluctuations.
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