Additional Industries
The primary focus for Plan4Demand is in the Consumer Goods vertical with a special emphasis in Food & Beverage; however, over the years we have worked in a number of other industries. Our model employs supply chain best practices, tool kits, and solution sets that have benefited many diverse companies across multiple verticals. Plan4Demand brings a game-changing set of experiences into organizations, and sometimes, into their industry for the first time. These industries include:
- Chemical: Companies in this space face challenges ranging from network optimization and sourcing decisions all the way to products on the shelf in big box retailers. Often times, issues arise when there is a lack of infrastructure or culture to manage that level of velocity and variability.
- Footwear & Apparel: These companies are typically faced with very short product lifecycles, highly promoted seasonal items, and longer lead times due to distant product sources; all issues that require organizations to develop and maintain agile and fast moving supply chains, in an industry that sometimes puts a higher value on the creative side. Plan4Demand helps get these supply chains in place, so that the creative side can flourish.
- Specialty Retail: Many manufacturers have added a channel to the end consumer by creating their own retail outlet. Embedding the needs of that outlet into the supply chain so that it is a peer to the already existing channels is not as simple as it looks. Combining areas of portfolio management, retail level planning, and replenishment/fulfillment requirements are challenging, but the payoff can be huge in terms of consumer insight and a true sense of market demand.
- Life Science: While this space has a very unique set of supply chain challenges, most companies in this vertical are also faced with another dilemma – how to leverage the best practices of Consumer Goods organizations that have products going out through the same retail and drug store channels? Helping life science companies plan for these common points leads to reduced working capital and higher customer service levels.
- Wholesale Manufacturing & Distribution: More and more, industries that fall into these buckets are being compared to the supply chain models of the giants in retail and consumer goods. While these groups are often challenged due to much leaner margins, they have some of the same needs in supporting a continually diversifying customer base. Plan4Demand helps to ridge these disciplines at a reasonable cost point that creates improved operating margins, as well as competitive advantage in these spaces.
