河南省非金属矿业中小企业未来如何发展研究分析报告..ppt

Four strategies address the inefficiencies found in the study -- Replenishment -- a big opportunity here -- far too much inventory stored throughout the supply system -- need to improve the flow of product and information Promotions need to move away from loading the retailer to selling the consumer -- this is a requirement to tackle the replenishment opportunities. Efficient new item introductions need to be meet real consumer needs and move from being focused on get the retailer to buy to the manufacturer and retailer working together to sell the consumer. Assortment -- variety is good duplication is inefficient -- reduce duplicate items improve variety Some retailers have chosen to look at ECR and Category Management in this way... that ECR works on the supply side of the equation, following the flows of product, money and information to produce savings . Unfortunately, a lot of folks stop there. Why ? Because the supply side is the easy place to start and stop. It where we have always been doing business. Manufacturers have been focusing on making money by selling more to Retailers and Retailers have been focusing on making money by buying smarter from manufacturers. So focusing on the supply side is easy, it in our DNA. The Future Vision is a fully integrated, Paperless System. The latest ECR vision is that Store Point-of-Sale (POS) data will be sent electronically to their headquarters. A Just in time Purchase Order will then be generated and sent electronically to the Supplier. The Supplier loads and ships the product to the customer and electronically sends an Adanced Shipment Notice to the customer that notifys them in advance what exactly is on the shipment and automatically updates their Purchase Order. At the same time, the Supplier also electronically sends an invoice to the customer. The Customer receives and scans the product into their system, and electronically matches the shipment to the updated PO. They electronically send Pay