industry
fresh food distributor
($2 billion revenue)
business challenge
to identify the primary factors that were driving costs to climb and margins to erode
solution
product analysis
descriptive • diagnostic analytics
supply chain • finance • sales
data governance • organize and tie together data by each supply chain component • analyze profitability of each SKU
- reduced
costs by re-architect Customer Delivery routes
- explored
conversion of some Free-On-Board (FOB) Inbound Transportation to managed transportation
- addressed
negative margin position of specific SKUs
- identified
supply chain-related Data Quality issues
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