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Supply chain planning for beauty, cosmetics and pharma retail
Practical articles written for supply chain directors, purchasing managers and planners. Short, concrete, and based on what we see in distribution networks.
How to forecast Ramadan and Eid demand for cosmetics
Ramadan moves eleven days earlier every year. A forecast that copies last year's weeks will be wrong twice: before the month and after Eid. Here is how to align history, which categories move, and how to order.
Read the articleFrom Excel to validated order proposals: a four-week plan
Moving a 20-store network from spreadsheet ordering to validated proposals does not take a year. It takes four weeks, a clean ERP export and one planner who wants it to work. Here is the plan we run.
Read the articleTesters and gifts with purchase: stop losing them in stock
Every launch consumes testers. Every campaign ships gifts with purchase. In most networks nobody knows how many, where, or whether they were sold by mistake. Here is what it costs and the rules that fix it.
Read the articleLot and expiry management for parapharmacy chains
Lots expire in one pharmacy while the same reference is out of stock two pharmacies away. The fix is not more stock. It is stock by lot, an alert before expiry, and a transfer proposal in time.
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