SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Production line Clamart , France
forecasts with retailers and hauliers ahead of time makes a huge difference to securing great availability .
Typically Christmas stock-building starts around the first week in November , but dispatching generally starts from the first week of December . This means our manufacturing teams need to be agile enough to have stock on the floor , but also build in headroom for peak times .
The technology and systems in our facilities can also help us save time . Earlier this year we opened a new € 20 million Automatic Storage & Retrieval System at our distribution centre in Dongen , The Netherlands . The new facility is designed to hold and automatically move pallets of bottles and cans , enabling us to more efficiently serve the needs of our customers , as well as to maximise the cargo space used in trucks .
Such technologies can be of real value to our retailers . For example , our pre-merchandised semi-pallets that
18 December 2014