Through a collaborative partnership United Biscuits and Musgrave have worked together to improve their promotions planning process. By aligning the promotions process both across different divisions within each company and between the two companies, promotional line wastage has reduced from 19.5% to 6.3%.

The Co-operative’s newest composite distribution centre, located in Newhouse, Scotland forms an integral part of ‘Project LIDIA’ – a programme of work established to deliver a complete overhaul of the DC network. The presentation will help you understand the role of the Newhouse DC in The Co-operative’s supply chain and explores the in-bound and outbound operation across three temperature regimes. The retailer has also implemented a range of sustainability initiatives at this site, establishing a new standard across the network.

Building trusting partnerships is a big part of Sainsbury's supply chain strategy. This means that “sharing information, being clear about what will be shared in an open and honest manner is an essential part of our strategy”. Phase I of Sainsbury’s Vendor Managed Inventory initiative was implementing a trial with CCE. This case study will provide you an overview of how Coca-Cola Enterprises and Sainsbury’s worked together to build these enablers, and delivered results for their businesses.

Through a number of sustainable distribution initiatives, Musgrave has reduced overall costs by 5% and is on track to remove 1.25m kilometres from its supply chain operation. The retailer has achieved this through four separate initiatives including reviewing its ambient network, optimising its temperature controlled deliveries and introducing new material handling units to its supply chain.

Sainsbury’s and World Flowers have worked together to tackle volatility, order processes and waste within the floral category. By introducing a new process to fix orders and extend lead times, contingency stock in the supply chain has reduced and product life on-shelf has increased.

Working together through a collaborative project, Marks & Spencer and Uniq have improved forecast accuracy, availability and reduced waste. Read this case study to learn more on how they found a better way of managing their sandwich range.

Before 2008, Palmer and Harvey operated two separate distribution networks based on temperature regimes. One was dedicated to chilled and frozen products, the other for ambient goods. To improve supply chain efficiency, reduce costs and improve sustainability Palmer and Harvey engineered a significant change in its supply chain, consolidating its network to accommodate multi-temperature deliveries.

Having been informed by its customer, Tesco, that the service level was ‘not at the required standard’, AB InBev was put through Tesco’s ‘intensive care process’. Read this case study to better understand the five-part improvement plan that AB Inbev implemented, the challenges it faced and how it moved from ‘intensive care' to 'respected’ in Tesco’s three-box model.