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05/14/2012
Purchasing with strategy: Gelita AG creates new purchasing structure
Gelita, the world's largest manufacturer of gelatine, has fundamentally restructured its purchasing. With the implementation of global product group strategies, the company now has sustainable cost savings of more than 10 million euros per year. In addition, Gelita has created a new efficient organisation and developed a powerful IT and process landscape.
05/11/2012
Germany as the Model? Who performs best in the Germany-France SCM comparison?
Strategy, IT support, delivery reliability: The Germany-France comparison in the SCM study carried out by J&M Management Consulting, Logistik Heute, and the French publication, Supply Chain Magazine brings to light clear differences in important core areas of Supply Chain Management between these neighbours and trading partners.
04/24/2012
Market-oriented pricing system – GEA Farm Technologies realigns its pricing in the main international subsidiaries
With a market-oriented pricing strategy in the USA and Germany, GEA Farm Technologies (GEA FT) hopes to further grow overall company profits. GEA Farm Technologies offers its customers complete system solutions for the dairy industry – in addition to milking machines and feeding systems, for example, the planning of these facilities, spare parts management and, to a degree, servicing of the systems. However, harmonised and consistent pricing of products and services was difficult because the company tended to be product-focused and to operate at a local level. The main distribution channel was a network of independent dealers and GEA FT knew little about the dealers' prices to the end customers.
04/02/2012
Success factor e-commerce – J&M present at the SAP Retail Symposium in Frankfurt
Nowadays, customers of retail companies expect, as a matter of course, that they can order products via the internet, primarily from their own computer as well as via smartphone ‘on the move’. This poses new challenges to providers: How to align supply and logistic chains of e-commerce companies? How to define new web shop processes and integrate these most effectively into already existing internal processes?
03/22/2012
Process Health Check – J&M discusses new ways of Value Chain Optimization at forthcoming Life Science Conference
At the Business Process Conference for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices in London, April 25th - 27th 2012, Eithne Lee, Head of Life Science Consulting at J&M Management Consulting, will lead a cross functional debate on Business Processes Optimization across the Value Chain.
