Promotional and merchandise

Supply chain management, promotional activation’s, social compliance, quality control, quality assurance

Few supply chains are as sophisticated and lengthy as those that support marketing campaigns via promotional items and merchandising materials. Few are as controversial, due to lack of the lack of traceability upstream across various countries and the plastic waste created downstream. We understand how to select the right partners, how to navigate around multi-layered supplier arrangements and how to manage the long leadtimes, cost and quality. With a transparent supply chain, you can manage social responsibility, and begin to close the recycling loop.

Case study: Using data analytics in complex supply chains

Across this global publisher, we realised benefit from the millions upon millions of data points that were going unused. Challenge: We worked within a globally distributed supply chain, where every product in every territory required dozens of individuals and multiple suppliers to collaborate to handle the bill of materials. This created countless reports and an [...]