We have a wide range of skills and experience in supporting retailers from different sectors with their daily challenges.
We know that retailers face the challenges of difficult to predict demand and their customers’ increasing awareness and rapidly evolving shopping habits. To meet these challenges, retailers need to focus on agility, innovation and above all process efficiency and speed.
Retail supply chains are becoming ever faster and ever shorter. This makes new technologies and investment in supply chain and logistics process improvement an integral part of a well-functioning retail supply chain.
Graphene Partners provide our clients with a professional and comprehensive supply chain advisory service. The improvements we help implement our clients stay at the forefront of developing trends in the retail market.
We help our clients in developing flexible, service-oriented logistics platforms that operate at optimum cost. We are highly qualified in inventory optimisation, sales forecasting, conducting risk assessments and promotion planning to support high on-shelf availability (OSA) of products in multiple store formats and locations. We support clients in defining and deploying a user-friendly methodology and process to integrate POS data to create an accurate demand plan. Our expertise spans ambient, fresh, chilled and frozen categories.
We support our clients to improve the performance and visibility of inbound supply chains bringing goods from the Far East, helping to balance optimal inventory levels with maximum availability of directly sourced goods. We advise and support the deployment of Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), country of origin consolidation and import de-consolidation.
We have supported multiple non-food retailers in developing supply chains that enable growth in multi-channel sales across wide product ranges. Implementation of user-friendly yet consistent range control policies and processes supports significantly wider product ranges online than are available in store.
We provide support and services to our customers who struggle with the growing need for customisation – producing a short series of products tailored to individual tastes and needs. Closely linked with this trend is the technological revolution, which directly impacts shortening the life cycle of cell phones, computers and other electronic devices. Nowadays, it can be compared to the life cycle of fashion products, which reach a short phase of maturity during the season, after which demand rapidly declines.
As a company, we have extensive experience in these industries, and our customers receive comprehensive assistance in analyzing and predicting product life cycles, efficiency in the supply chain (from production to delivery) and the ability to compete with online asset-light offerings, price and service.
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Case Studies
Selected Projects
- Initiation of supplier’s logistics performance measurement and monitoring processimplementation
- Defining set of KPI suppliers to be monitored against
- Creation monitoring process
- Complete European network design (5 DCs),
- design and optimisation for omnichannel
- development implementation approach and execution roadmap
Comprehensive tender management for warehouse and e-com fulfilment in Poland and Italy
Negotiations, contracting 3PL responsible for the organization of distribution transport for the leading retailer in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary
Transportation tender strategy, documentation and execution. Route planning.
Redesign distribution & transportation strategy, design implementation plan for spoke and hub complex distribution
Comprehensive tender, negotiations, contracting and implemetation of 3PL for warehousing and distribution
Comprehensive 3PL audit and improvement programme for warehouse and transportation
3PL tender (DC and transportartion, both domestic and international), negotiations and contracting, plus stock optimisation
Reconstruction of dry food and non food supply chain of leading Polish retailer. It included: planning, ordering, stock management warehouse location, tender management for new 3PL partner (DC and transportation) plus implementation support
Select and contract 3PL for omnichannel DC (70.000 m2), select and contract automation vendor, implement selected solution.
Process improvement and cost reduction of the central retail and e-com warehouse
Consolidation and streamlining of warehouse processes.. Select and contract new warehouse
Preparation of a logistics strategy for 2017 – 2022. Benchmark of the existing solutions with best practices
Support during transportation tender. Tender documentation and strategy. Route planning.
Network modelling. Re-design of the location of transportation hubs