Foodpreneur with Chelsea Ford

#106 Supply Chain By Design: How to Get Stock to Stores.

Chelsea Ford / Cameron Aboud and Joost Bekker Season 10 Episode 106

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Are you scaling your food, drink or pet treat brand and have taken time to think about how to get stocked into all the stores you’ve successfully landed? What about how much it’s costing you to store inventory rather than landing it on the retail shelf? Or how much each carton is costing you to deliver so you can work out what your precise CLOGS are?

You quite possibly haven’t!!!

Supply chain is not the first thing Foodpreneurs think about as they’re making amazing products. Well… that is until they’re scaling and got to get product into many, many different locations and make sure there’s enough to fulfil orders but not too much that it ties up cash. These and other supply chain by design processes are the expertise of my guests in this episode, Cameron Aboud and Joost Bekker from sc3sixty logistics management. They’re the supply chain masterminds behind the global expansion of the hangover-busting dream team that created Bae Juice, and countless other brands!

If you want to get stock to stores without it costing a tonne of money, listen to what Cameron and Joost have to say about:

🚚 The exact steps of a well functioning supply chain including what’s the ideal storage, transport and inventory planning solution.
🚚 Calculating the cost per carton.
🚚 Avoiding all your stock being tied up in a warehouse going out of date rather than on shelf making money.
🚚 What supply chain acronyms like DIFOT, 3PL, 4PL, 5PL, FTL, LCL, POD + more mean, so you can talk with your provider like a supply chain superstar.

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