Gerber

Helping streamline the supply chain operations to combat lower costs

JRC surveyed the North American Gerber Products Co. plant and constructed a prioritized list of key cost improvement areas within the Supply Chain. This included packaging inventory reduction, reduced product damage, reduced manufacturing complexity and improved flexibility.

Business Challenge

Market pressures and low cost country sourcing meant that Gerber was recognizing the need to improve processes and cut costs. They knew that some of their production lines were inefficient but because the lack of activity based costing and accurate inventory control they were finding it difficult to identify exactly which product lines should be targeted for change. The challenge was to prioritize which areas to tackle first to bring the largest and most sustainable benefit.

Value Delivered

The JRC project team delivered significant cost and process benefit on the key cost improvement areas which included: streamlining the product range by removing the proliferation of packaging styles; reducing procurement spend on materials through vendor consolidation and inventory reduction through re-organised production cycles. JRC also provided day to day technical support to assist the plant further to implement a wide variety of supply chain and manufacturing projects through re-training employees and configuring new specifications and procedures.

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