Lean thinking etched the concept of ‘PULL’ in the mind of supply chain professionals which in-turn popularized the concept of sales based Replenishment Planning. Don’t try to forecast sales. Hold inventory for the replenishment lead time and just replenish what was sold. Sales are what actual customer pull is. Replenishment planning proposed to take out...

Athena, the amazing, loved mathematics. She was good with numbers. That’s why her friends fondly called her ‘The Amazing Athena’. Athena had recently joined a large FMCG company to head the finance function. She was very happy to have got this opportunity. The company had a big product portfolio, had a bunch of star products...

Jonny was not little anymore. He was the owner of Fastrade, a short term trading company that mainly dealt in perishable goods like fruits and vegetables. In a short span of 10 years, he had grown the company to a USD 100 million topline. Although his net margins were wafer thin at 0.5% to 2%,...

With COVID-19 cases increasing exponentially even after 3 weeks of complete lockdown, prolonged lockdown is expected. In a country like India, where a majority of population depend on daily wages for survival, a complete shutdown for a prolonged period is not sustainable. Limited testing with densely populated areas will surface sporadic cases over a longer...