Answer to Question #165911 in Management for Sinethemba

Question

Illustrate and discuss P&G’s supply chain clearly indicating the various flows involved.

Answer 1

P&G's supply chain excellence has been externally recognized by Gartner, a leading research and advisory company, with the release of its 2020 'Supply Chain Top 25' rankings. Gartner named P&G as one of five supply chain 'Masters' the sixth consecutive year P&G has earned this distinction. P&G’s supply chain has demonstrated customer-driven partnerships, advanced analytics, and corporate social responsibility. P&G’s supply chain involved large manufacturers, retailers, and distributors. It integrates its supply chain software with its suppliers, distributors, and retailers with a notion of joint business planning with key stakeholders, and to fully integrate different parts of the chain, it has employed digital business models that allow digital automation of workflows that allows high visibility of any movement in each step is a key to enable end-to-end model. Digital automation of workflows empowered by the use of technology-driven tools to reduce exceptions that enable end-to-end planning, connecting headquarters, manufacturing plants, distributor, and retailers. P&G has employed the key components of the supply chain which are Plan, Source, Make, Deliver and Return which has helped the company maximize customer value and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace globally. It has also employed an End-to-end Supply Chain Model implying from factory to shelf which has leveraged large-scale application of advanced analytics and digital technology to excel in its ability to manage a complicated global supply chain with more than 130 manufacturing sites serving over 180 countries.