ADVISORY/Sara Lee Household & Body Care, a Prescient Customer, Reveals Results Achieved Through Effective Demand Management At CGIT.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Thurs. (Oct. 16) --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHAT: At the 2003 Consumer Goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and Technology Conference, Gary Kahler, director of sales & operations planning at Sara Lee
Sara Lee Corporation (NYSE: SLE) is a global consumer-goods company based in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. Household & Body Care, will reveal how the maker of shoe care, furniture care and personal care products including Kiwi kiwi (kē`wē) or apteryx (ăp`tərĭks), common name for the smallest member of an order of primitive flightless birds related to the ostrich, the emu, and the cassowary. , Endust and Ambi Pur Pur (pûr) [Heb.,=lot], in the Bible, lot cast by Haman to determine the time for the murder of the Jews. See Purim. achieves more accurate demand forecasting by using collaboration between demand planning and its sales force. The presentation, "Demand Management: The 360-Degree View," will discuss the company's demand planning process and how it used supply chain planning technology to optimize optimize - optimisation its manufacturing and distribution assets from the enterprise level down to an individual warehouse for a specific customer, brand or SKU (StockKeeping Unit) The number of one specific product available for sale. If a hardware device or software package comes in different versions, there is an SKU for each one. SKU - stock-keeping unit , resulting in reduced finished goods inventory and improved customer satisfaction by minimizing stock-outs. WHERE: 2003 Consumer Goods Technology Conference Portofino Bay Hotel, Orlando www.consumergoods.com/conferences_2003/index.shtml WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003, at 11:40 a.m. ET ABOUT PRESCIENT pre·scient adj. 1. Of or relating to prescience. 2. Possessing prescience. [French, from Old French, from Latin praesci : Prescient is one of the fastest-growing providers of supply chain planning solutions to consumer products companies. Prescient 5, the company's flagship software, covers the four key areas of supply chain planning: Demand, Supply, Collaboration and Performance Measurement. Prescient 5 is one of the industry's first fully integrated supply chain planning suites, architected with a common data model and user interface across all modules to ensure rapid implementation, ease of use and low total cost of ownership. Household brand names like The Dial Corporation, Domino's, Binney & Smith (Crayola Brand), AAi.FosterGrant and Wyeth Consumer Healthcare rely on Prescient. For more information, visit us on the Web at www.prescientsystems.com. |
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