Financial Analysis and Budgeting for FMCG Supply Chain

Running head: FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND BUDGETING
Financial analysis and budgeting
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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND BUDGETING
Table of Contents
Comparative analysis of Colgate and Crest toothpaste..............................................................2
Global supply chain and value creation:....................................................................................2
Procurement:..............................................................................................................................3
Role of logistics in supply chain value creation:.......................................................................3
FMCG supply chain:..................................................................................................................4
Inventory management and operations related to sustainability of supply’s value chain:.........5
Financial analysis:......................................................................................................................5
Strategic challenges and changes for FMCG supply chain in the future:..................................5

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND BUDGETING
Comparative analysis of Colgate and Crest toothpaste
Global supply chain and value creation:
The Procter and Gamble Company are implementing the biggest supply chain that
would assist in redesigning of history of company. Ability of organization to achieve cost
targets and meet the needs of customers is dependent upon the ability of maintaining supply
and manufacturing arrangements. This involves simplification of supply chain and in this
area; the company is in the midst of cost savings and productivity (Barua and Saha 2015).
Colgate on other hand is actively engaged in building supply chain and they have
strong presence of financial supply chain that intends to improve operating margin. The
global supply chain of Colgate is managed using forty five manufacturing sites around the
world. In earlier years, there was regional organizing of value chain in accordance with a
system of continuous improvement in manufacturing. Operations of supply chain of Colgate
has been transformed using the strategy of smart manufacturing that intends to improve end
to end execution and planning, designing of more agile supply chains, achieving operational
excellence and making greater use of analytics for addressing complex issues. Aim of
creating sustainable supply chain is to be even more customer focused that helps in driving
profitable and sustainable growth (Schmidgall and DeFranco 2016).
Significant progress has been witnessed on automation, integration and digitization of
operations of global supply chain. A control system such as In touch, Wonderware Inbatch
and historian is employed organization. Function of supply chain of Colgate moves forward
with the efforts of analytics and automatics. Improved visibility and alignment has been
experienced in the operations of global supply chain due to digitization efforts taken by
organization. In current scenario, the focus of Colgate is on building capabilities and
implementation of system by preparing its workforce.