Improving the Full Cost of Providing Cosmetics Products

Presentation

Our client, a world leader in the cosmetics industry, wants to improve the full cost of making its products available in Latin America. KEPLER offers to set up a Based Costing activity to improve warehouse storage and modeling operations.

Context

A regional network design for the Latin & Central America zone which has been in place for two years
Increasing Supply Chain costs generated by this new organization (+1.5 points in 1 year)
A 64,000m² regional warehouse dedicated to the local market (Mexico) and serving the national platforms in the area
Reception operations (350,000 pallets / year), storage (65,000 positions – including 30% broken down in detail) and preparation (~ 600 pallets / day) which supply the local market and export

Objective

Category: Improve Responsiveness and Secure Availability

Improving regional warehousing operations

The methodology deployed allowed the objectivation of performance comparisons, between zones, distinguishing local factors
Lysiane Bessonnet, Director

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Supply Chain Referents

Lysiane Bessonnet

Director

Lysiane graduated from Audencia Business School, and holds a CSCP certification from APICS. She started her career in consulting as Procurement and Supply-Chain specialist. She joined…

Lysiane Bessonnet

Lysiane Bessonnet

Director

Lysiane graduated from Audencia Business School, and holds a CSCP certification from APICS. She started her career in consulting as Procurement and Supply-Chain specialist. She joined KEPLER in 2009 where she became leader of the Supply-Chain practice. She specializes in the Consumer Goods, Manufacturing and Distribution sectors.
Yannig Le Roux

Director

Engineer with a degree from Mines Paris – PSL and certified CSCP by APICS, Yannig Le Roux has over 18 years’ experience in the FMCG industry, where he occupied operational…

Yannig Le Roux

Yannig Le Roux

Director

Engineer with a degree from Mines Paris – PSL and certified CSCP by APICS, Yannig Le Roux has over 18 years’ experience in the FMCG industry, where he occupied operational positions in Production, Procurement and Product Development before moving into consulting and joining KEPLER in 2019. Yannig has a 360° vision of industrial challenges, and is involved in global diagnostics and transformation plans, as well as in missions more focused on his areas of expertise.