Ensuring product availability through optimal stockholding

Making sure the basic building products are available when required by the customer is fundamental to the success of the merchant/distributor. Limited opportunities for product differentiation mean that an out-of-stock situation or delivery failure can push a customer into the arms of a competitor.

But where retail storage space is limited, lead times are often long and supplier performance variable, achieving the right stockholding can be challenging – particularly when the product range grows ever larger. Often price and profit appear to take the lead over quality and environmental issues when in fact all four can be managed together - with joint success.

One way of doing this is managing suppliers better. TDG has set up collaborative ventures involving buying groups or shared logistics. Similarly, we've expertise in sourcing product from overseas using our end to end and freight management capabilities.

Activities such as consolidation and collaboration simplify the supply chain and by their very nature reduce miles travelled miles and so contribute towards our clients' environmental ambitions.

Take a look at what we’ve achieved with some of our clients in other sectors, then get in touch.

Corus
ICI Paints