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Procter & Gamble Case Paper
Procter & Gamble is one of the largest consumer-goods manufacturers in the world with 19+ billion dollar brands from health and beauty care products to paper products. In the mid-1980's, P&G management launched several projects to improve service and reduce costs across the supply channel. The first effort emphasized the logistics system that currently existed between retailers/wholesalers and manufacturers, more specifically P&G. They focused their efforts on improving supply logistics and reducing channel inventory through a process that became known as continuous replenishment, or CRP. The second project was to revise the ordering and billing system to improve total ordering and service quality for channel customers. Both of these undertakings would require the involvement of electronic data interchange (EDI) to transmit data daily to create efficiency in the supply chain. After developing and thriving under the new logistics processes, Procter &......

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