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ROUTE-TO-MARKET
Reach Your Market Demand
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A Route-To-Market strategy defines how much you will sell, of what, where and how.
Route-To-Market has a commercial intent and aims to define how to increase market shares, coverage and revenue. It then drives the supply chain strategy and the design of the network that will serve the future demand across the market. The process requires balancing financial, operational, commercial and sustainability trade-offs. Route-to-Market helps all departments to develop a common enterprise vision where transformation projects, evolution milestones, investments, and returns projections are clearly defined.
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How is demand volume and mix expected to evolve geographically? How will it be distributed across the country or the region? It first requires local market size, competition, local market shares and expected evolutions to be specified. Then the points of sales available in each area and how much of these should be covered to increase volumes are identified. This is called the Demand Landscape. Then comes the Supply Chain side of RTM: determining how the future demand will be served, through which distributors, via which warehouse, from which factory, for how much cost-to-serve. An optimum network is designed and a roadmap is drafted to formalise the different steps toward coverage expansion. CEL Route-To-Market program is an outside-in approach to define who and where your future customers will be and how you can be serving them most optimally.
Route-To-Market strategies are defined in 3 steps:
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Future
Demand Landscape
Where & How Much
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Future
Distribution Network
How
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Transition
Roadmap
When & Who
Administrative areas
Climate conditions
Demographics
Econometrics
Retail universe
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1/ DEMAND LANDSCAPE
Demand landscaping is about combining the right data layers, integrating channels, portfolio mix, growth assumptions and creating a model where input variables (population, number of stores, consumption profiles etc.) can be transformed into volume of sales per category of products. We draw a precise picture of what the market landscape looks like today and what it can become in 2,3 or even 10 years.
Future Demand
Once we have a precise representation of the market, it's about deciding where to fight for market shares and where to set back. We drive discussions and debates and we blend data and market insights so a market coverage expansion strategy can be defined together with Sales and Marketing team members. A consensus around the expected evolution of the demand landscape helps to align everyone around facts and figures and avoid blurry intents, too broad objectives and unsubstantiated growth targets.
Sales Territory Definition
To get practical a market landscape needs to be broken down into operational areas that can be allocated to distributors, local sales teams or commercial partners. The objective is to draw sensible geographical clusters in which each distribution point can cover effectively a number of Point-Of-Sales. Both quantitative and qualitative approach is needed to create a compelling Demand Landscape.
Now the future demand landscape is characterized, geolocalized and quantified, it's time to address the question: How we are going to serve these demand points?
2/ NETWORK DESIGN
This phase relies on advanced network simulation allowing the testing of different logistic scenarios for each channel (modern trade, general trade, professional, and export), product category, product types (i.e. temperature, dangerous goods, bulk, cartons, etc). Check the Network Design page to know more about how we help you design your future optimum distribution network.
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3/ TRANSITION ROADMAP
Now we have a picture of the desired future, it's time to plan. This phase requires the involvement of Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain so the sequence of actions are coordinated across functions. Macro tasks are defined and allocated to specific resources and timed over the transition period. Milestones and expected financial projections are formalised into a cross-functional transition roadmap.
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