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Express estate as well as Tesco PFS and
          Alliance/Esso PFS sites.

          Finally our summer marketing plans are
          almost finalised… watch this space for a
          special announcement about the new voice
          of Zip that will be featuring across Radio X &
          Capital over the summer in the next edition
          of Newsbites.

























          Gazelle update
                                                              in the coming months, the timings were
                                                              driven by the delays and business responses
          With the recent implementation of CBP into          needed due to the pandemic we have and are
          BPS, we are now live in all 4 Divisions across      living through.
          Demand and Customer Business Planning.
          The teams are actively creating base and            In GB and Ireland, there is still some
          promotional plans as the start point for the        training to be delivered around accruals
          ongoing monthly                                     management now that we are actively
          business plan. The                                  making necessary adjustments in the cycle
          Agency businesses are                               as part of customer trading and a further
          going to be the first to go                         phase of exception reports will be rolled out
          live with the final                                 across the business units in March. These
          workstream which is                                 reports will drive knowledge on exceptions
          Supply Planning. Thanks                             – highlighting key issues and asking specific
          to the work of Michael and Alisha in systems        questions, saving time, focusing on those
          testing and, at the time of writing, the wider      issues and making people aware of key areas
          GB and Ireland supply planning teams are            of concern that need actioned. If things are
          making great progress in their user testing         set up right first time, many of these will
          and getting familiar with how to use the            return ‘no data’ or blank so people can be
          new tools to plan based on those demand             reassured there is no further action. They
          forecasts from CBP and IBP, managing stock          have been live in Drinks for over 6 months
          in hand, in transit and known brand own-            and will be a useful tool for the Agency
          er lead-times. This is a fantastic landmark         Businesses.
                            achieved for the Gazelle
                            program so well done to
                            everyone involved in getting
                            us here and thank you. I look
                            forward to further Supply roll
                            outs across BPS and Drinks
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