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Gazelle Update have been live in Drinks and there is
With the recent implementation of CBP into
BPS, we are now live in all 4 Divisions across
Demand and Customer Business Planning.
The teams are actively creating base and
promotional plans as the start point for the
ongoing monthly business plan. The
Agency businesses are going to be the first
to go live with the final workstream which
is Supply Planning. This is a fantastic land-
mark 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 in the
coming months, the timings were driven by
the delays and business responses needed
due to the pandemic we have and are living
through.
In GB and Ireland, there is still some training
to be delivered around accruals management
now that we are actively making necessary
adjustments in the cycle as part of
customer trading and a further phase of
exception reports will be rolled out across
the business units in March. These reports
will drive knowledge on exceptions –
highlighting key issues and asking specific
questions, saving time, focusing on those
issues and making people aware of key areas
of concern that need actioned. If things are
set up right first time, many of these will
return ‘no data’ or blank so people can be
reassured there is no further action. They
renewed interest now in bringing these into
support the planning cycle more.
Following the pricing cutover at start of the
2021, the Agency divisions have reverted to
normal processes on billing. The alignment
and accuracy of pricing remains a key focus
for all Divisions as we strive for better ‘right
first time’ principles and make all
transactions more efficient. Ongoing, this
will need support and assistance from
Corporate Services to support this focus.
The Gazelle program comes to a conclusion
at the end of March and at this stage hands
over to Business As Usual Teams to drive
the ways of working and behaviours. The
businesses will be supported by a Business
Improvement team facilitating the
transitioning to these new ways of working
that Gazelle has delivered and to help
embed these processes to ensure our
people get the most out of the new tools.
Thank you to everyone in Corporate
Services who has been involved in getting
the Gazelle Programme live across all our
Divisions.
Alan