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1
Process Improvements (Six Sigma) As part of the Six
Sigma program at JCS, employees collaborating with one of
our largest customers developed an innovative and successful
way to improve order fulfillment percentage. This new
process increased JCS sales and profitability through estab-
lishing relationships between a point of sale forecast, cus-
tomer inventory levels and available inventory within the
JCS supply chain. Additionally, the process categorized prod-
uct inventory levels into seasonal groupings. This initiative
created incremental JCS sales and an increase in order fulfill-
ment rate for the customer; which ultimately resulted in an
increase in the customer’s sales to consumers. This was
achieved through both JCS and the customer being better
positioned to take advantage of seasonal promotions such as
the Thanksgiving promotion pictured on the right. This JCS developed process has since been
used by the customer as an example and benchmark for its other vendor relationships.
Beverage Innovation The beverage
product development team at
Jarden Consumer Solutions was
challenged with creating new offer-
ings to meet changing consumer
trends. Team members diligently
collaborated over several months
and successfully introduced a line of
new coffee products featuring styl-
ish colors and innovative materials.
In addition, the team developed a revolutionary new hot tea maker, effectively
creating an entirely new product category upon which to build. The result was
a winning combination— beverage sales outpaced industry growth and helped
drive an increase of over 15% in 2005 in this category.