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>> My name is Brian Laucher [phonetic].

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And I am currently in supply chain
planning for McNeil Consumer Healthcare.

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Supply chain planning, it
fits in the supply chain --

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management supply chain optimization space.

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And the idea is that we work with our
commercial partners to generate a forecast

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for how much the business expects
to sell of particular products.

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And then the supply planning
and inventory management side

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of the business is determining
how -- do we have enough capacity?

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Do we have enough manufacturing?

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Do we have enough raw materials in order to meet
that forecast, to ultimately be able to meet

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that forecast to ultimately be able to meet
customers demand when they need the products.

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On a daily basis, we are really
trying to ensure that, like I said,

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we have a enough product
available to meet customers needs.

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So the things that our team deals with are
looking at the amount of inventory that we have.

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Is there enough in our network.

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In our warehouses.

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In our DC's.

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We're actually looking out at
a system over time to ensure

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that not only do we have enough inventory today,
but do we have enough inventory next week;

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next month, or really even looking
two or three years out in the future

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to make sure we have enough capacity
and will have enough product available.

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So people on the team are taking a
look at do we have enough inventory?

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Are we getting our product available on time?

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Are our trucks late?

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Do we -- what's our forecast look like?

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How much has the forecast
changed since last month?

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And doing a lot of that data analysis
and trying to understand, again,

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will we have enough product to
keep up with demand and inventory.

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And a lot of what we do is -- in the
businesses that I've been in, are --

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have a very big seasonal component to it.

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So there's a certain time of the year
when we know that we're not going

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to have enough capacity available to
make all the product that we need.

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So we are always trying to look ahead and
decide how much do we need to produce,

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and when do we need to produce it in
order to have it available for the season.

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