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S&OP pour les fabricants : comment les fournisseurs d'envergure alignent la demande, les matériaux et la production

À son niveau le plus fondamental, la Planification des Ventes et des Opérations (S&OP, pour Sales and Operations Planning) est le processus transversal utilisé pour aligner les prévisions de ventes d'une entreprise avec sa capacité opérationnelle, la disponibilité des matériaux et ses objectifs financiers autour d'un plan opérationnel partagé. Bien qu'il soit souvent confondu avec un simple exercice de prévision ou une réunion mensuelle, un véritable S&OP agit comme le tissu conjonctif de l'entreprise.

Pour les fabricants et fournisseurs à grande échelle, le S&OP est le mécanisme qui traduit la stratégie commerciale de haut niveau en réalité quotidienne de l'atelier de production et du service achats. Il permet à l'organisation de s'éloigner des tableurs déconnectés pour tendre vers une version unique de la vérité, où les revenus, les politiques de stocks et les stratégies d'approvisionnement sont synchronisés.

Dans un environnement économique stable, les hypothèses de planification traditionnelles pourraient suffire. Cependant, nous ne vivons plus dans ce type de monde. Les approches S&OP conventionnelles reposent souvent sur une demande et une offre prévisibles, ce qui les rend inadaptées aux perturbations fréquentes et aux changements rapides de comportement des consommateurs que nous observons aujourd'hui.

Historiquement, la planification a été un exercice fragmenté. L'équipe demande crée une prévision, l'équipe approvisionnement étudie la capacité, et l'équipe achats gère les matières premières. Les équipes gèrent souvent leurs fonctions en totale isolation les unes des autres. Cette fragmentation coûte cher. Lorsque ces silos existent, les changements de demande n'atteignent pas les achats assez rapidement, et les contraintes de matières premières impactent les lignes de production bien trop tard pour ajuster les engagements pris envers les détaillants.

Les fournisseurs d'envergure utilisent désormais le S&OP pour apporter de la cohésion à des conversations isolées, évoluant vers ce que beaucoup appellent la Planification Intégrée des Activités (IBP, pour Integrated Business Planning). L'IBP représente la nouvelle génération du S&OP, intégrant explicitement les achats, les plans d'investissement et les arbitrages financiers dans le rythme opérationnel de base. Au lieu d'être en aval de la conversation de planification, la finance est désormais un acteur central, aidant l'organisation à comprendre quand la résilience vaut son coût et comment l'exposition aux stocks impacte le fonds de roulement.

Les fournisseurs d'envergure les plus performants traitent le S&OP comme un système d'exploitation utilisé pour prendre des décisions plus précoces et mieux informées concernant :

Aligner la demande, les matériaux et la production

Pour un fournisseur d'envergure vendant des produits finis à de grands détaillants tout en s'approvisionnant en matières premières en amont, le S&OP est le point de rencontre entre la demande des détaillants et la réalité amont. Cet alignement est la partie la plus difficile, et la plus critique, du processus.

1. Traduire la demande des détaillants en signaux exploitables

Un fournisseur peut disposer d'excellents signaux de demande provenant de ses partenaires détaillants, mais ces signaux sont inutiles s'ils ne sont pas immédiatement traduits en besoins matériels et en plannings de production. Dans l'environnement du commerce moderne, les modifications de bons de commande sont fréquentes. Un processus S&OP mature garantit qu'un pic de demande pour un SKU spécifique chez un détaillant comme Walmart ou Carrefour déclenche instantanément une vérification des niveaux actuels de matières premières et de la disponibilité des lignes de production.

L'alignement échoue souvent à cause d'angles morts dans la chaîne d'approvisionnement. Vous pouvez avoir la capacité de production pour répondre à la commande d'un détaillant, mais si un intrant d'emballage spécifique ou une matière première est en retard, le plan échoue.

Le S&OP permet aux responsables achats de donner une visibilité précoce sur ces contraintes afin que l'entreprise puisse ajuster ses engagements envers les détaillants 

 que la défaillance de service ne se produise.

3. Leçons concrètes en matière de synchronisation

Les enjeux de cet alignement sont mieux illustrés en comparant différents modèles opérationnels :

Visibilité des données et coordination avec les partenaires

On ne peut pas planifier ce qu'on ne peut pas voir. Le processus S&OP le plus sophistiqué au monde échouera s'il repose sur des données obsolètes ou inexactes. Une meilleure planification dépend d'un meilleur flux de données, pas simplement de meilleurs tableurs ou de réunions plus fréquentes.

Pour les fournisseurs d'envergure, cela signifie connecter les points entre les systèmes internes et les partenaires externes. Lorsque vous pouvez voir les commandes, les niveaux de stocks et les expéditions sur l'ensemble de votre réseau en temps réel, le décalage dans la prise de décision disparaît. Ce niveau de visibilité permet aux équipes de :

Dans le marché volatil d'aujourd'hui, le S&OP est une nécessité stratégique. Lorsque le S&OP fonctionne bien, il protège l'entreprise des surprises coûteuses, comme avoir trop de stocks au mauvais endroit ou être contraint de payer des frais d'expédition urgente considérables pour respecter les délais des détaillants.

En traitant le S&OP comme un système d'exploitation transversal reliant la demande, les matériaux et la production, les fournisseurs d'envergure peuvent faire bien plus que simplement survivre aux perturbations. Ils peuvent construire une chaîne d'approvisionnement résiliente et réactive qui transforme l'excellence opérationnelle en un avantage concurrentiel durable. L'objectif est simple : s'assurer que lorsqu'un détaillant passe une commande, vous disposez des matériaux, de la capacité et de la visibilité financière nécessaires pour la livrer de manière rentable.

Chez SPS Commerce, nous fournissons la visibilité fondamentale dont les fournisseurs d'envergure ont besoin pour synchroniser la demande fluctuante des détaillants avec la disponibilité des matériaux en amont, en temps réel. En connectant l'ensemble de votre réseau de partenaires commerciaux et en automatisant le flux des commandes, des stocks et des données d'expédition, nos 

 éliminent le décalage d'information qui cause des retards de production coûteux et des déséquilibres de stocks.

The Quiet Coordination Layer: How Multi-Agent AI Systems Are Connecting Retailer and Supplier Networks

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Artificial intelligence has moved through organizations in distinct waves.  

Early automation efforts focused primarily on eliminating repetitive tasks and improving efficiency within existing workflows. More recently, 

 accelerated interest in tools designed to help employees actually write the marketing scripts, summarize operations information, analyze industry data, and streamline day-to-day work. So, now a new category is beginning to reshape conversations at the executive level: 

Supply chain leaders, retailers, manufacturers, and suppliers increasingly encounter conversations around 

 and autonomous systems. Vendor presentations routinely position these technologies as transformational. Analyst firms publish research around agent ecosystems and next-generation operating models. Enterprise buyers are beginning to ask practical questions about where AI coordination capabilities fit within long-term technology strategy. 

The challenge is that much of the conversation remains either overly technical or overly optimistic (sometimes both). 

Organizations evaluating actual business implications often encounter two competing narratives. One presents multi-agent AI systems as an imminent breakthrough poised to redefine enterprise operations. The other dismisses the category as another technology trend still searching for meaningful applications. 

The reality sits somewhere in the middle. 

Multi-agent AI systems are unlikely to transform supply chain coordination overnight, and many current deployments remain tightly scoped, vendor-led, or heavily dependent on human oversight.  

Multi-agent systems can connect different components of a supply chain, from manufacturing to consumer purchase. Virtual agents can negotiate with each other to predict stock needs, manage resources, and adjust operations in real time.  

That possibility deserves attention because coordination itself has always been the harder operational problem. 

What Multi-Agent AI Systems Actually Are 

Part of the challenge in evaluating this technology comes from terminology itself. Before discussing practical applications, organizations need a clear understanding of what differentiates multi-agent AI systems from existing AI capabilities. 

Traditional AI tools generally operate as standalone systems designed to perform individual tasks. Multi-agent environments take a different approach by coordinating multiple specialized AI systems toward shared objectives. 

Single-Agent Systems vs. Multi-Agent Systems 

A traditional AI assistant typically performs one defined role. 

Multi-agent AI systems distribute responsibility across multiple specialized agents. 

A retailer, supplier, or manufacturer could eventually deploy agents that: 

The value does not come from individual capabilities alone. It comes from coordinated decision-making across systems that traditionally operate independently. 

Why Supply Chains Create a Natural Use Case 

Supply chain operations create unusually strong conditions for multi-agent coordination because business decisions rarely happen in isolation. 

Demand forecasting influences procurement planning. Procurement planning affects manufacturing schedules. Manufacturing schedules shape transportation requirements. Transportation disruptions influence inventory availability and customer outcomes. 

Operational complexity compounds quickly across trading partner networks. 

This interconnected structure makes supply chains particularly interesting environments for coordinated AI systems. 

Why Retailer and Supplier Coordination Matters More Than Internal Productivity 

Most enterprise AI coverage still emphasizes the productivity gains inside individual companies. Organizations are deploying AI assistants to improve employee efficiency, automate repetitive work, and accelerate internal processes. Those investments matter a great deal.

However, they address only part of the operational challenge. 

Retail supply chains have never struggled primarily because companies lacked software. Large organizations already operate sophisticated forecasting platforms, procurement systems, planning applications, transportation management tools, and inventory technologies. 

The harder challenge has always been coordination.

Coordination Breakdowns Create Operational Friction 

Retailers, suppliers, and manufacturers operate within connected ecosystems where information moves imperfectly between organizations. 

Common coordination challenges include: 

Individually, these issues appear manageable. Collectively, they create operational complexity that compounds across trading partner networks. 

The long-term opportunity for multi-agent AI systems may ultimately emerge less from helping individual employees work faster and more from helping organizations coordinate decisions more effectively across company boundaries. 

Where Multi-Agent Coordination Is Emerging Today 

Current adoption patterns fall into three categories.

Some capabilities are already operational today. Others remain experimental. Understanding the distinction helps organizations separate meaningful progress from the emerging hype. 

Internal Orchestration Inside Individual Companies 

The most mature category involves AI coordination inside individual organizations. 

Retailers and manufacturers increasingly deploy AI systems to improve internal planning, forecasting, inventory management, and 

These environments provide favorable conditions because: 

Organizations can automate workflows with less complexity than cross-company coordination requires.

This category represents the current baseline. 

Supplier-Facing Negotiation and Procurement Coordination 

The next category moves beyond internal operations into interactions between trading partners.

Procurement is one of the clearest examples. 

Walmart and Pactum: A Real-World Coordination Example

 has become one of the strongest enterprise examples demonstrating AI-enabled negotiation capabilities operating at scale. 

Large procurement organizations frequently manage thousands of supplier relationships, many involving relatively smaller spending categories that still require substantial operational effort. 

Pactum introduced AI negotiation capabilities designed to automate specific supplier conversations within predefined parameters. 

The value of these systems goes far beyond streamlining procurement. 

The broader lesson is that autonomous and semi-autonomous coordination workflows can operate effectively when organizations establish: 

This is still far from a fully autonomous supply network. What makes it truly important is that it proves coordinated AI workflows 

 within specific operational guardrails. 

Therefore, enterprise transformation frequently begins with tightly scoped operational problems before expanding into broader coordination capabilities. 

Cross-Company Coordination Remains Early  

The third category represents the most ambitious vision and remains the least mature.

Cross-company coordination introduces challenges extending far beyond technology implementation. 

Different organizations operate under different: 

How CPG Suppliers Can Build AI Readiness in 2026 

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Across consumer packaged goods (CPG) supply chains, excitement around artificial intelligence continues building rapidly. Suppliers want faster planning decisions, stronger forecasting, cleaner inventory visibility, and fewer operational surprises. As intelligence capabilities continue advancing, many organizations are asking similar questions: Which AI platform should we invest in? Which capabilities matter most? How quickly do we need to move? 

Those questions make sense. However, they start in the wrong place. AI readiness rarely begins with software selection. The stronger question is whether day-to-day operations can effectively support AI once it arrives. 

Intelligence capabilities can help teams identify patterns faster, improve planning visibility, and surface opportunities that might otherwise go unnoticed. But AI won’t fix operational inconsistency. More often, it exposes it. Many organizations still struggle with fragmented inventory visibility and product information that requires manual validation. 

For years, experienced teams have found ways to make these environments work. They validate data, resolve exceptions, and keep products moving despite operational challenges. But when intelligence systems enter the picture, those challenges become harder to overlook. AI can only work with the information it receives, which means strong processes become even more valuable while underlying weaknesses become more visible. 

Organizations investing in operational maturity today are often building AI readiness at the same time, whether they realize it or not. 

Why Most CPG Suppliers Are Defining AI Readiness Incorrectly 

Much of today's AI discussion has inadvertently created the wrong picture for suppliers. Technology demos are dominating headlines. Vendor conversations emphasize new capabilities. Executive discussions center on implementation timelines and competitive positioning. 

The discussion should center around a much simpler reality: operational readiness determines future outcomes. 

AI systems depend on information quality and process consistency. When inventory information arrives late, or product attributes differ across systems, or transaction visibility depends on manual intervention, AI then inherits those limitations. 

Consider a common supplier operating environment. Inventory visibility may live inside an ERP platform while retailer point-of-sale information arrives separately. Product information requires manual validation before planning teams trust it. Purchase orders move electronically, but exception management still depends heavily on spreadsheets and email reconciliation. 

An intelligence layer operating inside fragmented environments will still generate recommendations, but it’s important those results can be trusted.  

Those operational questions influence outcomes far more than software selection. 

Technology Adoption Does Not Automatically Create Readiness 

Organizations often assume AI readiness begins when software enters the environment. Operational maturity typically matters first. 

Long-term AI success doesn't actually start with AI itself. More often, it starts with strong operations already in place. Organizations getting the most value from intelligence capabilities often have a few foundational strengths in common: 

These capabilities improve operational performance today while simultaneously creating stronger conditions for future intelligence initiatives. 

Research across enterprise AI adoption points toward a common pattern. Organizations struggle because operational systems supporting intelligence capabilities remain fragmented. Technology capabilities continue advancing rapidly. Operational infrastructure improvements often move more slowly.  

Suppliers delaying operational modernization may face growing pressure as retailer expectations evolve. Cleaner item data, stronger visibility, and faster exception resolution increasingly influence retailer relationships regardless of AI adoption plans. 

The Four Operational Foundations That Actually Determine Readiness 

Organizations successfully positioning themselves for future intelligence capabilities rarely build readiness overnight. Most strengthen operational fundamentals gradually. The strongest supplier environments often demonstrate four foundational characteristics that support both operational performance today and intelligence capabilities tomorrow. 

Product information quality influences significantly more than ecommerce experiences. Forecasting quality depends on reliable identifiers. Inventory planning depends on standardized attributes. Retail execution depends on product information remaining consistent across retailer environments. 

Operational friction typically begins with issues that appear small individually but create larger challenges later. 

When information is missing or inconsistent, people find ways to make it work. Operations teams step in to resolve issues, planners double-check data before making decisions, and experienced employees fill gaps with knowledge they've built over years on the job. 

A forecasting environment cannot confidently interpret fragmented identifiers. Recommendation systems depend heavily on standardized product information. Planning environments require information consistency across systems to maintain reliability. 

Manual workarounds create inefficiencies today, and they create limitations tomorrow. 

Reliable information movement creates operational consistency. Today, suppliers operate inside environments where transaction visibility influences planning quality, responsiveness, and execution performance. 

Key transaction workflows shaping operational maturity include: 

Organizations dependent on spreadsheets, manual reconciliation, and disconnected workflows may face visibility limitations that create operational friction.  

Manual intervention slows responsiveness, and slower responsiveness ultimately reduces planning quality. 

Operational automation creates consistency, consistency creates visibility, and visibility creates stronger conditions for intelligent systems to create value. 

This is one reason transaction automation matters beyond simple efficiency conversations. Organizations may view automation initiatives independently from AI initiatives, but those conversations actually overlap. 

Inventory visibility influences forecasting quality, replenishment timing, transportation planning, labor allocation, and promotional execution. Suppliers operating with fragmented inventory information often struggle to respond quickly enough to changing conditions. 

A regional promotion accelerating demand unexpectedly may create replenishment challenges. Inventory imbalances across channels may create operational inefficiencies. Delayed visibility typically reduces how effectively organizations respond. 

Operational planning depends on visibility across signals including: 

AI capabilities can help teams identify these patterns faster. However, they still depend on reliable operational information. 

Consistent Trading Partner Connectivity 

Many supplier environments work well despite a lot of hidden complexity. Teams rely on retailer-specific workarounds, years of experience, and manual processes to keep products moving and solve problems when they come up. 

That flexibility is a strength, but it can also hide inefficiencies. Disconnected systems create extra work, manual exception handling can lead to inconsistencies, and fragmented data makes it harder to see what is really happening across the business. While experienced teams can often work around these challenges, AI systems depend on accurate data and reliable communication between systems. 

The goal is not perfection. It is reducing friction before small issues grow into larger operational challenges. 

Why "We Work With AI" and "Our AI Works" Are Two Very Different Things 

Technology adoption and operational adoption are not interchangeable.

Organizations may assume underperforming AI initiatives stem from software limitations. Operational environments deserve equal scrutiny. 

Imagine a forecasting environment receiving fragmented retailer visibility. Inventory information arrives inconsistently. Product information requires validation. Point-of-sale visibility remains incomplete. 

Recommendations still generate, but confidence declines. Teams validate outputs manually, spreadsheets return, and operational habits reassert themselves. Teams then revert back toward established workflows.  

Technology becomes operationally valuable when teams trust outputs consistently enough to act confidently. 

Without trust, technology becomes little more than expensive reporting. And this explains why information quality conversations matter far more than governance discussions. Small operational gaps compound over time.  

Collectively, these operational gaps create noise. AI systems amplify noise. 

The organizations that are extracting meaningful value from intelligence capabilities solved operational consistency challenges years beforehand. 

AI Readiness Is Really Operational Readiness 

The EDI Build-Versus-Buy Decision Tree: A Defensible Framework for the CFO Conversation

Most companies treat the EDI build-vs-buy decision as an IT question. Someone on the operations team identifies a gap, IT gets looped in to scope the work, and the conversation eventually lands with finance as a line item asking for budget approval. The number that goes to the CFO is usually a comparison: internal development cost versus a vendor's annual contract fee. That comparison is not wrong exactly, but it's incomplete in ways that tend to surface months later, after the decision is already made and the costs are already ongoing. 

What gets missed is the ongoing cost structure of EDI, not the build cost. Internal builds require dedicated IT headcount with EDI expertise. Trading partner mapping needs maintenance every time a retailer updates their specs, which major partners like Walmart, Target, and Amazon do on a recurring basis. Exception handling requires someone to catch, diagnose, and resolve them, and when that doesn't happen reliably, chargeback and penalty exposure grows. 

The decision tree in this article is designed to surface that full cost picture before the CFO conversation happens, not during it. It walks through the variables that actually determine whether build or buy is defensible at your current scale: trading partner count, IT capacity, compliance exposure, chargeback risk, and customization requirements. 

1. How many active trading partners are you managing today, or will be within 18 months? 

2. Do you have IT personel with EDI experience who have available capacity? 

3. Is your IT team staffed for ongoing EDI maintenance, not just the initial build? 

4. Do any of your current trading partners have active compliance programs that update on a recurring basis (e.g., Walmart, Target, Amazon, Home Depot, major grocery, etc.)? 

5. What is your realistic annual chargeback and penalty exposure from EDI failures at your current transaction volume? 

6. Is your transaction volume low enough that an EDI failure would be a minor inconvenience rather than a significant financial event? 

7. Can your IT team absorb quarterly compliance spec updates without pulling from other projects? 

8. Do you expect significant increases in scale in the next 18 months, in partner count, volume, or retail mix? 

Ready To Make a Defensible EDI Decision? 

 offers fully managed EDI that handles trading partner mapping, compliance updates, and exception resolution, so the costs that sink in-house builds don't catch you at month 18. Talk to a team member about what the right path looks like for your organization. 

Common KeHE Deductions (and How To Minimize Them) 

No one likes a bad surprise, and that’s exactly what deductions (aka chargebacks) can be when they start chipping away at your 

 invoice totals. Moreover, deductions can be particularly confusing when working with a distributor, as revenue loss can come from both the retailer and the distributor.   

Maximizing your margins as a KeHE supplier involves more than just getting your products in as many retailers as you can. In this article, you will learn about: 

KeHE organizes its most common deductions into three main categories: KeHE fees, unsaleables, and invoice adjustments.  

This category includes the following common types:  

is a digital platform within KeHE’s CONNECT Supplier® portal that provides reporting metrics, business analytics, and data visualization tools for suppliers.  

KeHE applies a 2% allowance to all purchases for KeHE CONNECT BI Program benefits. The allowance is calculated on the net of each purchase order (PO) and is given as a separate line on each supplier invoice.  

All terms and conditions concerning KeHE’s payment terms, repayment procedures, audits, and pricing-related issues are outlined in Section 4.1 in KeHE’s 

KeHE explains that the payment due date for all invoices is calculated from the latter of either of the following: 

KeHE considers payment to be timely and within payment terms if it mails a check or sends an electronic funds transfer (EFT) on or before KeHE’s first payment cycle following a due date.  

 If a supplier owes KeHE an amount of money that’s greater than the amount KeHE owes the supplier on the invoice (a situation KeHE refers to as a 

), the supplier won't receive any payment when that invoice payment is due. That invoice will be considered paid, and the supplier won’t receive payment for any other invoices during that period. 

KeHE bases its discount calculations for early payment on the net invoice amount and will apply it to invoices offset by amounts due to KeHE, including suppliers in debit balance. The 

 refer to the administrative fees KeHE imposes for processing manufacturer chargebacks (MCBs) and extra performance (EP) promotions.  

KeHE encourages opting into its many advertising and event opportunities as a way of building brand awareness and driving sales growth. Advertising opportunities include: 

The fine print and fees associated with these options are published in the 

every year. KeHE notes that “payment for participation in events and programs may be up front and pre-paid, or deducted from [the] supplier’s account, at KeHE’s option.” 

Noncompliance fees get subtracted from a supplier’s payments when KeHE’s expectations aren’t met.  

And here are the shipment noncompliance fees provided in the November 2025 

, the food distributor defines unsaleable products as “any product removed from the primary channel of distribution, regardless of the reason for removal.”  

KeHE divides unsaleables into three main categories: underperforming and discontinued products, spoils, and nonconforming products. However, KeHE notes that a product doesn’t have to fit into one of these three categories to be considered unsaleable.  

Underperforming and Discontinued Products

The decision to discontinue an item can be made by KeHE, the supplier, or the retailer.  

KeHE recognizes two different types of spoils in its supply chain: warehouse spoils and retailer spoils (often just called “spoils”). 

This category includes products that are: 

Suppliers are solely responsible for any expenses related to replacing nonconforming products and must reimburse KeHE for all associated costs.  

When there is a product price or quantity discrepancy between a purchase order and the corresponding invoice, KeHE will make invoice adjustments to correct the differences.  

For example, if the purchase order quantity for a product is 90 but KeHE only receives 85, KeHE will deduct the purchase order price for five of those products. Or if the purchase order lists a product’s price as $10 but the invoice lists them at $12, KeHE will deduct the discrepancy from the next payment. 

Working with a distributor involves both distributor deductions 

 retailer deductions. KeHE processes these deductions (see “Promotional Processing Fees” above), but they originate from the retailer. 

Retailers commonly charge suppliers for: 

There are steps you can take to minimize the occurrence and impact of deductions on your bottom line.  

Minimize the Impact of KeHE Deductions with SPS Commerce 

If you’re struggling with deductions at KeHE, SPS can help.  

How Working Capital Is Affected by OTIF, Fill Rate, and Deductions

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For retail brands, working capital is the lifeblood of day-to-day operations and long-term growth. Money is often tied up in inventory, production, and promotions. Couple this with a long cash conversion cycle (CCC), and you end up with a lot of cash trapped in systems instead of funding growth. 

If your working capital is tight, any hit to your cash (chargebacks, deductions, delayed payments) can snowball into stockouts, missed launches, and cut marketing plans. On the other side, strong working capital gives you room to flex and invest in things like: 

In this article, we’ll break down how OTIF performance, fill rate, and deductions directly impact working capital and your cash conversion cycle, along with practical ways to improve cash flow and reduce operational friction. 

The Cash Conversion Cycle for Retail Brands 

The cash conversion cycle measures how long it takes to turn cash you spend on goods into cash you collect from customers: 

Cash Conversion Cycle = DSO + DIO − DPO

How long it takes to get paid after you invoice the retailer. 

 How long inventory sits before it sells. 

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