FIVE P Industry Examples

Food and Process:

1. Dairy products and processing
2. Baked products and processes
3. Confectionery mixing, cooking, extrusion, moulding, forming, cooling
4. Silo storage, conveying, handling of flour, sugar, plastic resins
5. Bulk liquid tank farm storage and reticulation e.g chocolate, glucose, water
6. Pumping and jacketed pipe work systems
7. Clean in place (CIP) systems and validation
8. Metal detection systems for process and packaging lines
9. Process automation
10. New product development and industrialisation

Packaging materials and materials handling:

1. Live storage and re-feeding systems
2. High-speed wrapping, cartonising
3. Multi-head weighing, bagging
4. Extrusion, printing, slitting, converting of plastic films and rigid plastics
5. Date coding, identification systems
6. Packaging rationalisation studies
7. Dangerous goods, flammable gas and liquids storage
8. Explosion venting and earthing requirements for bulk materials handing and storage systems
9. Case erection, shippering, conveying, palletising
10. Pick-and-place robotics
11. Automatic guided vehicles
12. Warehouse automation systems – strapping, stretch wrapping, pallet conveying
13. Production management systems, inventory management.

Supply Chain and Logistics:

1. Control and protection of service and inventory levels during projects
2. Sales and operations planning (S&OP)
3. Project alignment to business objectives (5-10 year plans) 
4. Demand management
5. Production planning effectiveness and improvement tools
6. Inventory accuracy
7. Improvements in MRP/ERP system use
8. Key performance indicators (KPIs) 
9. Measurement of productivity using MRP/ERP standard metrics
10. Inventory strategy and implementation of effective controls
11. Inventory holding cost calculations and other supply chain costs for project approvals
12. Warehouse and DC  ‘safety map’ compliance and audits
13. Warehouse layouts, transport efficiency reviews
14. Vendor performance management and measurement tools
15. Purchasing and supply chain strategies, implementation plans and procedures