The truce in the Teamsters union visits to supermarkets and suppliers appear to have been prolonged. Union members under the direction of Pablo Moyano they weren’t there yesterday in distribution centers or in the factories of major manufacturers of consumer products. But worries about supply issues persist.
The Government’s alert is because the products of “Fair prices” they are not reached. According to the chains, half of the items are available with these fixed amounts. Instead, the suppliers We speak of an availability between 70% and 75%.
While the piqueteros say they will go to the coast to check, and the Buenos Aires government has made available to telephone line to detect the presence of truck drivers in supermarkets, companies are starting to believe that the move is more of “pressure” than of actual compliance.
“The truckers they cannot supervise anything. The authorized are the inspectors of the Ministry of Commerce. If the union accompanies him, it’s another matter, more political. But the union itself can’t take any data, it’s illegal,” argue two private sector executives. In the visits of the Truckers to the fulfillment centers of the supermarkets, there were official inspectors.
Something is failing in the supply chain from suppliers to supermarkets, according to gondola executives and the executive branch.
Supermarkets place orders for the products they estimate to sell to their suppliers. These satisfy them partially or totally. “If I ask a company for 100 packs of a product and they give me 50, the truckers only find out about the last part, that is, the 50 that I received. He doesn’t know that I asked him for 100, because these data are part of the supermarket-supplier relationship”, graphically represent a chain. They prefer these links – which include payment terms, volumes, long-term relationships, joint promotions – to remain private, without intervention by unions or the state.
“Also, that company can deliver 50 packages in one shipment today, and there will be another 20 packages in another batch shortly thereafter. I don’t see how truckers can keep doing that monitoring. They will know how many parcels/parcels have arrived, but not how many have been ordered,” they point out in another company with many gondolas.
According to the supermarkets, the suppliers divert the goods (which they ask and do not give) to the self-service shops. there they can sell more expensive and without checks. “There are items that run out quickly in the branches, but you go through the ‘Chinese‘ which is the opposite and you can get it, albeit at a more expensive price. It’s because the amount in that channel is 30% to 50% higher,” the chains point out. clarion He was able to verify this with a dozen examples in different neighborhoods of Buenos Aires.
As for shortages, supermarkets say they cover half of their stock at “fair” prices. This ranges from dairy products to cleaning items, including drinks, pasta, oil or any type of groceries.
“A supplier has a product with three presentations, one small container, another medium and a third large. It’s very rare that all three are in the same branch. Somewhere you will find the small, somewhere else the medium and yet another the large. It is almost impossible for all three varieties to be under one roof,” they note.
This explanation applies to both sizes and varieties (products with different tastes, fragrances, details), depending on the suppliers and supermarkets.
The Suppliers say they are filling as much inventory as possible. The lack of imported inputs complicates them. There are some companies that sell to supermarkets that have agreed to “fair prices” in exchange for free import dollars. It wouldn’t have happened, some whisper
Source: Clarin
