Procter & Gamble Company
Hi,
As a research engineer at P&G, my role is to seek innovation and to partner with people who can bring innovation to the company in the area of transport and logistics. My interest is in the area of Physical Distribution and Physical Internet. I am passionate about innovation in road transport (i.e commercial vehicles, automation, platooning, ITS etc.) and Rail Freight (Colloboration, shared assets etc.).
I will be also sharing with you the progress we have made with Project Transformers (www.transformers-project.eu), and look for synergies in similar lines.
ABOUT P&G:
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), incorporated on May 5 1905, provides consumer packaged goods. The Company operates in five segments under GBUs: Beauty, Grooming, Health Care, Fabric Care and Home Care, and Baby Feminine and Family Care. The Company's products are sold in over 180 countries and territories. Its organizational structure consists of Global Business Units (GBUs), Global Operations Global Business Services (GBS) and Corporate Functions (CF). The GBUs are responsible for developing overall brand strategy, new product upgrades, and innovations and marketing plans. P&G's customers include mass merchandisers, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores, department stores, salons distributors, e-commerce and stores.
Beauty
In the Company's beauty care segment, it offers a range of products ranging from deodorants to cosmetics to skin care. The beauty care segment also includes hair care and color products.
Grooming
The Company's Grooming segment includes blades, razors and electronic hair removal devices, such as electric razors and epilators. The Company holds over 20% of the male shavers market and over 40% of the female epilators market.
Health Care
The Health Care segment of the Company includes oral care and personal health care products. In oral care, the Company holds approximately 20% global market share. In personal health care, it offers respiratory treatments and nonprescription heartburn medications (Prilosec OTC brand). Nearly all of P&G's sales outside the United States in personal health are generated through the PGT Healthcare partnership with Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Fabric Care and Home Care
The Company's Fabric Care and Home Care segment consists of a range of fabric care products, including laundry detergents additives and fabric enhancers; home care products, including dishwashing liquids and detergents surface cleaners and air fresheners and batteries. In fabric care, the Company holds over 25% global market share. In home care market, its share is approximately 20% and in batteries it owns approximately 25% global battery market share.
Baby Feminine and Family Care
In the Company's baby care segment, it offers diapers pants and baby wipes, which constitutes over 30% global market share. P&G's family care business consists of the Bounty paper towel and Charmin toilet paper brands. Its United States market shares are approximately 45% for Bounty and over 25% for Charmin.
Global Operations consists of the Company's Sales and Market Operations (SMO), which is responsible for developing and executing go to market plans at the local level. The SMO includes dedicated retail customer trade channel and country-specific teams. GBS provides technology processes and data tools to enable the GBUs and the SMO to better understand the business and better serve consumers and customers. Corporate Functions provides Company level strategy and portfolio analysis corporate accounting treasury tax external relations governance human resources and legal, as well as other centralized functional support.
Public enterprise Road and transport research institute
Public enterprise Road and transport research institute (hereinafter – the Enterprise) is a public non-profit seeking legal entity of limited civil liability the objective of which is to satisfy the public interests by implementing functions necessary for the planning and design of road building, construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance works and their quality assessment.
The Enterprise’s founder and sole shareholder (owner) is a state.
Our mission is to carry out activities which would contribute to the improvement of the condition of road infrastructure.
Our vision is: funds allocated to the development of road infrastructure shall be used in accordance with the cost – benefit analysis method. Decisions on the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance works of the roads of national significance shall be made in accordance with the objective data of road condition and traffic investigations.
Sofia Urban Mobility Centre
Sofia Urban Mobility Centre EAD is a municipal company responsible for:
- Organisation, management, supervision and financing of the public transport in Sofia as an integrated process.
- Monitoring of the proper implementation of the Public Service Contracts between Sofia municipality and the transport operators.
- Operation of information management system for monitoring and supervision of the traffic, based on GPS identification.
- Implementation and operation of Intelligent Transport Systems for public transport.
- Issuing of transportation documents and collection of the transport revenues.
- Operation of unified Automated Fare Collection System (ticketing system).
- Finance, construction, operation and maintenance of parkings, garages and open-space parking spaces in Sofia - owned by Sofia Municipality.
- Advertising and information services in the public transport.
- Development of plans and analyses for urban mobility management.
Tsvetan Tsolov
Head of International Projects DepartmentTelexis
Telexis provides scalable solutions based on the latest cutting edge e-ticketing technologies in the area of transit. Telexis’s technology allows transit agencies and operators to improve their passengers’ travel experience along with expanding the sales, services and operation capacity at relatively low incremental costs.Telexis enables the current e-ticketing schemes as well as the cloud-ticketing based on its future-proof, multi-scheme, multi-purpose ‘Open Architecture’ solutions. The operators can use the Telexis’s solutions to improve their existing operations while having the freedom to smoothly and migrate to smart ticketing!