Overcome New Challenges in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

This Expert Conversations video by Jeff Van Pelt, Industry Solution Principal for Consumer Products, discusses strategies for digital transformation within consumer product companies. There are three main objectives for businesses looking to digitize: automation, profitability/profitable growth, and scalability. Financial benefits of adopting these strategies include improved revenue growth, increased operating margin, reduced cost of goods sold, and decreased production and inventory days.

With supply chain’s newfound designation as an enabler of strategy, leaders are now expected to contribute significantly to overall enterprise goals, including sustainability, revenue generation and deepening relationships with consumers — while also managing geopolitical tensions, climate disruptions, and lingering materials shortages.

Meeting this mandate is driving consumer goods companies to make significant investments to move their supply chains further away from cost centers and toward value creators. In this live webinar, you’ll learn from Ron Gilson, Organic Valley CIO, and Jeff Van Pelt, NTT DATA Business Solutions industry principal, consumer products, about how one of the largest organic consumer brands in the U.S. is undergoing a technology and business transformation to meet these new needs.

For today’s consumer products companies, sustained success and new growth depend on the industry’s ability to satisfy varied, complex, and changing demands. Customer requirements are only one element in a range of challenges that determine who succeeds in the market.

SAP technology brings together critical solutions and services needed for true business transformation, providing a path to the Intelligent Enterprise for every customer, independent of starting point or complexity.

NTT DATA Business Solutions’ RUN as a Service program complements your SAP solutions and is designed to help your business accelerate and unlock business value based on your specific business vision, challenges and opportunities.

Where food meets IT.

Walioullah Ali, Head of COE Consumer Products at NTT DATA Business Solutions, explains together with Christian Fretter, Head of R&D at Dr. August Oetker Nahrungsmittel KG, the smartFoodTechnology cluster and the benefits of working together with science and industry on one specific topic. In this case the digital transformation and it`s possibilities for the consumer packaged goods industry.

As part of the project “Quality Assurance in Food Production: Cyber-physical Systems and Big Data”, for example, a continuous mashing plant was developed. The demonstrator plant enables the exploration of digital product twins as well as process prediction and pursues the goal of a self-regulating system.