Overcome New Challenges in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
Optimize demand management, comply with food safety regulations, and increase the agility of your supply chain management – with tailored solutions from a global network of SAP specialists.
Optimize demand management, comply with food safety regulations, and increase the agility of your supply chain management – with tailored solutions from a global network of SAP specialists.
To overcome these challenges, stay competitive and lead the way in the future, consumer goods businesses must optimize their processes – by finally exploiting the often untapped potentials of digital transformation: From predictive maintenance over machine learning scenario and digitized quality control to the use of agile product lifecycle management software and cloud-based solutions for ensuring data accuracy in forecasting.
A sophisticated ERP software, like SAP S/4HANA, and specialized SAP consumer industries solutions that fit your specific needs will help you with that. After your digital transformation, you will be able to meet fluctuating consumer demands and capitalize on new growth opportunities in today’s integrated markets.
Although most businesses have some type of digital transformation initiative in place, many are still unprepared to deal with rapid change. In the case of the consumer products – food industry, the current situation is forcing manufacturers to deal with several challenges that can also become opportunities for future growth.
At NTT DATA Business Solutions, we truly understand the subtle differences among the consumer products industry’s specialties. As such, we have developed a multitude of industry-specific products to provide our customers with tailored SAP solutions – whether on-premise, cloud, or hybrid.
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) have always been essential to our daily lives, but during the pandemic they took on heightened importance. Panic buying led to empty shelves, while quickly changing guidelines from government officials sowed confusion for production and delivery processes. It was truly an eye-opening time for many consumer products companies, as they quickly learned what they were doing well and areas where they were not so well equipped to keep up with the turmoil.
As a result, many CPG companies shifted their focus to core business areas such as manufacturing and distribution. With consumer goods flying off the shelves, these companies needed to ramp up production facilities to run 24/7, with the ability to adjust production lines and schedules in a more agile fashion. However, some found they lacked the capabilities to support expanded production or the agility to adjust to increased market demand.
Based on this experience, consumer products companies are changing their outlook in terms of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. One thing is certain: it is unlikely that there will be a return to what was once considered normal. The challenge will be understanding and adapting to the requirements and opportunities for the next growth stage.
Yvonne Heussner, Key-Userin, Klingele Paper & Packaging Group
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.
As a trusted long-standing partner of SAP, NTT DATA Business Solutions is part of the development process for industry-specific solutions from the outset. Combined with over 30 years of experience in SAP implementations across multiple industry segments, this gives us unparalleled knowledge of the consumer products industry. It also puts us at the forefront of innovation in the sector, meaning that as we grow, you grow.
What’s more, thanks to our global presence, you can benefit from our best-in-class B2B and B2C solutions and round-the-clock consulting, wherever you are.
Right now, a growing number of companies are scrutinizing their existing process structures and move from largely independent traditional sales and procurement processes toward an integrated sales and operations planning process. The ready-to-run solution it.sales and operations planning for consumerR2R based on the SAP cloud solution Integrated Business Planning (IBP) reflects this development. Learn more about this effective solution to boost transparency and agility.
Proactive application support, end-to-end system monitoring and a flexible support model by NTT DATA Business Solutions ensure that Kamps benefits from outstanding performance and security within daily business.
In order to manage the complexity of business processes as well as to guarantee system performance, Leifheit relies on the NTT DATA Business Solutions Managed Cloud and Application Management Services.
FrieslandCampina Germany is a subsidiary of Royal FrieslandCampina located in Amersfoort, Netherlands. The company is renowned for milk products of consistent high quality and famous brands such as Landliebe, Tuffi, Frico, Holland Master and Chocomel.
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