Overcome New Challenges in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
Optimize demand management, comply with food safety regulations, and increase supply chain agility – with tailored solutions from a global network of SAP specialists.
Prepare Your Product Lifecycle Management for a New Era in Retail
Today’s consumer products businesses face a host of new challenges. Changing consumer demands are influencing product design and price optimization like never before. Meanwhile, the volatile economy necessitates unprecedented supply chain agility. And increasingly stringent food safety regulations mean compliance is not only more important, but also more difficult to achieve than ever.
To overcome these challenges, retail companies need to bring all of their PLM processes together in one place – with sophisticated ERP software that meets their specific needs.
Current Hot Topics for Consumer Products Providers
Demand Management
In today’s customer-driven market, effective demand management is absolutely essential. CPG companies require quick and easy access to relevant information to support profitability analysis and price optimization.
And to guarantee accurate data, they need best-of-breed forecasting software. Technology aside, enterprises must not lose sight of their most important asset – their customers.
Supply Chain Agility
Good planning is critical to success, but quick, efficient re-planning is as just as important. With an increasing number of goods being transported daily, planning must be agile enough to respond to unpredictable events – such as delivery delays caused by traffic jams.
To accelerate decision making, access to accurate real-time information via the IoT is vital.
Food Safety
In an era defined by globalization and digitization, businesses require a systemized food safety program. This should ensure the highest possible quality across all processes and timely compliance with global regulations.
To close the gap between incidents and corrective actions, companies in the food sector need a powerful in-memory platform, while innovative IoT capabilities can keep them ahead of competition.
Are You Facing Similar Challenges?
- Is it increasingly difficult for you to cope with changing consumer demands and economic volatility?
- Are you struggling with shrinking operating margins due to growing global competition and fluctuating raw material prices?
- Are you suffering from compliance issues due to a dynamic global regulatory environment and the necessity to mitigate operational risk and manage nonconformance?
- Are you familiar with all the compliance issues and food safety risks caused by a growing global economy?
- Are data granularity and transparency increasingly significant to your company?
If you are currently facing one or more of these challenges, we can help you rethink your processes.
Learn about 3 Ways Consumer Products Companies are Transforming the Business
Your business needs a smarter, more flexible way to respond to changes in technology, in the consumer products industry and in your business. We can help you create a dynamic technology roadmap designed to help you pivot and adapt quickly.
Industry-Specific Processes for Consumer Products
- Inventory and Supply Chain Management
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- Manage inventory in multiple, concurrent units of measure where needed, and allow seamless processing in all units (e.g. pricing at the in-process scale)
- Manage all inventory formats, including customer-owned, customer-pegged (promised), made-to-order (private label), quarantined, pre-approved by quality, etc.
- Manage all traceability issues, lot track & trace, quality recall management, etc.
- Sales and Operations Planning
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- Evaluate all options for improving the business
- Explore product mix, customer mix, supply planning with ingredients and dry goods sourcing, supply chain costs, and optimization of cost options to maximize margins
- Collaborate across all roles and functions to build the best plan
- Product Lifecycle Management
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- Streamline PLM from product inception to disposal – and align the business’s product portfolio to its objectives
- Transition from R&D to production in a well-planned, thoroughly coordinated manner
- Pricing, Promotions, and Commissions
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- Manage complex customer pricing including deep top-to-bottom logic to accommodate complex contractual pricing component details
- Assign prices based on individual product characteristics
- Handle promotional pricing issues connected to the physical logistics planning cycles (inventory, transportation, etc.)
- Implement automated price optimization based on demand
- Compensate broker/distributor channels accurately, with links to the end customer where needed
- Multichannel Sales
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One system to handle:
- direct
- indirect via brokers/distributors
- B2B and B2C e-commerce and online stores
- Analytics & Yield Management
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- Align analytics with strategic needs throughout your business process
- Manage yield throughout the buying, production, storage, and logistics execution processes – focus this effort on critical control points rather than inefficient all-encompassing scope
- Increase visibility to key performance areas for business leadership, real-time, in-process (no closes needed)
- Streamline end-of-month and end-of-year processes for fast, accurate completion
- Leverage embedded analytics for real-time feedback on critical issues, such as yield
- Profitability Analysis
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- Start with the right level of granularity to allow management of margin at the right level of detail for your business – most consumer products businesses need visibility at the customer and product level of detail
- Slice and dice your profitability analysis to see the effects of customer/revenue and product/cost mix, logistics execution, and other factors influencing profitability – use this information to improve the sales and operations planning process
Our Consumer Packaged Goods Specialties
It's Often the Little Things That Make the Difference
We 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 Products Industry Principal, NTT DATA Business Solutions
NTT DATA Business Solutions: Experience Meets Innovation in Consumer Products
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’ 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.
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