Intense digital commerce, changing buying patterns, and fickle brand loyalty are adding to pressures for consumer goods companies. Target new strategies to keep up with today’s expectations for responsiveness amid a rapidly growing omnichannel landscape.
- Consumer Goods
Industry Challenges
Squeeze every last drop of speed, and efficiency from your supply chain
Increasing pressure on margins
Rising costs of living and inflation are causing consumers to be more price sensitive, buy smaller quantities, and consider private labels.
Ongoing supply shortages and logistic disruptions
Global tensions, material shortages, and labor constraints are causing bottlenecks throughout the supply chain - from raw material purchases to factory production and warehouse distribution.
Unresponsive supply chains
Today's consumer expects a supply chain experience that delivers rapid, accurate fulfillment and personalized options that legacy tech struggles to support.
What Blue Yonder delivers for CPG customers
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Case Studies
Success stories in Consumer Goods
BIC customers purchase 32 million BIC shavers, lighters and promotional products every day. Making sure BIC has the right products in the right places to support this enormous demand takes precise planning. To make this happen, BIC recently deployed factory planning and sequencing application from Blue Yonder in their Charlotte packaging facility, which replaced a manual rolling schedule with an automated process. In this video, Cindy Banks, BIC Global Planning System Manager, explains how the production visibility this provided allowed BIC to collaborate across departments, resulting in a reduction of 40% in changeover time by eliminating one-to-two changeovers per week.
After experiencing significant growth in its packaged goods sector, multi-billion-dollar conglomerate ITC Limited realized their existing spreadsheet-based planning tools were no longer meeting its needs. Learn how Blue Yonder’s network design capabilities helped ITC save nearly one percent of cost of goods sold, resulting in a full return on investment in less than two months.
From understanding demand and how to forecast, to partnering with suppliers to better understand needed capacity, to seeing how their retail businesses decide to allocate a product, having a full spectrum of information allows PVH to enable end-to-end global planning across multiple brands.
Business Impact
A new, outside-in supply chain—centered around the customer
Better on-shelf availability
Fend off competitive threats with more insight from store-level execution data. Improve on-shelf availability (OSA) by better synchronizing CPG and retail planograms and replenishment.
Hand in glove planning and execution
Bring together manufacturing, transportation, and warehouse execution in an end-to-end platform that can consistently meet shelf-life requirements for even highly perishable goods, improving service to intermediates and ensuring availability to consumers.
Streamlined order to cash workflows
Improve your order management process by optimizing procurement workflows, including consideration of constraints such as full truckload (FTL) shipments and labor availability. Integrate logistics with enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for a full picture.
Capabilities
Blue Yonder for consumer packaged goods
Network Design & Utilization
Adapt and optimize your network to meet any challenge
Model and optimize the full breadth and depth of your supply chain network and scenarios. With powerful, yet flexible, what-if modeling capabilities that include multiple currencies, Blue Yonder can help you evaluate, design, optimize, and ultimately transform your supply chain network. Whether you are looking to expand, mitigate disruption, or optimize your current network resources, our solutions can help you reach your supply chain goals.
Integrated Business Planning
Integrated business, demand & supply planning
Combine industry-leading forecasting technology with market-leading supply and factory planning capabilities to minimize stock-outs and maximize inventory turns. Our solution uses a common data model, enables integrated manufacturing planning in the cloud, and can ingest hundreds of supply and demand-driven variables to optimize your supply chain.
Inventory Optimization
Gain deeper insights to optimize inventory and deployment
Analyze your extensive set of data including consumption patterns, volume, revenue, margin, cost-to serve, product maturity, channels, criticality, velocity, and seasonality. With deeper insight, you can make better, more informed deployment decisions, such as load building and inventory rebalancing.
Transportation Planning
Boost visibility and coordination across your supply chain
Sitting at the heart of the supply chain ecosystem, transportation planning facilitates the sharing of information, increases internal and external real-time visibility, and generates actionable data analytics. By automating and optimizing responses, your carriers, vendors, packers, and suppliers can work as a precisely orchestrated collaboration with co-packers.
Order Management & Commerce
Real-time inventory, effortless fulfillment
Unify inventory availability and omni-channel fulfillment intelligence capabilities, so your reatailers can present real-time inventory views across their network and determine how best to fulfill orders based on cost, location, and transit times. Consumers will enjoy order fulfillment options such as ship to and from store, buy online pick up in-store (BOPUS), and last mile delivery – moving them from click to commit.
Control Tower
Real-time visibility and orchestration
Achieve end-to-end visibility across trading partners, enabling collaboration, such as the ability to execute ML-powered resolution across the enterprise. Working from one version of the truth, you can visualize the entire upstream and downstream flow of goods.
Industry insights
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