Consumer Packed Goods Software

Consumer Goods

Your outside-in supply chain is ready for prime time

Adapt instantly to your customers' needs with AI-driven insights that enhance product selection, availability, and fulfillment, maximizing operational total shareholder return and boosting your bottom line.

Consumer Goods

Industry Challenges
Case Studies
Business Impact
Capabilities
Industry Insights

Industry Challenges

Squeeze every last drop of speed, and efficiency from your supply chain

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.

What Blue Yonder delivers for CPG customers

improvement in service levels

increase in forecast accuracy

reduction in inventory

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.
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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.
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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Next-generation Control Towers

Network-wide visibility and orchestration for a continuously updated, shared version of end-to-end operations. Visualize the flow of orders, inventory and capacities – across the enterprise and partners - production, logistics, demand, supply, and space. Leverage intelligence to derive a coordinated response.

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Break enterprise boundaries to increase agility

Coordinate efforts across your complex fabric of trading partners for improved return on capital, lower cost to serve, and faster time to market. As variability and volatility increase, digital supply chain networks are critical to adjust to change faster and smarter.

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