CPG/Food & Beverage

Supply Chain Planning for the CPG/Food and Beverage industry involves the consideration of numerous challenges, including:

• Commodity price volatility
• Changing customer preferences
• Improving supplier quality and response
• Global sourcing to better manage cost
• Managing SKU portfolios and the product lifecycle
• Vendor managed inventory
• Operations Planning

Many Supply Chain Guru® features have been designed to specifically support the challenges facing the CPG/Food and Beverage industry. For instance, Enterprise Simulation is used for commodity price analysis and to test the robustness of the supply chain given highly variable raw material costs. Inventory Optimization helps analysts understand where inventory buffers should be placed to meet service level goals while minimizing inventory holding costs.

Supply Demand Balancing is used to identify the lowest cost solution for satisfying seasonal demand given production and warehousing capacity constraints, and can be used for ongoing operations planning to understand supply chain constraints on future projected demand. GHG Emissions Analysis helps identify cost tradeoffs associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions.