Consumer Goods

  • Consumer Goods
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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

    • Asian Paints Saved Over $720,000 by Reducing Unnecessary Production with Improved Planning From Blue Yonder
      Asian Paints Saved Over $720,000 by Reducing Unnecessary Production with Improved Planning From Blue Yonder

      Asian Paints’ decorative division produces offers both standard paint products as well as more made-to-order formulations, requiring a sophisticated and robust supply chain. Discover how Blue Yonder helped Asian Paints improve production and safety stock planning, reduced inventory, and more.

    • BIC Adopts a Single Production Plan, Reduces Changeover Times by 40% and Identifies Extra Weekly Capacity with Blue Yonder
      BIC Adopts a Single Production Plan, Reduces Changeover Times by 40% and Identifies Extra Weekly Capacity with Blue Yonder


      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.

    • ITC  Reduces Cost of Goods Sold by 1% and  2 Month ROI on Network Design Investment for its Biscuit Business
      ITC  Reduces Cost of Goods Sold by 1% and  2 Month ROI on Network Design Investment for its Biscuit Business

      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.

    • $8bn New York Apparel Wholesaler Gets End to End Visibility, Better Demand Forecasting, Supplier Relationships, Inventory Control and Compliance to Plans with Forecasting and Replenishment.
      $8bn New York Apparel Wholesaler Gets End to End Visibility, Better Demand Forecasting, Supplier Relationships, Inventory Control and Compliance to Plans with Forecasting and Replenishment.

      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

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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Industry insights

    Blue Yonder Orchestrator
    Blue Yonder Orchestrator
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    Effectively Manage Order Lifecycle and Optimize Process with Blue Yonder Order Services
    Effectively Manage Order Lifecycle and Optimize Process with Blue Yonder Order Services
    Solution Overview
    Delivering effective, customer-centric experiences starts by identifying – and implementing – the right tools. Learn how Blue Yonder’s Order
    Increase Conversion Rates and Drive Intelligent Fulfillment with Order Management Microservices
    Increase Conversion Rates and Drive Intelligent Fulfillment with Order Management Microservices
    Solution Overview
    With the rapid growth in online retail, it’s more essential than ever to offer a stellar online shopping experience to your customers. Learn

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