Keeping up with constantly evolving buyer tastes is key to success in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) arena. A century of successful innovation has kept one global food and beverage distributor at the top of its industry. One of its newest North American product lineups, sold in almost 80,000 U.S. retail outlets, capitalizes on the protein-centric and sustainability trends dominating today’s food and beverage industry.
The product line goal? Enhancing nutrition while improving the planet. BlueGranite is helping the distributor further those visions – putting a system in place that will soon ensure the right products are produced when and where customers want them – with a reporting buildout informing production and distribution.
The company’s first step in gaining vision across the full supply chain was to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business process management system. Then it partnered with BlueGranite to build out agile business intelligence – a data warehouse and reporting on business processes, finances, inventory, and sales for each bottler.
The distributor’s products come from different farms across North America; more than 10 bottlers process and package the product line. BlueGranite built robust reporting on top of the new ERP system to surface bottler-side business processes, inventory, financial, and sales statistics; the first step toward managing the whole supply chain end to end. By surfacing actionable insights, the distributor can now discover what’s being sold across North America and predict when it will need inventory.
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