10 Challenges for Food and Beverage Supply Chains to rise to
- Risk of not maintaining regulatory compliance
- Need to maintain batch traceability and recall capabilities
- Need to reduce time-to-market
- Increasing complexity of managing perishable products customer service expectations
- Changing consumer trends and expectations, such as the rise of health-consciousness causing shift in demand towards healthier foods, e.g., preservative-free, gluten-free, dairy-free.
- Sustainability conscious public leading to bans on plastic and reduction of packaging
- Increasing raw, WIP, and FG Inventory
- Increasing costs due to market disruptions especially rising total logistic costs
- Explosion of data volumes and sources to manage
- Need for improved decision-making support tools – AI & Analytics
Does this profile feel familiar?
- You have a distribution intensive supply chain
- Your SKU count is high and available in different package sizes
- Your brand releases a lot of new products and promotional items
- Your products are seasonal with complex or short shelf-life requirements
- You have high demand & supply variability and a need to evaluate multiple scenarios
- Channel shift to grocery and B2C away from food service due to Covid-19 Pandemic
- A growing concern towards animals and shortages in meats due to the Covid-19 Pandemic is accelerating the demand for meat-free products
Customer Success Stories
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We operate a unique supply chain, and we needed a best-in-class solution to provide the flexibility and visibility to adjust to changing market demands. The results since implementing Logility have been fantastic.
David Hovey – Director of Supply Chain
- Improved forecast accuracy by more than 20%
- Decreased finished goods by more than 20%
- Increased case fill by 2%
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- Enabled a granular lever of forecasting within a single global instance
- Increased trust in statistically generated demand plans
- Improved overall forecast accuracy and visibility plus gained the ability to run forecast calculations on-demand
Logility’s optimization services have evolved our platform to simplify tasks and allow our supply chain team to focus on more strategic initiatives.
Vice President – Supply Chain North America
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- Reduced forecast error in one division by 50+%
- Achieved record service-level of 99.48%
- Reduced inventory obsolescence to nearly zero on an annual basis
Our strategic growth plans require greater visibility and a flexible platform for both digital and operational supply chain success. Logility has been a key partner in support of our long-term goals and we look forward to new opportunities in the future.
Michael Bever – Executive Vice President Operations
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Deciding on Demand Solutions DSX technology was easy, as it fits with our systems strategy and the user interface is familiar to our many Microsoft Office users.
Kolie Lintvelt – Administration Manager
As we continue to experience rapid growth, working in partnership with Demand Solutions on improving our forecasting process will ensure that we are best positioned to deliver locally-sourced Indian and Asian meal-kits to our customers and consumers in the UK, Australia, Canada and Ireland.
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- Achieved $15 million – $20 million in savings
- Improved service levels by 2%
- Rolled-out across North America and Europe