Food and Beverage Industry

Can you see the environmental impact of your suppliers’ suppliers?

Food and beverage companies increasingly recognize the importance of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) objectives. Customers and investors demand it, governments require it, and a changing climate makes the consequences of inaction clearer each year. More than 90% of the ESG footprint is in the supply chain. That means the bulk of your footprint—including the impact of sourcing, processing, transportation, and distribution—is likely outside your direct control or ability to easily measure.

Proactively minimize ESG risk across your entire supply chain

The food and beverage industry is at the forefront of leading this charge. The good news is that decisions to lower ESG risk tend to positively impact the bottom line. And real impact starts with connections and data across all suppliers, customers, and partners. Add in actionable insights to proactively identify sources of opportunity and make informed decisions.

Start meeting ESG objectives

• Track and report ESG impacts using relevant data at every tier of supply, manufacturing, transportation, and distribution
• Source with confidence and optimize partner selection decisions
• Maintain compliance by screening every customer and supplier against worldwide denied party lists
• Make emissions-informed decisions at the point of booking to choose the optimal mode of transportation and route

End-to-end ESG system of record for your supply chain

the extended supply chain, including upstream suppliers, downstream distributors, and logistics partners and every step in between. End-to-end ESG is particularly elusive because the bulk of the footprint—especially Scope 3 GHG emissions—comes from outsourced third parties that are not under your direct control.

Many of the world’s biggest enterprises across various industries already use e2open’s network-based platform to successfully track cost and service metrics. The same core framework can also provide the foundation for an end-to-end ESG system of record for your supply chain.

Learn more at www.e2open.com/by-need/esg-for-supply-chain/

Does your demand plan deal with constrained supply?

Planning for food and beverage supply chains requires accuracy, insight, and speed to support an industry with diverse, fast-moving, and perishable goods. Connectivity with customers is critical in predicting their needs, and connectivity with suppliers is critical in determining the ability to meet those needs.

Build resiliency into your demand plan

Transform traditional planning and meet corporate objectives. Plan collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders. Facilitate consensus by balancing demand, supply, and financial goals. Tap fresh data Global CPG company transforms business planning to deal with a more volatile supply chain and use proven machine learning algorithms to gain cross-functional buy-in, align internal teams and external partners, and evaluate the cost of tradeoffs.

Holistic planning realized

• Improve service levels and on-shelf availability
• Achieve consistently profitable, execution ready plans that balance demand, supply, and financial goals to facilitate consensus across internal and external stakeholders.
• Anticipate, understand, and shape demand with collaborative workflows, machine learning algorithms, and automation, powered by information from across all sales channels.
• Gain 30 to 40% in forecast accuracy by creating accurate near-term forecasts that reflect current market realities using real-time data, automation, and machine learning algorithms

Global CPG company transforms business planning to deal with a more volatile supply chain

With deep roots in agriculture, the company owned the category and grew steadily over time. However, changing consumer preferences started to erode market share, and while rising costs and regulatory pressure created additional challenges and risks. The company transformed its planning process to be more demand-driven and to better collaborate with its suppliers. As a result, inventory costs are down, service levels are up, and planning cycle time is now days instead of weeks.

Does your demand plan survive contact with the real world?

“No demand plan survives first contact with the point of-sale system,” with apologies to Helmuth von Moltke. Demand forecasts and plans have always struggled with accuracy. Now, the deluge of global disruptive events has greatly exacerbated inaccuracy as historical data has become all but obsolete. Planning is and will always be an essential function of supply chains. Successful supply chains need to sense actual demand and supply and act with agility to ensure an optimal outcome.

Sense and respond to spiky demand and supply uncertainty

E2open helps some of the largest food and beverage companies in the world leverage vast and diverse data, supply chain networks, AI/ML, automation, and sensing capabilities to effectively plan and reconcile demand, supply, and inventory; and to constantly monitor, detect, and address real-world deviations from plan that threaten service and financial goals. On average, food and beverage companies have reduced forecast errors by 30 to 40 percent.

Meeting demand with agility realized

• Continuously monitor, detect, and address real-world deviations from plan
• Employ AI to assure supply continuity helps you get ahead of supply shortages and potential stockouts
• Optimize inventory targets for materials, ingredients, and finished products at all stocking locations

Global breakfast food company takes customer fill rates to the next level

By connecting forecasting and retailer data through e2open’s integrated planning and demand sensing capabilities, a global breakfast foods company was able to improve forecast accuracy by 47 percent in cereals and as much as 144 percent in other categories. Accurate daily forecasts based on current signals and visibility to store-level execution data allows the company to sense and respond to changes in fast-moving markets, better serve customers, and maximize performance of product introductions and events.

Is your logistics management system maximizing your spend?

Global supply chain disruptions don’t just impact supply and demand. The orchestration of logistics around the world or down the street has crippled supply chains. Port lockdowns and congestion, capacity shortages, and fluctuating freight rates are testing shippers and carriers alike. An optimized approach has the agility to deal with challenges through network data, end-to end visibility, and the application of AI/ML to detect issues while there is time to take corrective action.

Optimize transportation spend and gain in-transit visibility

Whether inbound or outbound, you need to identify capacity shortfalls, manage by exception, and ensure that the right carrier is hauling the right lane at a market competitive rate. An optimized logistics approach leverages network data to identify areas where carriers are experiencing issues and identifies the best course of action to avoid OTIF (on-time in-full) fines, detention costs, and increased carrier rates.

Optimized logistics realized

• Proactively manage capacity and ensure that the right carrier is hauling the right lane at a market competitive rate
• Transportation planning that lets you make choices that are most environmentally friendly as well as optimize cost and timing
• Streamlined direct-to-consumer fulfillment across town or across the globe

Sargento Reduces Freight Spend and Improves Visibility

Tasked with transporting over 24 million pounds of cheese each month, Sargento needed to eliminate manual shipment processing and gain control of transportation costs. This reputable cheese manufacturer chose to implement a flexible, scalable multimodal transportation management system (TMS) that would meet the company’s operational needs today and in the future. Using e2open’s Transportation Management application, Sargento can automate freight payments, reduce less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments and improve visibility and cost allocation.