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Leaving Lagging Indicators Behind: How a Global Food & Beverage Giant Mastered Proactive Planning

With over 2,000 brands under its belt, this global food and beverage leader couldn't afford to be reactive. However, highly manual, backward-looking planning processes left them blind to emerging demand risks and opportunities. Discover how they partnered with o9 Solutions to replace spreadsheets and legacy systems with an intelligent, integrated platform—enabling faster gap detection, higher-ROI commercial spend, and a significant reduction in food waste.

The integrated business planning processes were highly manual and focused on the past, which did not allow the company to spot demand risks and opportunities fast enough. This resulted in an inability to respond to the market with the optimal solution.

Sustainability impact

Reduction of food waste and reduction of logistics expedites.

challenges

Complexity to Clarity

Challenge

The company was unable to detect gaps in planning and any other risks and opportunities quickly enough due to their focus on sell-in (lagging indicator).

Solution

With o9, they were able to understand the drivers of demand and bring those together for faster gap detection and response.

Value Delivery

Systems Replaced

  • SAP APO
  • PowerPoint
  • Excel

Key Functionalities Implemented

The o9 Enterprise Knowledge Graph was used to build market, demand, and supply-knowledge models, allowing the running of the entire IBP process for all categories, brands, channels, accounts, and countries in a single integrated platform.

Customer Benefits

success factors

  • o9’s highly differentiated knowledge graph allows for intelligent planning across time horizons.
  • The ability to bring commercial, supply chain, and finance together on an easy-to-use and intelligent platform.
  • Highly competent o9 team with great industry experience.

KPI Impacted

  • Improved commercial spend (selecting commercial initiatives with the highest ROI).
  • Faster response to market opportunities resulting in improvement of top-line.
  • Reduction of non-standard supply chain cost (flex, expedites, alternative sourcing) through better planning.

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