Demand Planning

In this third and final article in our series, Climbing the Sales and Operations Maturity Ladder, we explore the characteristics of S&OP process maturity and recommend actions you can take today to move to higher levels of S&OP capability.

Our client, a multi-billion-dollar consumer goods company faced complications with demand planning. Operating in over 60+ countries, with 20 million products sold daily, data acquisition from unorganized sources and formats was challenging, inconsistency and questionable data quality added to their problem. Learn how we helped them streamline their data acquisition.

The 100-year-old- co-op was confronted with more disruption during an eight-week period than it had experienced in eight years.

Artificial intelligence has been used widely to address a huge righty variety of business challenges and opportunities. Where it hasn’t been deployed all that often is in the area of sustainability and general corporate responsibility.

With consumer goods navigating a historic period of disruption, a recent snapshot survey takes the temperature of the reactions and responses from across the industry. We emailed with its creators for greater context around the numbers, including some actionable takeaways.  

The CG industry had already been evolving efforts to address new industry trends, and the onset of COVID-19 served as a sharp accelerant for many a company strategy. See where execs are currently focusing their efforts — and where they may need to dedicate more resources.

The supply chain planning software from ToolsGroup is expected to enable Melitta Sales Europe to centralize demand planning and improve S&OP and promotions management.

A new study sheds light on key marketplace and consumer trends that suddenly became critical for CG companies to use as they create game plans to respond, recover and thrive beyond the pandemic.