As food/beverage and consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms respond to slackening demand, slower growth, continuous cost pressures, and increased global competition, fundamental business practices are facing greater scrutiny than ever before.  Now is the time to dramatically improve cost efficiency, strengthen collaborative relationships with customers and suppliers, maximize IT investments, and renew commitments to customer service.

Collectively, these challenges all have a direct bearing on the supply chain activities -- and the initiatives takes in response can spell the difference between success and failure.  Make sure your organization is prepared to:

• Improve the accuracy of your demand forecast 
• Maximize customer satisfaction while minimizing logistics costs and inventory
• Manage product shelf life
• Minimize inventory across the distribution network and supply chain
• Achieve a consensus demand forecast with participation from sales, marketing, and production
• Optimize capacity allocation according to seasonal factors
• Maintain the proper quantities of materials -- even during fluctuating demand
• Balance conflicting needs for customer responsiveness and production throughput

Investments in CPG operations and supply chain management have historically been subordinate to sales and marketing. But as revenue softens and expenses climb, CPG firms understand that real ROI value lies in rationalizing and streamlining global supply chains.  Automated supply chain solutions, integrated ERP systems, and extranet solutions can all play a critical role -- but only if they're optimized effectively.  Adexa helps make it happen.

• Optimize Resource Investments -- Compare financial KPIs and tie them to value-driving processes to ensure response to business opportunities and threats in a timely manner.
• Stabilize Demand Planning -- Integrate demand data from multiple sources, throughout the distribution network, into reliable consensus forecasts in real-time.
• Reduce Inventory Exposure -- Extend visibility across the supply chain to optimize usage of short-lived ingredients.  Increase flexibility in response to short-term or seasonal demand fluctuations. Hedge against inaccurate forecasts and make the entire supply chain lean, responsive, and reliable.
• Increase Production Schedule Accuracy -- Easily accommodate complexities in planning and scheduling production for different product colors, grades, flavors, sizes, SKUs, and packs.  
• Consolidate Planning -- Integrate sales, inventory and operations to establish a common language for capturing demand and supply information and feeding decisions directly to varied enterprise, plant, and shop floor systems.
• Improve Global Capacity Utilization -- Automatically communicate front-end demand changes to enable responsive reallocation of back-end resources.  Optimize capacity across a multi-tier supply chain and streamline the asset base through a single integrated view.
• Synchronize Multi-Site Production -- Establish a common language for capturing data and feeding decisions back to varied legacy systems and shop floor applications.
• Enable Collaboration -- Deliver better information faster so trading partners can react quicker to changes in the supply chain, helping to reduce inventories, increase freshness shelf-life, and improve customer responsiveness.
• Enhance Customer Service -- Increase flexibility and accelerate order promising with better inventory management and real-time ATP. 
• Measure, Monitor, Notify, and Adjust -- Use hundreds of pre-built, audit-ready approved KPIs across all departments and roles to stay continuously informed about all aspects of production.