Overview
The Autonomous Journey: Transforming Demand Planning in CPG and Retail Supply Chains
Do you want to learn how you can add resiliency to your supply chain so you’re not left flat-footed when the next disruption occurs?
Modernize and optimize your supply chain with AWS
Improve supply chain resiliency with the broadest set of purpose-built, scalable data and ML services to help ensure product availability, optimize inventory, and cut costs. With AWS, you can manage your inventory throughout your supply chain, deliver to your customers with precision, and improve operational efficiencies—instead of maintaining the IT infrastructure to make it happen.
Benefits
Improve supply chain resilience and agility while reducing costs
With AWS, CPG companies can gain end-to-end visibility to track and trace products through the entire supply chain, break down data silos across the supply network, and use AI to identify potential risks, improve forecasts, optimize inventory, and reduce distribution costs.
Featured solutions
Peak – Demand Intelligence
Peak AI enables customers to connect the entire customer journey by optimizing every touchpoint with Artificial Intelligence.
o9 Solutions – Demand, Supply, IBP, Control Tower
o9 Solutions offer AI and knowledge-powered planning & decision-making platform, enabling a truly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) capability for driving supply chain agility, revenue growth, and optimal financial performance.
Guidance for Geospatial Insights for Sustainability on AWS
Observe land use changes using geospatial data to support supply chain best practices.
Solutions by use case
Demand Forecasting & Planning
Sophisticated ML and deep learning models that can incorporate detailed internal and external data to improve demand planning and inventory management.
Supply & Inventory Planning
Analyze internal and external supply chain data sources to predict risks and prescribe recommendations to better manage inventory and capacity.
Value Chain Transparency
Unlock insights to help CPG organizations improve supply chain transparency, assess supplier performance, and demonstrate compliance.
Customer stories
We work with the industry’s leading consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies—innovators and pioneers—who expect more from their technology partners and know that great experiences speak louder than words. Learn more about the exciting ways CPG companies are leading their customer journeys with AWS.
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How Heineken’s Connected Brewery Ecosystem fuels automation
Wiggert Deelen, Senior Director of Global Supply Chain Transformation at the Heineken Company, shares how he and his team crafted Heineken’s Connected Brewery Ecosystem while drawing attention to some lessons they learned along the way.
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Aramex improved product deliveries with ML
With the help of AWS and AWS Partner Inawisdom, Aramex, a global logistics company, deployed an ML-based science platform and improved shipping accuracy by 74%.
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Carrier prevents food waste with IoT, analytics, and ML
Carrier worked with AWS to develop Lynx, a digital platform that unifies and streamlines the cold chain.
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Kimberly-Clark optimized processes with a digital twin using SAP data
With the help of AWS Partner, Llamasoft, Kimberly-Clark, one of the largest CPG companies in the world, created an AWS digital twin to accelerate growth in the Chinese market. As the market expanded, the company realized significant logistics cost savings and redeployed human resources to other activities.
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Royal FloraHolland improved operational efficiencies with ML
As the world’s largest flower auction company, Royal FloraHolland wanted to become data driven. The company worked with AWS ML Competency Partner, Xebia, to develop a data science program to optimize operations.
Innovate with key CPG industry partners
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Infor Supply Chain Management
Infor Supply Chain Management solutions deliver intelligent, real-time supply chain orchestration by digitalizing end-to-end supply chain processes.
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SAP
Respond quickly and cost-effectively to changes in supply, demand, and market conditions, with agile integrated supply chain planning software from SAP.
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Trax
Trax provides an accurate and consistent way for CPG manufacturers and retailers to collect, measure, and analyze what is happening on the physical shelf.
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Noodle.ai
Noodle.ai is a leader in FlowOps, a category of AI software that aims to eliminate operations entropy across an entire supply chain, from raw materials to shelf.
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Coupa Software
Coupa Supply Chain Design & Planning powered by LLamasoft delivers the science behind smarter, faster supply chain decisions powered by AI.
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Anaplan
Connected Planning aligns people, data, and plans across every part of the business for improved, faster decision-making.
AWS Service partners
Our network of AWS CPG Service Partners offers strategy and deployment services to CPG brands to help accelerate their digital transformation and innovation journey across all areas of the enterprise.
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Peak
Peak allows retailers and CPG brands to supercharge the supply and demand cycle to maximize profit and increase forecasting and purchasing accuracy.
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Plantensive
Plantensive helps customers implement and optimize dynamic and reliable supply chain, retail planning, and category management solutions to meet demand efficiently and build network resiliency.
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Deloitte
AWS and Deloitte empower CPG companies to transform their business, innovate faster, and grow ahead of the curve by combining cloud technologies with deep experience.
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Infosys
Infosys Retail offers supply chain management solutions to streamline the flow of various products from the point of order to fulfilment.
AWS Marketplace
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SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better.
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Anaplan
Connected Planning aligns people, data and plans across every part of the business for improved, faster decision-making.
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Noodle.ai
FlowOps is a new category of AI software for CPGs. It is designed to help take supply chain and manufacturing operations reach a new level of performance.
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Peak
Peak allows businesses to gain a unified view of demand to fulfill orders and optimize replenishment, augmented with AI-driven predictions and forecasts.
The Autonomous Journey: How CPG Firms Can Transform Supply Chain Demand Planning
Order allocation is critical for responding to demand volatility. Using best practices and new AI/ML capabilities, CPG companies can make order-allocation decisions in real time, at scale, across an evolving omnichannel.
Resources
See related technical guides, solution briefs, blogs, and much more.
Data-driven Demand Planning: Managing Disruption in CPG with ML and Demand
CPG Partner Conversations: Managing Global Supply Chains into the Future with Plantensive
