Consumer Goods

Provide products in the right quantities and at the right time. Respond to a variable demand strongly affected by promotions and discounts. On-going innovation, an ever broader range of products, tight lead-times dictated by retailers, strong competition with private-labels: these are some of the issues facing the Consumer Goods Sector.

In managing processes end-to-end, TXTPerform tackles typical issues of each Consumer Goods industry:

• Food & Beverage and CPG
• Pharma & Care
• Consumer Durables.

Food & Beverage and CPG:

• Daily forecasts for new, promoted and discounted products
• Management of increasing number of SKUs in an ever highly segmented market
• Planning of commercial promotions
• Shelf-life management
• Surplus management and inverted bill of materials (meat & poultry)
• Management of by- and co-products
• Stock-level optimization.

Pharma & Care (pharmaceuticals, sanitary products and cosmetics):

• Collaborative forecasts with subsidiaries, wholesalers and distributors (products subject to promotions and advertising as consumer goods)
• management of intermediate warehouses and shelf-life constraints
• Support in marketing, similar but not identical products, in relation to 'local' constraints (e.g. packaging regulations) and different national legislations
• Management of complex distribution networks, often on an international scale

Consumer Durables:

• Multi-plant production scheduling, including subcontractors
• Forecast management for new products in-line with a push towards fast product innovation and, the increasing dependence of 'functional and durable' products on 'fashion-like' logics with short life cycles
• Managing complex production processes and co-ordination of a sprawling supplier network.