Consumer Packaged Goods

Accelerating digital transformation in CPG

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies and their eco-system of tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers and service providers face significant pressure to overhaul their operations and adapt to the ever-evolving landscape of this vibrant industry. We help customers to drive change in different area’s including Omni channel distribution, supplier integration and collaboration, 3rd party operations or quality, sustainability and risk management.

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Cost down

With increasing inflation and interest rates, there is substantial pressure from retailers to drive purchase prices down to demonstrate they are doing their utmost to keep price increases as low as possible. At the same time input material, manufacturing cost, and personnel costs keep increasing. The further need to increase efficiency in every aspect of P2P is relentless. A digital supply chain is a starting condition to drive benefits from tools such as AI, and smart contracts as well as further reduction of waste of scarce labor on non-value-added tasks.

25%

Supplier churn

Industry research demonstrates an increasing supplier churn rate. Due to recent volatility in demand combined with supply disruptions, companies need to rethink their sourcing strategies, such as moving from single-source inputs to a dual-sourcing strategy. Combined with the evolving consumer retail trends and economic climate this trend is here to stay. As a result, manufacturers of CPG have to be able to onboard up to 25% of net new suppliers each year, which also requires solid integration and collaboration processes.

45%

Demand changes

While overall demand from retailers appears to continue to be strong, the actual product mix at the CPG manufacturer’s level has large fluctuations at the product and SKU level due to short product life cycles, SKU proliferation as well and changes in product mix. As a result supplier schedules change constantly which has an effect on orders, inventory as well as logistics. This requires an organization that is both agile and cost-efficient, which can only be accomplished with a digital supply chain.

Start improving on your biggest priority within 90 days

Whether your focus lies on improving collaboration processes around procurement, forecasts, inventory, subcontract manufacturing, logistics, food safety and quality, or invoicing, with our apps we offer you a unique value proposition of having a cost-effective and modular solution with the flexibility to start your digital transformation project from any prioritized business need.

Of course, you have your internal systems and a potentially complex IT landscape. Quyntess' supply chain apps can perfectly integrate with those, allowing you to fully automate your business processes directly from your backend systems to an entire ecosystem of global business partners, while already reaping savings and benefits within just a matter of weeks.

Fast and easy supplier onboarding

Your supplier base will probably include international suppliers of different sizes and IT capabilities. With an annual supplier turnover of up to 25%, integration complexities and delays in onboarding these suppliers can impact your procurement and supply chain operations. Quyntess offers composable supply chain management apps that can operate from a network-centric, AI-powered platform, such as Tradeshift. By covering 190 countries, with over 2.5 million pre-connected companies, our supply chain app suite can instantly be activated to deal with this pace of change.

Visibility and supplier performance

CPG is one of the industries with the highest adoption of standardized B2B integration processes around orders, shipments, and invoices. But how do you know what you don’t know? Our automated workflows across the P2P domain focus on the events that have NOT been reported but should have and measure their potential impact on supply chain performance. Our digital assistant chases suppliers to resolve these exceptions proactively. These work at all levels: from supplier performance and SLA compliance to projected item balances at the SKU level.

Collaboration and integration beyond P2P

If supplier challenges with digital schedules, orders, despatch advice (DESADV), and invoices are solved, where is the next barrier to a digital supply chain? Contracts and contract changes? Quality and claim management processes? Managing product master data? Our supply chain management apps allow you to control the entire Procure-to-Pay cycle beyond the purchase order, including managing all of these aspects above.

3rd Party Management

With our focus on a digital network of suppliers in stead of 1:1 relationships we have developed a rather unique angle on “multi-party” collaboration scenarios such as co-manufacturing, co-packing, drop shipments from raw material suppliers to 3rd party locations as well as shipments to retailers and DC’s from these locations. Industrialize these processes that are now often handled with cobbled solutions and extra man power.

"Very friendly staff that is in contact with our suppliers, as they represent the organization in some way, it is good to know that we can trust the team in the contact with suppliers."

Peer Insights™

Project & Portfolio Management
Consumer Packaged Goods

"More than a like-for-like technical migration, this is a passport for new business opportunities. It helps Danone build credibility with its suppliers and core business units."

Laurent Schatz

Global Planning S&OP Manager
Danone

"We close the year with an enhanced solution that answers a number of requirements and has driven simplification in the business, particularly in the receiving process."

Peer Insights™

IT & Supply Chain
Food & Beverages Industry

Supply Chain Apps that can meet any business priority without complicated "suite" deployments.

With our composability promise we provide API-driven process integration between apps and external systems. These give you the flexibility to pursue your specific digital transformation priorities. We support you in consolidating your end-to-end supply chain processes, whether it starts with procurement, forecasts, inventory, co-manufacturing, logistics, quality, sustainability, risk management, or invoicing. It is all available for you in one single collaborative business network.

Because we incorporated the complexity in our application and integration data model, your teams and their business partners only have to navigate the intuitive user interface to manage their role in the supply chain. That means more real-time data, smarter performance indicators, better AI, and an increasingly resilient supply chain ecosystem.

Shipment Collaboration

With the Shipment Collaboration App, suppliers can easily build shipments from open Order Lines or Delivery Schedules and announce these to buyers as well as to a logistic service provider. These Advance Shipment Notifications (ASNs) are your most effective control of actual supply performance. Advanced features are also available, such as "pack-and-stack", and data enrichment with serial numbers and certificates.

Order Collaboration

The Order Collaboration App optimizes collaboration around supply contracts including time-phased quantity and price commitments. It can also handle purchase order based processes between buyers and sellers that are not captured by standard EDI. Our hybrid workflows allow you to plug holes in EDI processes and provide a real-time collaboration layer to manage exceptions, including non-reported transactions and exceptions.

Inventory Collaboration

The Inventory Collaboration App helps to manage visibility and exception management throughout the supply chain. This includes items in supplier or 3rd party locations, on wheels, or otherwise in transit with a unique projected item balance visibility capability. This will also support different Vendor Managed Inventory and Supplier Managed Inventory scenarios in conjunction with our other supply chain management apps.

QIS 360° EDI

EDI is most commonly used in the CPG industry. In a fragmented IT landscape within multiple departments, we connect your ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and carriers. Our experience with all these partners among which many are also our customers, provides the connectivity as well as the industry expertise to digitally transform CPG better than anyone else. Our subscription-based SaaS model avoids one-off set-up costs and is flexible to cancel or exchange in line with industry dynamics.

SCM Dashboard

The Supply Chain Management Dashboard app makes Business Intelligence (BI) collaborative. A combination of industry-specific KPIs as well as actionable analytics with direct access to tasks and exceptions in all the other apps used provide a unique level of control. Challenge suppliers with real-time measurement of their Service Level Agreements and help them with tools that intuitively guide them to the actions required. Our technology blends seamlessly with your internal BI tools in both directions.

Can't find a suitable solution for your priority?

The Quyntess Supply Chain Management suite consists of 13 comprehensive apps that allow you to improve end-to-end collaboration across the supply chain. Learn more about each app and find a suitable solution to match your business requirements around quality and service collaboration, logistics collaboration and dock scheduling, product master data management, or electronic invoicing. It is all available for you in one single collaborative business network.

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