Capgemini’s Digital Core for Grocery
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Success in the grocery sector requires a data-driven approach to make predictions and analyze trends to better understand consumer preferences.
⇨ To enable this, real-time analytics and visibility across the supply chain are essential.
⇨ Grocery chains can handle these processes more efficiently using Capgemini’s Digital Core for Grocery.
Grocery is a fast-paced sector, where customer satisfaction depends directly on the availability of the correct products, in adequate quantities, and with good quality. Meeting these requirements involves proper streamlining of activities and maintaining efficient supply chain and logistics processes. To be successful, grocery chains need to build strong and connected digital infrastructure that facilitates transparent and quick communication with their suppliers.
Success in the grocery sector requires a data-driven approach to make predictions and analyze trends to better understand consumer preferences. Grocers have to minimize costs yet still meet demand. To enable this, real-time analytics and visibility across the supply chain are essential.
Grocery chains can more efficiently handle these processes using Capgemini’s Digital Core for Grocery. Digital Core is Capgemini’s transformation framework that creates one integrated system that serves as a single source of truth and provides relevant insights promptly, without having to reference multiple data sources. Using the power of SAP technologies and select third-party solutions, Digital Core streamlines operations and increases efficiency. Part of Digital Core is RetailPath, an SAP-certified pre-configured solution to accelerate value realization and minimize expenditure. RetailPath is a prebuilt SAP S4/HANA solution delivering best practice retail processes, accelerators, content, and components.
Digital Core helps with product pricing, and considers market conditions, purchase price, and predicted demand for different categories. The analytical power of SAP Customer Activity Repository and SAP Cloud for Customer are used to provide real-time insights, facilitating companies choosing the right course of action. Timely fulfillment is ensured with Digital Core as it efficiently manages high volumes of in-store fulfillment orders using SAP S/4HANA and third-party ISV solutions. Procurement is handled through supplier contracts in SAP Ariba and SAP S/4 HANA to avoid any delays. Capgemini’s Digital Core Transformation framework offers a precise plan for efficient operations in the grocery sector with minimal time-to-value and fosters growth.
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