Consumer Products

Consumer products refer to products purchased by the average consumer for consumption. Some examples of consumer products are food, beverages, clothing, and gasoline. The consumption of consumer products is vital to promoting economic growth, it accounts for about two-thirds of trade in the world economy.

SAP Consumer Products are helping companies to exceed the diverse expectations of consumers, while enabling sustainability and profitability growth. Innovative technologies like loT and AI are helping to revolutionize internal processes while maximizing speed and scalability.

SAP Consumer Products Key Capabilities:

Consumer products refer to products purchased by the average consumer for consumption. Some examples of consumer products are food, beverages, clothing, and gasoline. The consumption of consumer products is vital to promoting economic growth, it accounts for about two-thirds of trade in the world economy.

SAP Consumer Products are helping companies to exceed the diverse expectations of consumers, while enabling sustainability and profitability growth. Innovative technologies like loT and AI are helping to revolutionize internal processes while maximizing speed and scalability.

SAP Consumer Products Key Capabilities:

  • Consumer data and insights. Cloud-based AI powered analytics to gain greater understanding of each shopper.
  • Sustainable products. Full product transparency of raw materials, treatment, packaging, and delivery through QR codes and other means.
  • Omnichannel shopping. Seamless omnichannel experiences by investing in e-commerce, data management, marketing, and omnichannel fulfillment solutions.
  • Supply chain resilience. Modernizing the supply chain through loT sensors, blockchain, integrated data, and real-time analytics.

SAP Consumer Product Technology and Solutions include:

  • Product innovation. Includes product design for faster time to market, product development and recipe formulation, feedback inspired innovation and product experiences, product safety and compliance, and environmental impact and zero-waste commitments.
  • Goods manufacturing. Smart manufacturing with industry 4.0 capabilities, full visibility across supply production inventory and demand, reduced environment health and safety risks, predictive asset analytics and preventative maintenance, sustainable manufacturing, and reduced resource consumption.
  • CPG supply chain. Integrated supply chain planning and execution, smart warehouse and transportation management, open collaborative supplier and logistics networks, end-to-end supply chain transparency with track and trace, and reduced carbon footprint and improved supply chain sustainability.
  • Marketing, sales, and customer experience. 360-degree customer views and real-time CPG analytics, omnichannel commerce and customer service, intelligent micro-segmentation and seamless customer journeys, marketing performance and spend management, value-added services, and subscription billing management.

Featured SAP Consumer Product Solutions are:

  • SAP Responsible Design and Production
  • SAP Logistics Business Network
  • SAP S/4HANA

Key considerations for SAPinsiders are:

  • Why Today’s Economy Demands a New Mindset. This article explains how it requires a fundamental shift in mindset to create value through improved experiences successfully. Learn the four common traits exhibited by organizations that have mastered the experience economy.
  • Breakthru Beverage Uses E-Commerce to Expand Distribution. Read this member insight to see how Breakthru Beverage Group, a North American distributor of wine, sprits, and beer has a core mission is to be the best and most assessable distributor in the industry to work with. They are able to adopt quickly to the changing demand patterns due to the end-to-end SAP Commerce Cloud and SAP Data Cloud solutions.
  • Evaluating Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA for Consumer Goods and Retail. Read this insight to see how consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and retailers are experimenting with new human-centric experiences to better engage their customers, creating high value, faster growth, and better ROI.

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  1. mindset

    Why Today’s Economy Demands a New Mindset

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    As companies are starting to look at how to connect operational data (O-data) with experience data (X-data), they are realizing that, in today’s economy, it is more important than ever. And they are also realizing that creating value through improved experiences for both customers and employees takes more than just technology. It requires a fundamental…

  2. American Snack Company Saves Millions by Improving SAP TM User Experience

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    Approximately 23% of SAP customers currently use SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) according to SAPinsider's "Transforming the Intelligent Supply Chain" research. This makes it the second most popular SAP supply chain product after SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO). SAP customers that use SAP TM are 83% more likely to focus on digital transformation…

  3. Financials: Case study: How Vivint prepared for an SAP S/4HANA implementation

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    Take an in-depth look at how Vivint undertook its greenfield implementation of SAP S/4HANA (with regard to finance and the supply chain). FIN2017_Hollands_Kelliher_Casestudyhowvivintprepared J. Scott Hollands If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor. Patrick Kelliher If you have comments about this...…

  4. Financials: Case study: How National Vision implemented a dynamic forecast process with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation

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    Learn how National Vision is making better and well-informed business and investment decisions by modeling financial information with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. FIN2017_Hertling_Casestudyhownationalvision Matthew Hertling If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a member to…

  5. BI & HANA: Case study: How Newell Brands is finding everyday practical uses for SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori

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    Gain insight from the Newell Brands’ experiences embedding SAPUI5 applications into use cases with less complexity than with previous technologies. here Mohammed Siddiqui If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View…

  6. BI & HANA: Case study: How Callaway Golf unleashes the potential of embedded BW for real-time dashboarding

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    Learn how Callaway Golf leverages embedded BW functionality for its real-time reporting needs. here Norman Ruppert If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here

  7. Callaway Golf Finds the Green with SAP HANA

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    Callaway Golf, a pioneer and innovator of golfing gear, found it was spending more time waiting for reports than on the green. Its legacy system was sluggish, with key planning reports taking up to 32 hours to complete, and user productivity was significantly lowered as a result. IT leaders knew it was time for a…

  8. American Outdoor Brands Takes Aim at a New Beginning

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    American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC) is experiencing the beginning of a new business direction. Originally the well-known firearms company Smith and Wesson, recent success has led AOBC to rapid acquisitions, expansion into new markets, and a rebranding that reflects its broadened focus. But in order to continue this growth, AOBC needed a new IT infrastructure…

  9. Dolby Delivers Emotionally Charged Experiences with Next-Generation SAP HANA Database

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    Dolby Laboratories, a leader in audio, video, and voice technology, has always been on the technological cutting-edge. But when it came to internal business intelligence (BI) solutions, Dolby had room for improvement. Lengthy delays, data redundancy, and lack of agility hampered the company from deriving insights as fast as it wanted. Learn about Dolby’s journey…

  10. David Leadbetter Golf Scores a Hole in One with SAP Business One

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    Among golf enthusiasts, David Leadbetter Golf is a household name in golf instruction, including personal lessons, product design, and training goods and services. This article explores how the growing company transitioned from relying on spreadsheet-based manual processes to SAP Business One in the cloud in order to achieve a 15% increase in revenue, 10% decrease…