Food & grocery

Challenge

As with many industrial sectors, supply chain planning in the food & grocery world is complex due to a limited pool of experienced planners, and a strong reliance on legacy systems still.

Solution

Slim4’s management by exception capability releases burden from manual forecasting and planning, allowing skills to be channelled towards high-level strategy, while repetitive tasks are automated with greater accuracy and efficiency.

Challenge

From rising costs of raw materials and energy, to geopolitical incidents, weather events, and supply blockages, food and grocery is often at the mercy of external issues.

Solution

Slim4 is able to anticipate the impacts of more predictable, seasonal disruptions, but can also pivot plans and optimal strategies according to the real-time situation.

Challenge

Retail customers demand high levels of availability to retain end consumer loyalty. If a product isn’t on a shelf, this leads to lost sales 40% of the time. Food & grocery suppliers are held accountable.

Solution

With complete end-to-end visibility of demand and capacity, you can make promises to retail customers, so they can plan their own assortment, pricing, and sales projections accordingly. Slim4 supports collaboration through data sharing between partners, customers and suppliers.

Challenge

Demand peaks and troughs aren’t always seasonal or predictable. Seasonal peaks, holidays, events, health trends, or sudden weather changes can spark a sudden shift in consumer behaviour that is difficult to forecast.

Solution

Slim4’s AI capabilities ensure forecasting accuracy beyond the capability of any manual operation, providing agility to manage any sudden demand shift, without creating a costly overstocking situation and unnecessary waste.

Challenge

The complexity of planning spans S&OP, production, purchasing, demand, customer support, and much more. Working from inaccurate spreadsheets and across silos creates large problems.

Solution

Slim4 seamlessly integrates with existing systems and ERP solutions. Once embedded, it consolidates data from all departments into one, holistic platform, to unlock new levels of transparency and collaboration.

Challenge

Food safety standards, environmental regulations, labelling laws, import and export legislation, tariff complications – they all require constant monitoring and adherence without disrupting supply.

Solution

Pivot to any new legislation seamlessly. Slim4 allows for new rules to be integrated into the existing calculations to ensure continuous compliance with minimal disruption.