Successful Collaboration that Delivers Results

To thrive in this competitive market, companies need to improve collaboration among value chain partners, from suppliers, manufacturers and wholesalers to retailers and consumers.

With thousands of professionals dedicated to the consumer products industry, Capgemini helps you gain a competitive advantage by integrating flexible, sustainable and robust solutions for the value chain. This solid foundation positions your company to buy, produce and distribute goods more intelligently and in closer collaboration with partners.

Optimizing the Value Chain

By creating strong relationships with suppliers, retailers and other trading partners, you can improve product flow throughout the value chain. We work with you to achieve this through:

• Demand planning, forecasting and replenishment
• Logistics and fulfilment
• Inventory management
• Retailer collaboration and trade promotions management
• Supplier collaboration and sourcing
• Product safety and traceability
• Supply chain visibility and control

Collaboration Drives Cost Reduction

The current economic climate demands greater, deeper collaboration between manufacturers and retailers, particularly to jointly reduce costs and improve the on-shelf rate of sale.
Capgemini helps companies achieve these benefits across the supply chain by focusing on several key areas:

• Reducing costs across the supply chain: from production to logistics to the store
• Improving supply chain efficiencies: with the use of standardized data formats such as global data synchronization and data pools
• Improving sustainability: with collaborative approaches such as joint warehousing or collaborative transport