Consumer Package Goods
Despite efforts by Consumer Packaged Goods companies to work harder, faster and smarter, many are struggling to deliver sustainable revenue and earnings growth. Gone are the days of rapid category or market growth, steady margin expansion and accretive acquisitions. CPG companies are facing tough performance challenges on all fronts:
BearingPoint supports and enables its clients in this battle for sustainable performance. While it continues to offer a broad set of consulting services and solutions for Supply Chain Management, Systems Integration and Enterprise Performance, its CPG team is increasingly focusing on services and solutions that help enable top-line growth. While everyone recognizes that Innovation is the key to sustainable performance - and it seems to be the leading theme for business journals this year - most CPG companies still struggle with filling their innovation pipeline, screening the best concepts, allocating resources to maximize portfolio performance and managing projects to deliver attractive brand propositions while beating competitors to the market. Few companies have mastered the complexity of aligning strategy, people, processes and tools for successful innovation that goes beyond product line and brand extension to deliver category and share growth and renewed pricing power through new product platforms. BearingPoint can help through a diagnostic “QuickScan” of your innovation capabilities, process and organization realignment, or implementation of enhances tools - from Project and Portfolio Management to PLM. Business Intelligence is about accurately measuring the key drivers of sustainable performance and growth. Many CPG companies still have too much data but not enough information, and struggle to make fact-based decisions in a timely manner. In addition, the increased sharing of POS data is creating new opportunities for more robust analytics - from promotion effectiveness to customer or product line performance. BearingPoint helps to define the business value of better information and implement Business Intelligence solutions including…Data Warehousing, Promotion Analytics, Performance Dashboards, and CRM Applications. For CPG companies as in other industries, traditional Supply Chains are transforming into extended supply networks where tiers of suppliers collaborate to meet consumer demand while maximizing the efficiency of the value chain. Synchronized Demand Networks can deliver the next wave of chain-wide inventory reduction while enabling revenue growth by reducing on-shelf out of stocks by 50%! Bearing Point’s Supply Chain Management team is also independently recognized for their RFID capabilities and PowerFactor - tool-kit for Operational Excellence that leverages the best of Six-Sigma, Lean and Score methodologies. (PowerFactor is a BearingPoint Joint Venture with Procter & Gamble).