Food & Beverage Industry

Transform Your Food & Beverage Supply Chain with SAP

SAP Supply Chain Solutions for Food and Beverage

Addressing Key Challenges in Cost Management, Operational Efficiency, and Compliance

As a leader in the Food and Beverage industry, you are under constant pressure to meet consumer demands for quality and value while managing costs and improving operational efficiencies. In a landscape marked by recalls, tight margins, and supply chain disruptions, leveraging the right technology is not just beneficial—it’s essential.

In the Food and Beverage industry, we face increasing pressure to balance consumer demands for quality and value while controlling costs and enhancing operational efficiencies. Recalls, tight margins, and supply chain disruptions are common challenges. Leveraging the right technology is crucial. With SAP, you can gain real-time visibility and control over your supply chain, enabling manufacturers to monitor the progress of materials, ingredients, and packaging from start to finish, and make informed decisions that drive profitability and responsiveness.

Reveal has extensive experience in the Food and Beverage sector and is proficient in applying the best practices of the industry to help related organizations. Our coaching and facilitation techniques have resulted in improved results in areas such as sales order management, customer allocations, multi-sourcing, procurement automation, supply planning, demand management, OTIF, production planning and scheduling, MRP, warehouse effectiveness, and others. SAP is tailored to manage the complexities of this industry.

Our solutions empower you to:

Optimize Costs: Identify inefficiencies and reduce waste throughout the supply chain, ensuring you maintain competitive pricing without sacrificing quality.

  • Enhance Operational Efficiency: Streamline processes and automate routine tasks, allowing your team to focus on strategic initiatives that drive growth.
  • Ensure Compliance: Maintain rigorous standards for quality and safety, with robust tracking capabilities that facilitate quick responses to recalls and regulatory requirements.

Reveal's clients have already taken the successful step of embracing and adapting to changing consumer tastes and preferences, and implementing an agile supply chain with SAP. For example, Campbell's saved $53M in end-to-end supply chain working capital and reduced inventory by over 39%. Delicato Family Wines reduced overall supply chain exceptions and inefficiencies by 53%

Ready to Transform Your Supply Chain?

Contact us today to learn how Reveal can help you utilize SAP to meet the demands of the modern Food and Beverage industry and drive your business forward.

Achievements
Look at what other professionals in the same field have accomplished and explore how Reveal has contributed to their success.

Success Stories

See what some of your industry peers have achieved and how Reveal has enabled their success.

Employee story: Rutul Thakkar

Campbell's

  • Saved $53M in end-to-end supply chain working capital
  • Reduced inventory by over 39% and improved inventory turns by 38%
  • Increased material availability throughout the supply chain to 97.8%
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Employee story: Rutul Thakkar

Delicato Family Wines

  • Reduced overall supply chain exceptions and inefficiencies by 53%
  • Increased demand signal accuracy by 96% 
  • Optimized 84% of average value of targeted raw materials
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Johnsonville

Johnsonville

  • Ability to perform a batch recall in 2 hours 
  • Rapidly search multiple batches against various material types: raw, work-in-process, by-products, rework, and finished good materials
  • Realtime visibility to received quantity, on hand inventory, consumption, and shipment details of the materials being reviewed.
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Q&A

Q

Can we optimize our production scheduling in SAP to reduce lead times and costs?

SAP and S/4HANA Insights
A

Yes, leverage SAP's Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) tools to balance production loads and minimize downtime. Integrating real-time demand signals can help adjust schedules dynamically to meet changing needs.

Q

What are the best practices for managing inventory in SAP to reduce spoilage and excess stock?

SAP and S/4HANA Insights
A

Implement FIFO (First In, First Out) inventory practices and use SAP's inventory optimization features to monitor stock levels closely. Regularly reviewing safety stock levels based on demand variability can further minimize spoilage.

Q

How can we leverage SAP analytics to identify cost-saving opportunities across our supply chain?

SAP and S/4HANA Insights
A

Utilize SAP Analytics Cloud to analyze supply chain data and identify inefficiencies or bottlenecks. By visualizing key performance indicators, executives can make informed decisions to drive cost reductions.

Next Step

Take a step towards optimizing your SAP enabled supply chain by contacting us or completing a supply chain self-assessment which includes 3 top tips to kickstart your improvements.