Consumer Packaged Goods

Our Expertise

Supply chains are a critical component in this era of disruption, and mastering supply chain operations gives a company in the consumer packaged goods industry a huge competitive advantage that can allow it to grow its brand. Supply chains are no longer perceived as cost centers, but as a major lever for developing new business opportunities and ensuring customer satisfaction.

VSI’s Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) practice enables enterprises to build resilient and optimized supply chains through our industry-specific digital transformations. With the analytics platforms we provide, organizations can gain valuable insights that strengthen decision-making and help them become more consumer-centric.

As consumer behavior changes constantly and technological developments accelerate, VSI’s CPG solutions offer world-class domain expertise across the value chain, enabling businesses to adopt cutting-edge technology innovations that increase business value and enhance consumer experiences.

VSI’s CPG solutions and consulting services allow our customers to receive a range of valuable benefits:

  • More accurate demand and supply planning, resulting from greater visibility across various data points.
  • Automation platforms that significantly improve demand planning and forecasting accuracy levels for consumer goods and services, and achieve improved levels of fulfilment with shorter turnarounds.
  • Expanded inventory visibility across the supply chain.
  • Improved operational performance and efficiencies through digital transformations featuring automation platforms, allowing a transition toward becoming a sustainable “factory of the future.
  • More efficient route planning and last-mile delivery.
  • Access to real-time data to view operational KPIs and accelerate business decisions.
  • More effective and manual warehouse processes, leading to reduced costs.
  • Better decision making, greater efficiency, and improved agility.

Vsi has led our clients value chain transformations and allowed them to stay current with industry trends such as digital supply chains, Industry 4.0, direct-to-consumer business models, and omnichannel experiences. Keeping the customer needs at the forefront, our global consumer goods consulting team delivers valuable results built on our advisory services and end-to-end project executions that leverage AI, automation, and the cloud. With our expertise, we enable companies to realize their hidden potential by delivering CPG solutions for implementing integrated strategies, digital transformations, and much more. We have also worked with Fortune 100 clients across various sectors, including apparel and fashion, food and beverages, home and personal care, and agriculture and tobacco.

VSI’s CPG practice brings organizations up to speed by not only effectively managing their supply chain capabilities, but enhancing those capabilities through a consultative approach and thereby making companies more agile, flexible, and resilient to major disruptions.

Our industry consultants work with clients to adopt innovative consumer goods technology solutions to meet new consumer demands by:

  • Remodelling supply networks.
  • Establishing accurate and effective methods of inventory stocking.
  • Accelerating cycle times.
  • Ensuring successful recycling programs and reducing carbon footprints.

Our client testimonies provide examples of our consumer goods consulting expertise in the areas of order planning and management, the optimization of distribution center (DC) operations, yard and transport management, and enterprise transformations focused around digitization, automation, analytics, and innovation. We are also strategic partners with industry-leading product and service vendors and have successfully completed several global programs dedicated to implementing, deploying, migrating, and supporting portfolios of state-of-the-art CPG solutions.

Vsi’s unique approach to partnering with our clients and identifying key areas of differentiation in their integrated digital supply chain transformation can help them develop a competitive edge and the ability to embrace changes quickly. By delivering IP solutions from conceptualization to execution, redefining go-to-market strategies, and leading customer workshops, we ensure our clients needs are fulfilled across the consumer goods and services value chain.

Our delivery excellence is driven by our centers of excellence (COEs) and the knowledge we’ve gained from previous engagements implementing best practices and collaborating in partner ecosystems. We regularly publish point-of-view articles and white papers that define our views on the market, the latest trends, and the future technology investments that will shape digital supply chain operations in the consumer packaged goods sector.

Our Success Stories

Consumer Packaged Goods

Product Assortment & Enhanced customer experience for one of the world’s largest cosmetics companies.

A leading chemical and cosmetics brand wanted to improve its on-shelf availability and reduce out-of-stock scenarios.

Better Forecasts Lead to Better Profits: A Demand Analytics Solution for a Major Food Producer

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Consumer Packaged Goods

Making Trade Promotions More Effective for a British Personal Care Company

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What we Think

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Ahead of The Curve: 2025 Innovation Imperatives for Consumer Packaged Goods

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Our Success Stories

Unlocking CPG warehouse management innovations with edge

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Carlton & United Breweries (CUB): a transformation journey with Wipro Promax

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Proactive monitoring of eCommerce and retail orders

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Machine learning helping a leading beverage company improve its forecast accuracy and tighten its inventory

With significant cost pressures comes opportunity for more optimized revenue management.

$3Mn+ incremental revenue in six months, for a leading global personal care company using Wipro's Trade Promotion Optimization Solution

The market leader in oral, personal, and homecare products wanted to develop capabilities to measure and optimize their trade promotion investments.

Leading global packaged foods manufacturer slashes loss-making promotions by 24% through trade promotion optimization

Promax Optimize enabled the world’s largest manufacturer of food products with predictive modeling and promotion optimization capabilities

Leading the way in the #4thIndustrialRevolution with Wipro: Levi Strauss & Co.

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Japan Tobacco International – Delivering digital transformation with Vsi

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Levi Strauss & Co. : Crafting excellence by integrating IT and BPO services

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What We Think

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The Changing Face of the Beauty Industry

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Changing paradigms in the Indian consumer goods sector – imperatives for CPG companies

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Reimagining the new normal for CPGs post COVID-19

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Post-Pandemic Growth in the US Will Be Digital-First and Cloud-Led

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A Financial Framework for Effective Trade Promotion: The Big Picture

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The Impact of Direct to Customer on Consumer Goods Organizations

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Hyper-Personalization in CPG: Delivering Next-level Consumer Experiences

Hyper-personalization can tailor marketing offers to what each customer wants via geolocation marketing, Smart segmentation and Smart referral that uses AI-driven algorithms to influence consumer behavior.

The Next Wave of Direct-to-Consumer Startups Is Coming

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