Modernize Your Food & Beverage Supply Chain

A guide to lowering costs and improving customer service with streamlined, integrated, and data-driven operations.

Supply Chain Management: Yesterday vs. Today

The world’s gigantic leap into digital global commerce has changed how goods are delivered to customers.

Yet many food and beverage companies fall somewhere closer to yesterday than today in terms of supply chain modernization — which means missed opportunities to reduce costs and complexity, respond to customer needs, and improve customer experience (CX).

Yesterday

  • Full truckloads = efficiency
  • Reactive and planning-focused
  • Siloed functions and linear processes
  • Limited data and visibility
  • Single-point software solutions
  • Disconnected service providers
  • Emails and reports
  • Cost-driven KPIs

Today

  • Agility = efficiency
  • Proactive and action-focused
  • Integrated and flexible processes
  • Data-driven and transparent
  • Unified platform of shared applications
  • Optimized services via provider networks
  • Mobility, on-demand insight, real-time data
  • Customer-centric KPIs


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