Purpose-built AI agents for CPG supply chains. We handle shelf life complexity, seasonal demand volatility, promotional forecasting, retailer compliance, and perishable inventory optimization so your team can focus on growth and margin.
Overstock accelerates spoilage; understock forces expedited replenishment and OTIF failures.
Static forecasts miss promotional lift and seasonal patterns; manual adjustments per promotion limit accuracy.
OTIF penalties are material; missing one unit amid planogram compliance constraints triggers failure.
DSD, retail, foodservice, and e-commerce channels operate on different lead times and demand patterns; unified forecasting is nearly impossible without AI.
Overstock turns to waste directly; a 5-10% reduction in excess inventory flows to bottom line.
Rules of thumb and planner intuition break under new promotional mechanics or low-volume SKUs.
Your competitors are already moving. Retailers are demanding tighter OTIF windows. CPG companies that adopted AI demand sensing in 2024-2025 are seeing 20%+ improvements in forecast accuracy. The margin penalty for falling behind on planning automation is growing every quarter.
Food and beverage supply chains need specialized AI. We do not apply generic demand planning. Our agents are built specifically for shelf-life sensitivity, multi-channel distribution, and promotional complexity.
Promotional and seasonal forecasting
Our Review agent integrates trade promotion calendars, promotional mechanics, and historical lift data to forecast the impact of pricing changes, marketing spend, and promotional events. It identifies promotional forecast errors in real time and flags systematic biases.
For seasonal demand, the agent learns month-by-month, week-by-week patterns specific to your products and regions. It accounts for school holidays, weather, competitor activity, and demand spillover from adjacent SKUs or categories.
Business impact: Forecast accuracy improves 5-8 percentage points within 10 weeks. Planning teams spend 30-40% less time on manual forecast adjustments per promotion cycle.
Perishable rotation, waste reduction, shelf-life management
Our Sensing agent monitors inventory aging, shelf-life remaining, and rotation velocity across your distribution network. It flags products approaching expiry and triggers dynamic pricing, promotional clearance, or donation recommendations.
The agent also sets replenishment policies that account for shelf-life constraints. Instead of standard min-max rules, it calculates optimal stock levels that minimize both stockout risk and waste, factoring in lead times and demand volatility specific to each SKU and location.
Business impact: Waste reduction of 5-10% typically realized within 16 weeks. Improved forecast accuracy also reduces excess inventory carrying cost by 10-15%.
Multi-channel DSD, retail ordering, ingredient sourcing
Our Outreach agent automates replenishment communication across your supply base. It manages direct-store delivery routing, retail EDI ordering, and foodservice ordering in a unified workflow. The agent monitors supplier lead times, quality metrics, and delivery performance.
For ingredient sourcing, the agent monitors supplier capacity constraints, quality certifications, and compliance requirements. It flags supply risk early, recommends supplier diversification, and automates routine RFQ and order management.
Business impact: OTIF improves by 10-15pp. Procurement cost reduction of 5-12% through consolidation and better negotiation. Supplier disruption visibility cuts lead time response from days to hours.
Full supply chain ownership for mid-market CPG companies
We run demand planning, inventory optimization, and supplier management as an integrated service. Our agents work together to balance competing priorities: service level, inventory investment, waste reduction, and OTIF compliance.
A Supply Chain Partner, backed by our AI agents and specialist expertise, owns P&L accountability for working capital, procurement savings, and service level performance. We operate across all SKUs, all channels, and all supplier relationships.
Business impact: Typical engagement delivers 7-10% cost reduction, 10-15pp service level improvement, 15-20% working capital improvement, and eliminates the overhead of building a 5-10 person supply chain function.
A European frozen food producer operates 400 SKUs across 12 product lines, sold through 6 major retailers and foodservice channels. Promotional calendars change monthly. Seasonal demand peaks in Q4 and holiday periods. Planning teams spend 60 hours per week adjusting forecasts before each demand cycle because baseline models have no promotional logic and miss seasonal patterns.
We deploy our Review agent to run promotional lift modeling and seasonal pattern analysis. The agent learns historical promotional uplift curves, identifies demand spillover between products, and flags forecast errors automatically. Planners now review and approve the agent's adjustments rather than building forecasts from scratch.
Within 10 weeks, forecast accuracy improves from 68% to 74%. Planning teams reduce weekly adjustment time from 60 hours to 25 hours, freeing capacity for S&OP commercial discussions and promotional ROI analysis. Inventory carrying cost drops 8% as forecasts become more accurate.
A North American beverage manufacturer ships to major retailers with strict delivery windows (e.g., Tuesday 8am-10am delivery to distribution center, case pack must match planogram). OTIF compliance is 92% because planners use lead-time averages without accounting for variability. A 1-2 unit stockout forces a missed delivery, triggering a 2-5% penalty on invoice value.
We deploy our Sensing and Outreach agents as managed operations. Sensing sets replenishment safety stock using demand and lead-time distributions specific to each retailer and SKU. Outreach automates delivery scheduling, flags at-risk shipments 72 hours in advance, and recommends corrective actions (expedited sourcing, substitute SKU). Our Supply Chain Partner monitors OTIF daily and escalates breaches in real time.
Within 12 weeks, OTIF improves from 92% to 98%. OTIF penalties drop 60%. Over a year, that recovers 2-3% of at-risk revenue. Service level confidence with retailers improves, opening doors for new shelf space and product launches.
A UK fresh produce distributor operates 200 SKUs with 3-14 day shelf lives. Demand is volatile and highly seasonal. Inventory rotation is manual and often late. Currently, 8% of purchased product spoils in distribution centers or retail stores before sale, representing 3%+ of gross margin loss.
We deploy Sensing and Review agents to monitor inventory aging and forecast more accurately by retail location. Sensing flags stock approaching expiry and triggers automated alerts to retail partners for markdown recommendations. Review learns seasonal demand patterns specific to each retail location and product, reducing forecast error and excess stock.
Within 16 weeks, waste reduces from 8% to 2%, recovering 3.2% of gross margin. The combination of better forecasts and real-time inventory visibility removes the penalty for overstocking perishable items.
Our Review agent factors shelf life directly into forecast validation; it identifies aging stock and triggers clearance recommendations before spoilage.
Yes. Our agents learn promotional lift curves and seasonal patterns from trade promotion data, forecasting baseline and lifted demand accurately to avoid stock-outs and excess inventory.
We monitor OTIF performance in real time, flag at-risk shipments early, and adjust replenishment to avoid missed windows.
We flag aging inventory and recommend clearance actions; improved forecast accuracy reduces excess stock that drives waste.
Yes. We integrate DSD, retail EDI, and foodservice partners into a unified demand and inventory view across all channels.
Diagnostic insights arrive in week one; forecast accuracy improves 5-8pp within 8-10 weeks; full deployment stabilizes in 12-16 weeks.
Mid-market to large CPG companies with annual revenue $500M-$10B, 100+ SKUs, multi-channel distribution, and measurable pressure on forecast accuracy, OTIF, or inventory costs.
UK, Europe, and North America. Particular expertise in UK retail compliance and European supply chain complexity.
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Every engagement starts with a diagnostic. We identify where your biggest levers are: forecast accuracy, inventory turns, OTIF compliance, or waste reduction.
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