Consumer Packaged Goods
Xterprise Knows Consumer Goods
Xterprise RFID Analytics uses RFID data to deliver enhanced visibility into the supply chain, helping consumer product good (CPG) companies get business value from their RFID investment. Sixty percent of the Wal-Mart 100 including PepsiCo, and Unilever, are Xterprise customers, as are over a quarter of the first 100 adopters.
CPG companies need to know if they are on the right path to ROI. They want answers to questions
such as:
- Are we tagging the right products?
- How do our products behave once they reach the stores? How well do our products flow through the retailer’s distribution center and how long do they stay there? Do they follow FIFO? Are there shipping strategies we can use to reduce product dwell time?
- Are we seeing the tagged products at the retailer? If so, what percentage of the products are being seen critical read points, such as the sales floor transition doors or the crushers?
- Are there existing operational processes, such as the order-to-cash improvement initiatives, that can benefit from the use of RFID data?
To answer these questions, and many more, Xterprise has developed a suite of solutions addressing both retailer mandated and self-driven RFID operational improvement opportunities. The Clarity suite of applications for CPG includes:
- Source Tagging
- Promotions Execution and Retail Performance Analytics
- Reusable Transport Item Optimization
- Automated Goods Receipt
- Work in process control and inventory management
Xterprise customers in the consumer goods sector include General Mills, Quaker Oats, Imperial Sugar, QTG, ExxonMobil, L’Oreal USA, Dial, Diary Fresh, Tropicana, The Lebman Company and many others.