Meet demand and exceed expectations.
Consumer
Today’s consumer businesses are upping their CX game while mitigating risk and accelerating processes with supply chain network digitalization and optimization, demand sensing, real-time collaboration, cloud adoption, cognitive automation, mobile enablement, and other technologies.
Challenges
Key Challenges Reported by Consumer Business Leaders
92
Unreliable Data
87
Lack Visibility
30
Unexpected Delays
20
Lost Inventory
15
Compliance Issues
Solutions
Power the future of your intelligent enterprise and create unmatched business value with our transformative industry solutions.
Minimize risk, increase agility, enhance customer experience and reduce costs by leveraging digital systems, collaboration and automation, analytics and insights, and cognitive decision-making.
Create faster and smarter design-to-production processes, accelerate time to market, and extend asset life with manufacturing insights, connected assets, intelligent automation and digital quality.
Boost productivity and service levels by integrating disparate systems and data sources and rolling out AI-powered self-learning planning processes that improve forecasting and automate decision-making.
Deliver procurement value using a consulting-driven approach to enable process automation, strategic sourcing, spend optimization, supplier diversification, real-time collaboration and contract governance.
Realize incredible business value by transitioning to a truly digital enterprise – built on a modern cloud infrastructure, with an intelligent data and analytics strategy, that delivers a great customer experience.
Benefits
Our Consumer Solutions Drive Measurable Business Value
90
Decrease in Manual Logistics Tracking
30
Increase in Asset Utilization
29
Fewer Stockouts
10
Faster Inventory Turns
5
Improvement in Service Levels
Services
Thrive on change with our specialized digital transformation services spanning strategy, design and build, and implementation.
- Digital Consulting
- Analytics & AI
- Integration & Automation
- Modern Engineering
- SAP Solutions
- Platform Solutions
Accelerate your transformation by leveraging our assessment and advisory services, proven methodologies, proprietary accelerators and enablers, and change management expertise.
Put your data to work by tapping into our AI-powered analytics capabilities to unlock valuable insights, enhance visibility and enable smart data-driven decision-making.
Realize the incredible power of a connected enterprise by integrating and automating your systems, platforms, devices, sensors, apps, data, networks and cloud technologies.
Build and modernize your application and data landscape by engaging our proven expertise and enablers to enhance CX, transition to the cloud, and leverage data lake solutions.
Transform and modernize your SAP-powered intelligent enterprise. As a preferred SAP partner, we can position you for success with SAP S/4HANA, IBP, Ariba and Analytics.
Implement and integrate proven technology platforms into your digital framework to elevate your ERP environment and boost your operational agility, visibility and performance.
Testimonials
“Bristlecone brings decades of supply chain experience from around the globe. Their team, always highly committed and service-oriented, supports both our project plan and our business case.”
Suzanne Wagner
Project Leader, Swarovski
“With Bristlecone, we’ve professionalized the support of one of our core SAP platforms, and we’ve partnered on what we would call enhancement projects. They’re also the right partner for us as we contemplate new capabilities that we want to add.”
Michael Murray
COO, Ferrara Candy
Accelerators
Through our proprietary, customized accelerators, we empower enterprises to leverage cutting-edge technologies to accelerate solution deployment, increase user adoption and maximize business value.
Industry-specific SAP-qualified partner-packaged solution for SAP S/4HANA accelerates new deployments and conversions.
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Fixed price, fixed scope.
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Proven framework.
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Best practice templates.
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Industry-specific process maps.
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Customized training materials.
Real-time customer order tracking and condition monitoring using an IoT-enabled tracking solution.
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Leading indicators for ETA/EQA for multi-carrier tracking.
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Automation with ERP and TMS.
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Timely alerts on delays, missing assets, counts and performance.
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Location/movement visibility.
Insights & Resources
Explore these resources to learn more about our work with consumer businesses.

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Battery Manufacturer Improves Forecast Accuracy by 15% with Supply Chain Planning Solution
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Ensure High OTIF Delivery with Smart Order Optimizer
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Accelerate Quality Control with AI-Powered Computer Vision
Computer vision solutions accelerate the quality control process, while also improving accuracy and reliability by reducing human intervention.

Designing Future-Proof Conversational Data Lakes
Generative AI, Large Language Models and Intelligent Agents have the power to create a self-aware data lake that facilitates interactive data dialogues.