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.

Telematics Technology Comes to Life in Supply Chain Replica
We use this interactive supply chain replica to demonstrate the intersection of IoT and supply chain with real-time goods tracking and condition monitoring.

10 ESG Data Challenges – and How to Manage Them
Explore the challenges companies face when acquiring data for ESG initiatives as well as solutions and best practices for overcoming these data challenges.

Climate75 – Reduce Impact and Achieve Compliance
Climate75 is a comprehensive emissions management solution that enables you to measure, monitor, manage and report on your environmental compliance data.

Food Ingredients Producer Improves Diversity Spend Visibility by 3X
Spend transformation helped this food ingredients producer rationalize and reduce its supplier base and provide visibility into its supplier diversity spend.

Food Manufacturer Improves Planning Lead Time by 50% and Forecast Accuracy by 13%
Significant improvements in forecast accuracy are increasing on-time delivery rates, enabling resource optimization and boosting customer satisfaction.

Retailer Improves SAP System Performance by 3X and Reduces its Database Size by 75%
A virtual redesign of the SAP landscape and code change and remediation of programs enabled faster performance on a significantly reduced database size.

Global Household Products Manufacturer Improves User Experience and ROI
Change management-enabled shift in culture boosted user adoption, improved UX and delivered rapid ROI on the customer’s new procurement solution.

Global Home Appliance Manufacturer Defines Best-in-Class Last-Mile Operations
Comprehensive assessment identified process, technology and integration gaps that hampered end-to-end operational efficiency and last-mile visibility.

Demystifying Point of Sale Analytics
This white paper explores POS data and how it can be leveraged to extract key business insights that can increase revenue and boost customer loyalty.