A purchasing cooperative for a global  food chain

Industry

Food and
beverage

Users

Demand planning, procurement, category management

Scope

75 DCs, demand only

The Challenge

75 DCs feeding restaurants that expect full deliveries on schedule.

Scale beyond manual reach - so forecasting ran at a high level, not at the granularity decisions needed.

Only the top items got real attention. The rest were managed by buffer and judgement.

Highly sensitive to point-of-sale movement and promotions, both of which move fast.

A control tower under construction, but no demand view to purchase against.

What Hexight Did

Demand module sits on top of the existing stack — nothing replaced.

More than 14,000 products forecasted weekly across 75 DCs, autonomously.

A volume beyond what any team could review item by item.

Tactically: better allocation of product across the DCs.

Strategically: commodity hedging on a demand view they can rely on.

Results

10% → 3%

Forecast error, best products

“I was told our products are un-forecastable. This is a new way of looking at things - it’s too good to be true.”

— VP Supply Chain

Where to start?

POC on your own data.
See results in days.