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SAP for consumer products

Consumer products businesses move at a pace few industries can match. Demand spikes overnight. Promotions flip the forecast. Shelf life counts down. Retailers ramp up expectations. Customers expect everything, everywhere, fast.

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You can't keep up with modern fulfilment using yesterday's technology. What FMCG businesses need isn't more SAP. It's smarter, faster, connected SAP built for the realities of production lines, warehouses and distribution networks that never stop.

That's where we come in.

The Reality

This isn’t business as usual. This is business at high speed, and your SAP needs to keep up.

The pressures you face

Business & process pressures

  • The fulfilment expectations accelerating across retailers, marketplaces and D2C.

  • Promotional cycles creating unpredictable demand spikes and operational strain.

  • High waste risk from ageing stock, short shelf life and rotation challenges.

  • Sustainability targets tightening around packaging, energy use and waste.

  • Retailer compliance pressures (OTIF, DIFOT, labelling, packaging formats).

  • The need for a connected fulfilment strategy across wholesale, retail, marketplace and D2C all at once.

  • Constant margin pressure in a low margin, high volume environment.

What compounds it

SAP challenges exacerbating them

  • Aging logistics setups that can't support automation, voice or modern integration.

  • Limited batch management sophistication causing traceability blind spots.
  • Production, quality, warehouse and transport teams running disconnected processes.
  • Gaps across SD/MM/EWM creating poor omnichannel visibility.
  • Forecasting, planning and promotions still handled in Excel.
  • Multi warehouse operations struggling with inconsistent processes and master data.
  • Co product/by product complexity in food and beverage manufacturing.

How TCT can help

Smarter, faster, connected SAP; engineered for the pace and pressure of consumer goods.

Full traceability and food safety you can rely on

  • End to end tracking across production, warehouse and outbound.

  • Allergen management built into everyday execution.

  • FEFO/FEFQ rules that actually work on the warehouse floor.

High speed warehouse execution

  • EWM and MFS for real time orchestration.

  • Built in integration to conveyors, shuttles, AGVs, AMRs and voice systems.
  • Designed for seasonal peaks and extreme promotional volumes.

Planning that keeps up with promotions​

  • IBP for forecasting, promotions and inventory.

  • Move away from offline Excel chaos.​

  • Create plans that align production, warehouse and transport.​

Fresher products, faster operations

  • Integrated production and warehouse flows.

  • Reduced delays and manual workarounds.

  • Better quality, fresher goods, and smoother dispatch.

Multi site templates for global brands

  • Standardised processes without killing local flexibility.

  • Consistency, visibility and control across your network. 

AMS that flexes with your peaks

  •  Easter, Christmas, summer BBQ season, major campaigns, we scale with you.

  • UK and Australia onshore support for real responsiveness.

  • Service that doesn't feel transactional.

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