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11 Sep 2019, 09:25 GMT+10
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India] Sept 11 (ANI/NewsVoir): Automation, digitisation and advanced analytics are changing the business landscape in India.
While most business sectors are already on the maturity curve in the adoption of digitisation and automation tech, CPG and FMCG in India are the Johnny-come-lately sectors. Part of the reason has been the disbelief that technology can work in highly fragmented and traditional trade dominated markets like India.
Unsurprisingly, change has already come to India's retail ecosystem. FMCG start-ups are using innovative business processes and newfangled retail intelligence platforms to make a dent in the market share of FMCG leaders.
For instance, young companies like iD Fresh, are organised like technology companies and are leveraging analytics to ensure freshness of their products, reduce returns and carve a brand identity that's the envy of market leaders.
More and more FMCG brands realise that the only way around the new competition is to bring more visibility to their channels and product performance. They increasingly depend on retail intelligence platforms to aggregate and analyse data on consumer trends, behaviour, insights, preferences, and market trends.
Bizom, a leading retail intelligence platform and flagship product of Mobisy Technologies, quotes the example of its customer - a chocolate confectionery brand which is one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world.
"The confectionery brand wanted to increase the depth of distribution in India by selling more in each store rather than be present everywhere. They wanted to identify the right channels and outlets for their products. With Bizom's retail intelligence platform, the brand was able to gain access to data on their current outlets - where they were selling, what they were selling, and how much they were selling", said Lalit Bhise, CEO and Founder of Mobisy Technologies.
Indian companies like Parle Agro are using technology to drive high levels of efficiency in their sales team to drive greater reach and availability.
Similarly, companies like Jyothy Laboratories use advanced analytics to expedite the movement of stocks from the warehouse to the consumer. By doing so, the company has reduced stock in trade and improved profitability.
The use of tech in these consumer companies has moved beyond digitisation into areas of creating a significant competitive advantage. Take the example of BauschLomb, a leading global eye health products brand, which has over 20,000 Stock Keeping Units (SKUs).
They have used tech to reduce the delivery time for lenses by almost 80 per cent, thereby gaining a significant advantage and retailer preference for their brand.
Also, a leading global ice cream brand has reduced stock-outs by using fixed cameras and image recognition technology to understand stock levels. The brand is also using prediction models to determine refill periods for their ice-cream fridges.
The key to all such successes is not to be overawed with the complexity of technology. Organisations should be able to define clearly end outcomes and then make technology work for them.
Many CPG and FMCG organisations are striving to ensure that they gain market-share through technology in these days of lower consumption. It becomes the ammunition to win big when consumption picks up. It's what separates the professionals from the amateurs.
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