Success stories

3 percent profit increase

A global consumer products manufacturer used Kearney’s AI-powered portfolio planning solution to reduce its portfolio complexity. AI-driven planning allowed the company to advance past manual planning processes, reducing their scenario evaluation time from months to days, while bringing transparency to bottlenecks and fostering cross-functional alignment. The result was a 3 percent increase in profits.

7 percent products reduction

A large CPG company had a highly complex and costly production process that involved about 20 steps and highly specialized equipment. To reduce portfolio complexity, it used Kearney’s AI-powered portfolio planning solution to assess sourcing, manufacturing, fixed equipment assets, and transportation costs. With the help of AI, low volume/margin products were identified and 7 percent of the product portfolio was removed, generating cost savings of 17 percent.