Application of Decision Sciences

to Solve Business Problems

CPG Industry
Analytics
for CPG
New Product
Launches &
Innovation
Need Gap Analysis

It is an approach to identify the unmet needs of consumers, in which respondents are asked to envisage the
ideal brand or product, and then to rate various existing brands or products on key attributes. If there are no
existing brands measuring up to the ideal, there exists a need gap which could be a potential for a new
product.

It provides answers to critical business questions like:
What is the consumers perception of the brand/product?
What are the consumer needs yet to be catered to and are there competitors providing alternatives?
Identify new consumer segments and market potential for a new product.
What is the brand image in the consumers mind? If needed, how is it to be re-branded and re-positioned?
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Product & Concept Testing
PI Believability Uniqueness Value
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Natural ingredients IND DEL IND DEL
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DEL = Delight
IND = Indifferent
TRNF = Turnoff
MNB = Must not be
MB = Must be
HYG = Hygiene
New Product
Launches &
Innovation
Product & Concept Testing

Estimate the market potential of an idea or a concept, before actually developing the product based on
consumer response on multiple metrics like: uniqueness, believability, feasibility, price, desirability,
advantages, disadvantages, etc.
Only successful concepts pass to the next phase, thereby minimizing R&D and marketing costs.

Apart from estimating the market potential, it also helps:
Identify critical success factors for a new product/service
Estimate price sensitivity and purchase likelihood
Bundle product/service features
Identify potential consumer segments and assess competition
Understand the purchase process and decision making
Optimize advertising messages and improve promotional offers

Statistical techniques (like Conjoint analysis, Discrete choice modeling, KANO analysis) are applied on the
consumer responses collected.
Supply Chain


SKU rationalization exercise is usually
supplemented with an impact study to
answer questions like:
What is the revenue impact associated
and how can it be minimized?
What is the inventory carrying impact
and overall savings?
Will it result in consumer dissatisfaction?
What is the consumer reactivation rate
on rationalized SKUs?
Is the product seasonal? What is the time
frame to rationalize the category?
What are the substitute products that
the consumer can be offered?
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SKU Rationalization

The objective of SKU rationalization is to reduce the business complexities arising from a burgeoning product
portfolio, from managing too many items, product life cycles, consumer preferences, etc., while ensuring
consumer satisfaction. It is the process of re-looking at the product portfolio and optimizing it.

It starts with the parameters that form the basisidentifying and retaining high margin SKUs, high volume
SKUs, SKUs that have a higher shelf life and those which are in tune with consumer preferences.

After analyzing the cost drivers for each SKU, the portfolio can be assorted and rejected products can be re-
evaluated for further action (merge, sell, milk or kill).


Pricing: Competitive pricing
(comparable to other vendors),
stability (low variance), accuracy,
advance notice of price changes.

Quality: Compliance with purchase
order, conformity to specifications,
reliability (rate of product failures),
durability, support, warranty.

Delivery: Time, quantity, lead time,
packaging, emergency delivery and
technical support.
Partner Strategic Fit Brand Equity Financial Health
Ability to
operationalize
Final Score Status
Vendor 1 9 8 10 7.4 8.75 Pass
Vendor 3 10 9 8 7.4 9.00 Pass
Vendor 3 10 7 6 7.4 7.50 Pass
Vendor 4 10 10 8 10.0 9.50 Underleveraged
Vendor 5 9 7 8 7.4 7.75 Pass
Vendor 6 2 7 6 8.2 5.50 Risky
Partner Filtration Methodology & Process Flow
Supply Chain
Vendor Management

It enables organizations to control costs, strive towards service excellence and mitigate risks to gain increased
value from their vendor by:

Minimizing potential business disruption
Avoiding deal and delivery failure
Improving operational efficiencies, controlling costs and planning of workforce and labor

It includes vendor identification, recruitment, monitoring, tracking and evaluating vendors on certain KPIs:


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Establish control need based on
three secondary factors,
develop appropriate
contracting relationship type
and negotiate contract
Supply Chain
Sourcing Strategy & Production Planning

Strategic sourcing continuously improves and re-evaluates the purchasing activities of a company. Sourcing
optimization helps evaluate different procurement inputs by considering supply market, specific supply chain
conditions, individual supplier conditions and offers alternatives to address the buyers sourcing goals.

It helps in:
Assessing the supply market, the companys spending and identifying suitable suppliers
Optimizing production related sourcing decisions, concerning where to produce or source products,
based on a total supply chain cost analysis
Selecting a suitable manufacturing site, optimal capacity utilization of plants and product allocation
among the different plants and distribution centers
Strategic planning for manufacturing and inventory optimization
Increasing manufacturing and distribution asset utilization


Project Area Identified Savings (to date)
Transportation 16%
Warehouse 12%
Supply Chain 3%
Total 15%
Supply Chain
Network Optimization

Network optimization helps in designing the optimal supply chain network with the lowest total cost
structure, given operational constraints. It uses statistical modeling to describe the transport network to be
followed. It helps senior management in making the most efficient use of resources while identifying the
most economical routes.

It aids in:
Reducing transportation overheads and ensuring that the right product reaches the right location on
time
Improving transportation mode selection, load consolidation and resource utilization
Quantifying operational, financial costs of alternative networks and identifying scopes of improvement
Ensuring reduced freight costs and increased operating efficiency
Streamlining warehouse activities, thereby reducing time to dispatch and optimizing productivity levels
Lead time : It is the time lag between
when the order is placed and the point at
which the stocks are available; A lead
time of 4 days implies that there should
always be stock for 4 days supply to avoid
stock-out scenario
Safety stock is the buffer quantity to
cover any unplanned excess requirement
taking into account delivery delays
Reorder point is the minimum level of
stock at which procurement should be
triggered and quantity of warehouse
stock should never go below this point
If the quantity of warehouse stock is less
than re-order point, there is shortfall
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Lot size
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Supply Chain
Inventory Management

Optimal inventory management is an indispensable function to ensure un-interrupted product supply to
meet the changing demand. Stock out analysis helps in:
Optimizing inventory and service levels by streamlining ordering processes
Minimizing stock outstock out can lead to loss of sales
Handling overstockoverstock leads to increased inventory costs and costs to liquidate excess inventory
Maximizing warehouse space utilization

Lead time is the time lag between when the order is placed, and the point at which stocks are available. The
buffer quantity to cover any unplanned excess requirement, taking into account delivery delays, is referred to
as safety stock. Providing for safety stock on top of lead time demand, will give the re-order point, which is
the minimal level of stock at which procurement should be triggered. Warehouse stock should never go
below the re-order point. Re-order point will assist in deciding what would be the best optimal order
quantity and when to place an order.
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Sales & Channel
Planning
Sales Tracker

Constant monitoring and tracking provides the sales team with accurate information related to market
dynamics, so that they can have an action plan before the next sales cycle starts. Also, it serves as the base
for formulating sales strategies. It:

Identifies which products and SKUs are selling the most
Analyses market trends and geographic buying patterns
Evaluates growth potential for product portfolio (products, regions, markets)
Identifies the epicenter for market share loss Root-cause analysis

Interactive visual dashboards on market performance across geographies provide further assistance vs.
analyzing large volumes of data.
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Dam, 8.2
Delhi, 269.3
Goa, 187.7
Har, 76.2
Kar, 83.4
Ker, 75.7
Mah, 41.9
Mum, 76.5
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Competitor Analysis

Monitoring the performance of the brand versus key competitors on a continuous basis assists in:

Detailed understanding of competitors portfolio, marketing and sales strategies
Studying competitors response to any new strategy in place
Evaluating the expansion and growth strategy of competitor brands across markets

Based on competitor assessment and their impact on brands share, the micro and macro level strategies are
outlined.

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Sales Forecasting

A good demand forecast helps improve sales volume, cash flow and hence the profitability, by optimizing
inventory and by minimizing out-of-stock. Besides considering historical data, external factors like promotion,
seasonality, price changes, macro-economic conditions are also considered for more accurate forecasts. It
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Inventory Control: Optimizing inventory & service levels by streamlining ordering processes
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inventory that must be liquidated at or below cost, which is a cash flow drain
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Optimum price corridor
Identify optimum price corridor
Sales & Channel
Planning
Pricing Analysis

Pricing strategies are crafted to meet two key objectives: profit and revenue maximization. It helps in
identifying the best pricing strategy in a dynamic market, in response to the competitive scenario, by:

Evaluating the brands own price elasticity and competitor brands cross price elasticity
Identifying price gaps/thresholds which can result in significant share changes for the brand
Identifying the right price gap/threshold with respect to the key competitors
Simulator for effective allocation of trade spends
Sales & Channel
Planning
Promotional Effectiveness

Promotions provide great value for brand through both incremental sales and increased brand awareness. It
is a technique of evaluating the extent of success of an activity using past data, by correlating the sales data
and marketing efforts. Main objective is to assess the impact and effectiveness of promotions.

Trade promotion optimization (TPO) utilizes advanced econometric modeling techniques to help brands
refine their promotion strategies, identify the right price and discount point that maximized sales lift and ROI,
and eventually help manufacturers enlarge their consumer basket and have a sustained impact on baseline
sales.

TPO helps companies:
Allocate more for promotion sensitive brands and SKUs
Collaborate with retailers and restructure their trade programs
Design unique programs specific to a retailer/channel instead of following a one-size fits all approach
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Sales & Channel
Planning
Real-time evaluation of promotions

Marketelligent has developed an in-house proprietary tool called PRISM, for continuous monitoring and
evaluation of trade and marketing promotions on a real time basis, using the test-control approach.

Identifying the control samples for each of the test group takes most of the time/effort. PRISM minimizes
the time required for the same and identifies the control samples on a real time basis, based on historical
sales trends and outlet demographics.

PRISM uses sales in test and control outlets, to calculate the lift factor for each or combinations of trade
marketing programs. Based on the lift factor, incremental sales and ROI are calculated for each activity. The
effectiveness of promotions can be compared at different levels channels, categories, brands and markets.

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Marketing budgets as a percentage of sales typically vary between 4-10% for a CPG company. Given the high
investment, marketers would like to evaluate the returns from each media vehicle and optimize their
investments.
Market Mix Modeling (MMM) helps brand managers identify the right mix of advertising media, manage
channels and allocate marketing spend in a manner that not only provides the required sales lift but also
maximizes the returns on investment by media vehicles.

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Cannibalization, if any, amongst the portfolio of brands
Impact of competition media activity
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Market
Performance
Driver Analysis

Every organization needs to understand which product/service attributes have the greatest influence on the
consumers purchase decision. For instance, consumers might rate a personal care product based on its color,
scent, functionality, price, discount offer and so on. Driver analysis is a technique widely used to identify the
key consumer needs which translates to purchase behavior. It provides answers to critical questions like:

What accounts for consumers proclivity to purchase the product?
What causes consumers to switch to competitor brands?
What is the core consumer segment that should be focused on?

Statistical techniques (Correlation, Multivariate Regression, and Structural Equation Modeling) are utilized to
identify the critical success factors of a brand which drives sales or revenue.

Identify growth opportunities for niche
consumer segments
Define the portfolio strategy for their
category by ensuring minimal consumer
segment overlap across brands

Based on the above, the marketing team
modifies their product/service offering and
deploys the desired positioning and
marketing communication to reach their
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Consumer Segmentation

Segmentation identifies homogenous consumer groups based on their needs, preferences, attitudes,
demographics, lifestyle measures (activities, interests, opinions and values) and behavior.

A mass marketing approach treats the market as a whole, while segmentation enables the business to target
different consumer groups by adapting its product and marketing mix to suit each targeted segment.
Segmentation results are leveraged to:

Understand how the market is evolving in terms of changing consumer needs/preferences
Identify the benefits sought by each consumer segment
Improve the competitive position by focusing on the most profitable and sizeable segment
Assessing brand value helps in:

Identifying optimal measures to build
strong brand equity
Demonstrating the effect of strong
brand equity in terms of market share,
consumer acquisition, brand loyalty and
other desirable outcomes
Mapping the brand's equity against that
of key competitors

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Brand Equity Tracker

Brand equity tracker provides a framework for measuring the brands performance/health. This can be
assessed through consumer perception, which includes both rational and emotional aspects. Main criteria
for assessment brand differentiation, brand relevance, the consumers knowledge of the brand and brand
image in the consumers mind.

Brand equity tracker defines the gap between what a brand wants to be and how a brand is actually
perceived by consumers, thereby giving a direction for branding strategy. Different components of brand
equity are depicted in the image.

Business Situation:
Clients 70% to 80% of daily beverage production depends on empty bottle returns from previous day. As such, a highly accurate forecast
for daily bottle returns across all SKUs was required for optimal production planning.

The Task:
Design, develop and implement a predictive model that will help in forecasting daily empty bottle returns for 10 different SKUs.

Analytical Framework:
Data preparation for model building. Past sales data or production data didn't have much effect on the returns data and thus past 2 years
return data was used for the model building. Different models like ARIMA, Holt Winters, Year on Year growth model were built to forecast the
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The Result:
For all the SKUs considered, an accuracy of 75% was achieved for May-June 2011. This was significantly better than existing forecasts.
For the SKU which contributed to 47% of the total returns, an accuracy of 92% was achieved for May-June 2011. The monthly accuracy for
May2011 being 85% and June 2011 being 97%.


Analytics in Action
Towards Better Production Planning by Accurate Forecasting
Client: A Leading Carbonated Beverage Manufacturer
Defining
Modelling
universe
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development
Validation
Past 2 years empty bottle returns data was
considered. The data was too volatile to fit
into the model and thus Centralized
Moving Averages was calculated to
smoothen the data and to get a better
model fit.
ARIMA model was built on Centralised
moving averages , Holt winters and Year on
Year growth rate models was built on
empty bottle returns. Bootstrapping
method was applied to choose best
forecast value.
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against actuals. Accuracy was calculated at
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Business Situation:
The client, a leading hair care manufacturer wanted to identify drivers of brand preference for the category which would aid them in designing
the right marketing strategy & related collateral for strengthening market share for their existing brand.

Analytical Framework:
Design a Structural Equation Model (SEM) to identify key equity themes & their hierarchy in terms of importance in driving purchase for the
category, and identify the best pathway to improve the brands equity in consumers mind.
























The Result:
The following recommendations were made and implemented by the business:
Leverage Brands strength on the health dimension this goes in line with brands equity pyramid
Ingredient is one of the key category drivers on which the brand is performing very well strengthen communication strategy to
capture this
Even though health benefit is key, consumers eventually desire the beauty aspect Redesign communication strategy to convey this
as the end benefit
Currently beauty dimension is weak build credibility on that with consistent communication
Analytics in Action
Re-design Product Communication Strategies in line with Consumer
Preferences
Client: Leading Hair Care Manufacturer
Marketing strategy on the core Health benefit & its eventual impact on making oneself attractive is the Key
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Business Situation:
Leading manufacturer in anti-aging cream category. Brand X occupies a dominant position in market; recently also introduced Brand Y.
Brand X Volumes are down 6.5% vs. last year.
Spending across Media has shifted from being TV-centric in 2007 to Dailies-centric in 2008.
Manufacturer would like to understand the effectiveness and efficiency of his Media Spend; and to find optimal ways to reallocate media
spend across channels so as to maintain Sales

The Task:
Need to develop an optimal media investment strategy based on Media Mix Modeling to improve the brand equity of the client :
Establish key relationships between Sales and Marketing driver inputs.
Quantify impact of each marketing driver on sales.
Optimize allocation spends across various drivers to maximize sales.














The Result:
The model gave clear directions for allocating budgets across various media :
For every $ spend, Magazine gives 6 times the return of TV and dailies.
Magazines seems to be operating above threshold and below saturation levels.
Lower returns on TV could be due to operating levels below threshold in certain bursts, and low SOVs compared to Brand Z.
TV has a bigger role of driving the brand health.
Recommendations used to optimize marketing spends across channels to maximize Sales.
Analytics in Action
Increasing ROI by Optimizing Media Spends
Client: A Leading Beauty Products Manufacturer
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Business Situation :
Over-the-Counter (OTC) market is a growing industry; consumers today are much more inclined to self-diagnosis and self-medication as they
prefer to have a greater role in their health affairs. And brand shares are impacted because of multiple influencers like FDA regulations,
mergers and acquisitions, patent expiry, Rx to OTC switch, entry of generics, etc.

The Task :
In this dynamically changing OTC market; there is a need to track OTC industry movement by category and evaluate market share changes
across key geographies /countries . This will enable a business to focus its marketing efforts on areas with the greatest return on investment.

Analysis :
Collated historic (2005-2010) as well as forecasted sales (2011-2015) information.
Accounted for all industry mergers & acquisitions at company X brand X country level
Evaluated category and brand performance at each of the levels defined below:

























The Result :
Insights from this analysis helped identify the focus markets and brands by each category. Based on this the client drafted their annual
strategic plan
Analytics in Action
Tracking Market Development in the OTC industry
Client : A Leading Global Manufacturer of Over-the-counter Drugs
Category
1. Cough & Cold
2. Analgesics
3. Vitamins & Minerals
4. Digestive Healthetc.
Geography
1. APAC
2. LA
3. NA
4. WE & EEetc.
Country
1. USA
2. Canada
3. Brazil
4. Chinaetc.
Company
1. J&J
2. GSK
3. Merck
4. Reckitt Benckiseretc.
Brands
(as an example brands
within Analgesics)
1. Tylenol
2. Aspirin
3. Adviletc.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
GLOBAL EXPERIENCE.
PROVEN RESULTS.
Roy K. Cherian
CEO
Roy has over 20 years of rich experience in marketing, advertising and media
in organizations like Nestle India, United Breweries, FCB and Feedback
Ventures. He holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
Anunay Gupta, PhD
COO & Head of Analytics
Anunay has over 15 years of experience, with a significant portion focused
on Analytics in Consumer Finance. In his last assignment at Citigroup, he was
responsible for all Decision Management functions for the US Cards
portfolio of Citigroup, covering approx $150B in assets. Anunay holds an
MBA in Finance from NYU Stern School of Business.
Kakul Paul
Business Head, CPG & Retail
Kakul has over 8 years of experience within the CPG industry. She was
previously part of the Analytics practice as WNS, leading analytic initiatives
for top Fortune 50 clients globally. She has extensive experience in what
drives Consumer purchase behavior, market mix modeling, pricing &
promotion analytics, etc. Kakul has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
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