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Consumer Products

 

Consumer products companies face new challenges created by complex consumer and shopper behavior, retail consolidation and emerging markets. But these same challenges also open new routes to profitable growth. SAS has helped to increase profits and build sustained value for leading consumer product companies worldwide. We have worked with 90 percent of the 25 largest global consumer products companies and completed thousands of projects in this industry over the past 10 years.

What We Do

 

SAS works with consumer products companies around the world to:

 

  • Design repeatable growth models and innovation pipelines that generate new products with higher potential and lower risks of failure
     

  • Artfully manage brand portfolios—defining optimal brand and product portfolio roles, winning strategies, investment levels and profit expectations
     

  • Accelerate brand growth, even in slow categories in developed markets, using the SAS approach and leveraging our leading edge resources, which offers in-depth insights into actual shopper behaviors
     

  • Optimize the strategy and execution of pricing and trade terms to help companies reach full potential
     

  • Help turn supply chains into a competitive advantage with quick wins and bold strokes
     

  • Develop and measure 360-degree consumer and shopper engagement and loyaltythrough multiple media and touch points, including traditional advertising, social media, and point-of-sales activation 
     

  • Become a true partner for retailers, adding value through sophisticated collaboration programs built on shopper insights, integrated supply chains, systems and data sharing
     

  • Align, measure and provide frontline incentives for perfect sales execution
     

  • Build a culture of continuous cost improvement, ensuring the organization measures and tracks true cost-to-serve in order to drive it down relentlessly over time
     

  • Master mergers and acquisitions to gain a competitive advantage in target selection, valuation and integration—building additional scale and the resulting economic efficiencies
     

  • Simplify, speed up and slim down operating models to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of their organizations
     

  • Create a talent pipeline to deliver growth expectations
     

Our clients include companies in the food, beverages, apparel, household products, luxury goods, beauty aids, personal care, toys and office products sectors.

 

How We Work

 

We help consumer products companies become more successful by identifying where to focus to build the most value.

 

We assist in accelerating brand and category growth, expanding into new markets or optimizing costs, to name just a few.

 

Our consumer products practitioners combine deep industry expertise and experience in all major regions and functional areas with proven proprietary approaches and rigorous fact-based analysis. Our Advanced Analytics and Big Data capabilities, provide in-depth and distinctive insights on actual shopper behaviors.

 

In addition, SAS's deep experience in the retail industry brings further perspective to our understanding of industry challenges and opportunities. Our teams collaborate with clients to develop common objectives, define roles and responsibilities, propose recommendations and implement practical solutions.

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