Case Study: Major Consumer Packaged Goods Company achieves >90% analytic efficiency boost and millions in savings with FICO Xpress Optimization

How optimization helped one company boost analytic efficiency by more than 90% and save millions

A global consumer packaged goods company known for a strong portfolio of trusted brands faced a persistent industry challenge: complex, resource-intensive product transitions that caused waste, delayed time-to-shelf, and required extensive manual data work. The company needed an algorithmic solution that could minimize costs, meet service goals, and synchronize decisions across all downstream planning systems at scale.

Using FICO Xpress Optimization (co-developed and deployed with FICO), the company automated planning, eliminated manual ETL, and enabled fast scenario analysis. The result was millions of dollars saved, a >90% boost in supply-chain analytic efficiency, weekly analyses cut from hours to under five minutes, full downstream synchronization, improved on-shelf availability, and adoption across more than half its product portfolio.