Case Study: American multinational food manufacturing company improves forecast accuracy and reduces inventory loss with TekLink

Leveraging Data Science to Increase Forecast Accuracy against Inventory Loss

TekLink worked with an American multinational food manufacturing company that has operated in food processing for more than 100 years. The company needed a data-driven way to improve visibility into product availability across business units, better manage inventory to reduce losses, and combine data from multiple sources for stronger analysis and insight generation.

TekLink implemented a solution using SAS Enterprise Guide, Microsoft SQL Server, and Tableau Desktop, with dashboards built in Tableau to track inventory performance and risk metrics. TekLink also processed data from SAP, SQL Server, and SharePoint into a comprehensive file and enabled customized weekly reporting for business units. The resulting metrics helped the company identify high-risk inventory buildup driven by forecasting, shipping, planning, and revenue slippage issues, supporting better planning and write-off decisions.