How a Global CPG Automates Supply Chain Demand Forecasting with Agentic AI Alex Clay Apr 14, 2026

How a Global CPG Automates Supply Chain Demand Forecasting with Agentic AI Discover how CPG supply chains use agentic AI to automate demand forecasting, boosting accuracy and speed while cutting manual effort. Excel-Built Forecasts Stall Supply Chains In a leading global beverage company, weekly demand forecasting felt like a spreadsheet battlefield. Demand planners stitched data from SAP, Databricks, and scattered Excel files. The manual cycle was slow, clunky, and error-prone. Forecast accuracy hovered around 70%. A 30% SKU-level error causes costly stockouts or bloated inventory. This problem spans the industry,CPG forecasting errors cost billions, erode margins, and hurt customer satisfaction. Why Manual Forecasting Fails Supply Chains This multinational brewer, with dozens of brands, struggled with Excel and siloed data. The fractured picture stifled supply chain agility. Forecasting was guesswork masked as science, with 25-35% errors annually. Global inventory distortion costs…