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Case studies
Work that moved the numbers.
Client work across consumer goods, baby and juvenile, retail, manufacturing, and chemicals and base ingredients. Filter by sector, or by the core technology behind it.
In-market proof
Results as reported by our clients.
Chemicals and base ingredients
€800m+size of prize identified, by 2028
Data and analytics
Unifying sales and marketing data to drive commercial growth
Digital adoption had stalled at 2% of customers. Cleaned data, cohort and lookalike modelling and a Value Realisation Office replaced belief with evidence.
€109m
annual savings realised
94%
of the prize was off the roadmap
Baby and juvenileConsumer goods
20+markets live, Gartner award-winning
Cloud and platforms
Turning product traceability into a direct line to the consumer
One on-pack code proves provenance from field to home, and doubles as a loyalty channel that feeds sales, pricing and forecasting.
+100%
traceability adoption on core ranges
+40%
of buyers scanning, every 8 days
Chemicals and base ingredients
3.5 mofrom planning to production
AI and agents
Turning a vast document estate into trusted, governed answers
Finding an answer meant guessing where a file lived. Now source-linked answers come back through one interface, with governance designed in before scale.
400–500
employees using it
0
new P1 incidents in steady state
Manufacturing
1.5 FTEa week spent on manual shift planning, before
Machine learning
Optimising 24/7 workforce planning without losing the planner’s judgement
A solver owns scheduling and compliance across nine production lines. AI explains each plan and explores what-ifs; the planner approves every go-live.
2 of 8
departments live in daily use
40–60%
targeted cut in effort, not yet measured
Consumer goods
~90%of analyst time lost to data preparation, at the start
Machine learning
Rebuilding demand forecasting on a predictive core, mid-migration
Two planning systems combined into one trusted view of accuracy and bias, with machine-learning models moving into production and self-service.
4
pillars on one data foundation
2026
ML models into production, current phase
Baby and juvenileConsumer goods
+40%uplift among engaged customers, as reported
Machine learning
From broadcast to the next-best-action, per customer and life stage
A heritage infant-nutrition brand moved from one message for everyone to next-best-action automation across roughly 40% of its customer base, built on first-party data.
54%
of loyalty members are new first-party data
35%
stage-to-stage conversion, against a 15% target
Baby and juvenile
5×market share growth for a new product launch
Digital experience and commerce
From guesswork at launch to a repeatable conversion playbook
Every funnel element was tested and optimised weekly instead of betting on an upfront plan, with KPIs set for rollout across Japan, EMEA and North America.
10%
of total spend used for optimisation
4 + 4 wks
planning to optimised operation
Retail
400+ → 89ideas triaged to costed, governed cases
AI and agents
From scattered AI tests to a governed, costed pipeline
A global home-furnishings retailer surfaced ideas from the people closest to the work, then ranked and routed each one: build, reuse, refer or park.
90+
use cases live across 8 markets in 2 months
85 of 89
cases already solved or owned: reuse over rebuild
Consumer goods
Globaltechnology backbone, redesigned to fit every market
Cloud and platforms
A technology backbone that smaller markets can afford to use
A central platform choice had priced smaller country teams out of using it. We took over the rollout and redesigned the model so cost scales with the team, not against it.
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Standing up a Databricks lakehouse as the single data foundation
Fragmented warehouses and extracts consolidated into one governed lakehouse, with the catalogue, lineage and access model agreed before the first workload moved.
Consumer goods
Data and analytics
Moving model training and serving onto the lakehouse
Models that ran on analyst laptops rebuilt as managed pipelines on Databricks, with versioned features, scheduled retraining and serving the business can depend on.
Chemicals and base ingredients
Machine learning
Unifying sales and marketing data to drive commercial growth
Digital adoption had stalled at 2% of customers. Cleaned data, cohort and lookalike modelling and a Value Realisation Office replaced belief with evidence.
Chemicals and base ingredients
Data and analytics
Turning product traceability into a direct line to the consumer
One on-pack code proves provenance from field to home, and doubles as a loyalty channel that feeds sales, pricing and forecasting.
Baby and juvenile · Consumer goods
Cloud and platforms
Turning a vast document estate into trusted, governed answers
Finding an answer meant guessing where a file lived. Now source-linked answers come back through one interface, with governance designed in before scale.
Chemicals and base ingredients
AI and agents
Optimising 24/7 workforce planning without losing the planner’s judgement
A solver owns scheduling and compliance across nine production lines. AI explains each plan and explores what-ifs; the planner approves every go-live.
Manufacturing
Machine learning
Rebuilding demand forecasting on a predictive core, mid-migration
Two planning systems combined into one trusted view of accuracy and bias, with machine-learning models moving into production and self-service.
Consumer goods
Machine learning
From broadcast to the next-best-action, per customer and life stage
A heritage infant-nutrition brand moved from one message for everyone to next-best-action automation across roughly 40% of its customer base, built on first-party data.
Baby and juvenile · Consumer goods
Machine learning
From guesswork at launch to a repeatable conversion playbook
Every funnel element was tested and optimised weekly instead of betting on an upfront plan, with KPIs set for rollout across Japan, EMEA and North America.
Baby and juvenile
Digital experience and commerce
From scattered AI tests to a governed, costed pipeline
A global home-furnishings retailer surfaced ideas from the people closest to the work, then ranked and routed each one: build, reuse, refer or park.
Retail
AI and agents
A technology backbone that smaller markets can afford to use
A central platform choice had priced smaller country teams out of using it. We took over the rollout and redesigned the model so cost scales with the team, not against it.
Consumer goods
Cloud and platforms
Unlocking insight: transforming documents with AI and RAG
AI-powered transformation of library indexing and search.
Other sectors
AI and agents
From data to Olympic gold: data analytics that powered Dutch sailing medals
Transforming Dutch national sailors’ performance with advanced data insights.
Other sectors
Data and analytics
Utilising cloud and AI services to drive Digital Asset Management productivity
AI, GenAI and ML to drive adoption and cost efficiencies.
Consumer goods
AI and agents
Predict and visualise energy consumption with ML and AI for telecom giants
Forecasting and visualising energy use with machine learning and GenAI.
Other sectors
Machine learning
Consumer loyalty: building attribution models and digital consumer paths
Data analytics, machine learning and programmatic decision-making.
Consumer goods
Data and analytics
Employer branding: bringing pride to employees, and momentum to recruitment
Increasing employee satisfaction and corporate success.
Chemicals and base ingredients
Digital experience and commerce
Using a central Natural Language Processing (NLP) platform for multiple use cases
Improving customer service, data and marketing with NLP.
Chemicals and base ingredients
AI and agents
Data pipelines for effective data management
Accurate data reporting in Power BI, from source to dashboard.
Retail
Data and analytics
Data quality assurance
Reassurance that data is accurate at each stage of the reporting process.
Chemicals and base ingredients
Data and analytics
Enterprise applications of LLMs and generative AI
Exploring commercial applications of large language models and generative AI.
Retail
AI and agents
Empowering operational excellence: a Power Apps transformation journey
Industry 4.0 transformation of an FMCG giant.
Consumer goods
Automation
redLine: cloud computing cost optimisation
Real-time cost reporting and recommendations with Portera redLine.
—Sector not listed
Cloud and platforms
Machine learning and RPA transforming purchase order processing
Reducing costs and increasing efficiency through innovation.
Chemicals and base ingredients
Automation
Operations: streamlining supplier payments
Driving performance efficiency by automating supplier interactions.
Chemicals and base ingredients
Automation
Connecting business data
Unlocking tangible value and increased revenue per customer.
Baby and juvenile
Data and analytics
Operations: secure document generation and distribution
Controlling the automated distribution of sensitive documents.
Chemicals and base ingredients
Automation
People performance: deploying technology to drive behaviour change
Creating behaviour change through gamification of the work environment.
Consumer goods
Digital experience and commerce
From chaos to clicks: low-code and no-code for citizen developers
Streamlining operations with citizen developers.
—Sector not listed
Automation
Achieving customer loyalty
A new approach to driving mass product engagement, data and repeat sales.
Baby and juvenile
Digital experience and commerce
Data-driven decision-making
Translating business problems into analytics questions.
Retail
Data and analytics
E-commerce conversion rate optimisation
Outstripping the competition.
Retail
Digital experience and commerce
Advancing efficiency with cloud computing
Cloud Competence Centre creation and management.
Consumer goods
Cloud and platforms
Data Centre of Excellence
Generating value from potential.
Consumer goods
Data and analytics
Salesforce Service Cloud
Business transformation and change management.
Consumer goods
Cloud and platforms
Digital experience design
Building stand-out experiences.
Consumer goods
Digital experience and commerce
Business intelligence and reporting
Building actionable insight and reporting through data.
Consumer goods
Data and analytics
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