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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Case studySectorCore technologyLink

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 goodsData 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 ingredientsMachine 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 ingredientsData 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 goodsCloud 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 ingredientsAI 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.

ManufacturingMachine 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 goodsMachine 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 goodsMachine 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 juvenileDigital 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.

RetailAI 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 goodsCloud and platforms

Unlocking insight: transforming documents with AI and RAG

AI-powered transformation of library indexing and search.

Other sectorsAI and agents

From data to Olympic gold: data analytics that powered Dutch sailing medals

Transforming Dutch national sailors’ performance with advanced data insights.

Other sectorsData and analytics

Utilising cloud and AI services to drive Digital Asset Management productivity

AI, GenAI and ML to drive adoption and cost efficiencies.

Consumer goodsAI 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 sectorsMachine learning

Consumer loyalty: building attribution models and digital consumer paths

Data analytics, machine learning and programmatic decision-making.

Consumer goodsData and analytics

Employer branding: bringing pride to employees, and momentum to recruitment

Increasing employee satisfaction and corporate success.

Chemicals and base ingredientsDigital 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 ingredientsAI and agents

Data pipelines for effective data management

Accurate data reporting in Power BI, from source to dashboard.

RetailData and analytics

Data quality assurance

Reassurance that data is accurate at each stage of the reporting process.

Chemicals and base ingredientsData and analytics

Enterprise applications of LLMs and generative AI

Exploring commercial applications of large language models and generative AI.

RetailAI and agents

Empowering operational excellence: a Power Apps transformation journey

Industry 4.0 transformation of an FMCG giant.

Consumer goodsAutomation

redLine: cloud computing cost optimisation

Real-time cost reporting and recommendations with Portera redLine.

Sector not listedCloud and platforms

Machine learning and RPA transforming purchase order processing

Reducing costs and increasing efficiency through innovation.

Chemicals and base ingredientsAutomation

Operations: streamlining supplier payments

Driving performance efficiency by automating supplier interactions.

Chemicals and base ingredientsAutomation

Connecting business data

Unlocking tangible value and increased revenue per customer.

Baby and juvenileData and analytics

Operations: secure document generation and distribution

Controlling the automated distribution of sensitive documents.

Chemicals and base ingredientsAutomation

People performance: deploying technology to drive behaviour change

Creating behaviour change through gamification of the work environment.

Consumer goodsDigital experience and commerce

From chaos to clicks: low-code and no-code for citizen developers

Streamlining operations with citizen developers.

Sector not listedAutomation

Achieving customer loyalty

A new approach to driving mass product engagement, data and repeat sales.

Baby and juvenileDigital experience and commerce

Data-driven decision-making

Translating business problems into analytics questions.

RetailData and analytics

E-commerce conversion rate optimisation

Outstripping the competition.

RetailDigital experience and commerce

Advancing efficiency with cloud computing

Cloud Competence Centre creation and management.

Consumer goodsCloud and platforms

Data Centre of Excellence

Generating value from potential.

Consumer goodsData and analytics

Salesforce Service Cloud

Business transformation and change management.

Consumer goodsCloud and platforms

Digital experience design

Building stand-out experiences.

Consumer goodsDigital experience and commerce

Business intelligence and reporting

Building actionable insight and reporting through data.

Consumer goodsData and analytics

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