Bel partners with Accenture to accelerate digital transformation towards a healthier, more sustainable food model

Cheese, fruit and vegetable snacking giant Bel is partnering with Accenture to accelerate digital transformation towards a healthier and more sustainable food model.

Accenture will pair expertise in consumer goods, digital engineering and manufacturing with data, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology solutions to help Bel become more resilient and agile and create new value and growth.

For more than 150 years, Bel has been a leader in food innovation, delivering iconic, healthy and accessible products to consumers worldwide. Committed to continuous growth and sustainability, Bel is now undergoing a major digital transformation to enhance its digital capabilities.

The initiative aims to implement cutting-edge technology solutions that support long-term, profitable and eco-friendly growth across global markets.

How Bel aims to accelerate digital transformation

While the collaboration extends throughout Bel’s end to end digitization roadmap, it focuses on the execution of a set of major interconnected projects, according to a press release. These include:

• Increasing production efficiency: Accenture is supporting Bel in the deployment of a common Manufacturing Execution System (MES) across Bel’s 11 core food and dairy factories worldwide to standardize and continuously optimize production processes. This will enhance real-time monitoring of machinery and equipment performance, boost production efficiency and ensure consistent product quality. By replacing manual processes with streamlined digital workflows, Bel is laying the foundation for data-driven factories, enabling the adoption of industry best practices that minimize waste, reduce energy usage and lower water consumption.
• Improving logistics and supply chains: Accenture is teaming up with Bel to set up an advanced planning solution for the company. This AI-powered solution enhances material and product inventory, enabling Bel to better anticipate shifts in customer demand. This helps reduce costs, ensure steady product availability for consumers and contributes to the company’s 2035 goal to lower its emissions by 25 percent.
• Bringing products to the market faster: Accenture will assist Bel to introduce enhanced data capabilities to the company’s product lifecycle management. These new capabilities will give Bel real-time access to regulatory, product and quality data across all functions, enhancing visibility at every stage of product development.
• Orchestrating business transformation: Accenture is helping Bel organize and coordinate its transformation projects effectively. The goal is to successfully steer strategic initiatives, ensure synergy and cross-functional collaboration across the organization and deliver measurable improvements. This involves establishing clear program management and building a strong team of people responsible for overseeing various business process workflows.

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Setting new standards in responsible and profitable food manufacturing

Bel’s goal is to set a new standard in responsible and profitable food manufacturing, said Cécile Béliot, CEO of Bel Group. “To achieve it, we have embarked on a massive transformation and Accenture shares our commitment to make it a success. Moreover, they bring the necessary digital engineering and manufacturing capabilities, technology, industry and domain expertise in sustainability, rock-solid project management and an outstanding commitment to deliver excellence at all times.”

The initiative goes far beyond modernizing operations, carrying a story of impact, added Elisabeth Ellison-Davis, chief strategy and transformation at Bel Group. “We will develop a fully connected supply chain, optimize our logistics flows and expand responsible practices, while eventually incorporating technologies such as AI to reduce time to market and drive productivity. To reinvent ourselves, we must involve all functions of the organization – from R&D to the production and marketing of our products – to impact consumers worldwide.”

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