Novadis, part of the Heineken Group, was founded in Portugal in 2013 with the mission to become the most customer centric wholesaler leveraging the brewer ecosystem to deliver brands, knowledge and services through passionate people.
In order to increase profitability and growth, Novadis established the need for a new target operating model. This model required tight alignment of their commercial and distribution planning with their execution, covering all brands.
Previously, growth for Novadis had been achieved through acquisition and organic system adjustments.
To achieve their mission and meet their commercial objective, Novadis wanted to:
After a conducting a detailed evaluation, Novadis selected Aforza’s complete end-to-end Consumer Goods Cloud. Built on the Salesforce platform, Aforza uniquely offered Novadis a number of capabilities that met their exacting requirements. Namely the ability to:
The Aforza solution enabled Novadis to create a new “Connected Target Operating Model” across their entire business, including field sales, key account managers, drivers, tele-sales, customer operations, category planners & finance.
We needed a system that was born in our world; where data, insights, key planning applications like trade promotion management and modern mobile applications all come together. That's why I chose Aforza.
Marek Tolasz, CIO, Heineken Portugal
The Novadis transformation project is delivering value in three core ways:
By equipping companies with hyper-local sales intelligence and execution, Aforza transforms their entire planning and retail execution process so they can optimize their strategy for every customer, maximize the effectiveness of every visit, and achieve penny-perfect pricing at each selling moment across every channel.
Aforza is built on top of market-leading CRM vendor Salesforce and designed to specifically address the requirements and processes of today's Consumer Good industry.
We have developed highly performant pricing, recommendation, segmentation and automation engines using the Google Cloud Platform that uniquely allows our solutions to work in exactly the same way regardless of connectivity; both online and offline.
We offer a complete end-to-end solution that transforms the way you do business by using artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and machine learning optimization. From small businesses to global enterprises, our software solutions will help you drive growth through exceptional execution.
Interested to learn more? Why not take a free 30-day trial to see live the impact our solution could have on your end-to-end Trade Promotion Management and Retail Execution efforts.