Supply Chain Café: When the harvest fails: a real customer journey through Supply Chain Disruption in Italian Food Manufacturing

Supply Chain Café: When the harvest fails: a real customer journey through Supply Chain Disruption in Italian Food Manufacturing

Supply Chain Café by PICS Belgium & ABCAL

Supply Chain Café is an initiative of PICS Belgium & ABCAL, oriented to members and domain experts, with the goal to distribute knowhow discussing amongst peers. The PICS Supply chain Cafés are 1 hour’s interactive lunch sessions, where an industry expert is invited to present a supply chain topic in 20 minutes, followed by a lively debate among all participants.

What happens when a Northern Italian pasta manufacturer faces a harvest failure, a supplier strike, and a logistics bankruptcy — simultaneously, in a single quarter?

This is the documented journey of an Italian food producer that chose not to patch the problem but to rebuild its intelligence architecture from the ground up. In twelve months, using BrainPredict’s 22 supply AI models connected to their existing SAP environment, they went from reactive crisis management to autonomous, predictive material management.

The results speak clearly: €4.2M in prevented losses, 312% ROI, 95.2% demand forecast accuracy, and a supplier concentration reduced from 63% to 38% — without replacing a single system.

About the Speaker:

Marco Piccio, co-founder of BrainPredict, https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcopiccio/