Food & Beverage Analytics Solutions | Polestar Analytics
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    Food & beverages engineered with data & AI

    Price, promote and plan with evidence at SKU and retailer level, not last year’s calendar.

    Food and beverage layers floating above a glass platform with connected data

    Trusted by consumer brands

    Perfetti Van Melle Bacardi Diageo H&M Delta Galil Alo Reckitt Zydus Wellness Panasonic Connect Whirlpool

    What is changing in food & beverage industry?

    The hard part has moved to decision quality from pricing power

    24%

    Private label value share in US food and beverage aisles

    15-25%

    of gross sales goes to trade, often the second-biggest cost

    4

    major US tariff changes, February to July 2026

    Sources: 1. Circana, US private label CPG sales reach $330 billion, March 2026. 2. West Monroe, Improving ROI for CPG manufacturers; KPMG, Winning the shelf war. 3. US Supreme Court IEEPA ruling (20 Feb), Section 122 surcharge (24 Feb), Section 232 overhaul (6 Apr) and new Section 301 tariffs (24 Jul 2026).

    Use cases

    Where is your food margin leaking?

    Know which deals earn their trade dollars

    Separate real incremental volume from pull-forward and cannibalisation for every event and retailer, then keep, fix or drop it.

    PromoPulseCommercial ExcellenceAnaplan TPM

    Trade promotion dashboard showing which promotions to continue, optimise or stop

    Keep every SKU under its price cliff

    See elasticity by SKU, retailer and region, watch the gap to store brands, and test a price or pack change before it ships.

    PricePulseCommercial ExcellenceModeling

    Price and pack dashboard showing price-pack verdicts by SKU and pack size

    Put the promo calendar inside the forecast

    Bring promotions, new items and retailer signals into one SKU forecast, then agree it once in a connected S&OP plan.

    DemandPulseAnaplan S&OPSupply Chain Excellence

    Demand and S&OP dashboard comparing baseline and promo-aware forecast accuracy

    Fund the channels that move cases

    Measure what each channel adds to sales, from retail media to TV, and shift budget and flighting toward what pays back.

    MediaPulseCommercial ExcellenceModeling

    Media mix dashboard showing spend and return by channel

    Close outlet gaps while the month is open

    Rank stock-outs, weak call conversion and missed displays by value, give each gap an owner, and track it to an outcome.

    InsightStudioAgenthood AICommercial Excellence

    Retail execution dashboard showing store execution scores against target

    Set quotas from potential, not last year

    Size each territory by outlet potential and cost to serve, then set quotas reps can reach and the business can fund

    1PlatformAnaplan SPMCommercial Excellence

    Territory and quota dashboard comparing quota with market potential

    Pay for profitable growth, not just volume

    Test plan designs before launch, tie payouts to mix and margin, and catch payout errors before they reach a rep.

    1PlatformAnaplan ICMFinancial Excellence

    Incentives dashboard simulating payout against net revenue by plan

    The path

    No rip and replace, no big bang

    1. Week 1-2Diagnostic
    2. Weeks 3–8Prove it
    3. ThenScale

    1Platform for food & beverage

    What does Polestar Analytics do for F&B brands?

    From trade terms to field incentives, we connect the commercial decisions that set your net revenue, using our IP accelerators & services.

    1Platform IPBusiness transformation
    AI foundationsF&B decisions

    1Platform for F&B Trade
    promotion
    Data
    Engineering
    Commercial
    Excellence
    Media mix Financial
    Excellence
    Pulse apps Modeling Price & pack MLOps Supply Chain
    Excellence
    Business
    Planning
    Prism Studio apps Agent
    Engineering
    Demand &
    S&OP
    Insights &
    Intelligence
    AI & Data
    Governance
    Retail
    execution
    App
    Modernization
    Platform &
    FinOps
    Territory &
    incentives

    Pick the part of the food P&L you want to move

    Modern glass office building

    Commercial Excellence

    Price, pack and trade terms that grow net revenue per case, not just cases shipped.

    Explore Commercial Excellence →
    Executive reviewing financial charts on a tablet

    Financial Excellence

    Gross-to-net you can trust, deductions you can trace, and tariff reforecasts in days.

    Explore Financial Excellence →
    Connected global supply chain network map

    Supply Chain Excellence

    Promo-aware forecasts that keep shelves full and cut fresh-product write-offs.

    Explore Supply Chain Excellence →

    Results sooner, because we never start from zero

    Pulse apps

    14 weeks

    to measured pilot results

    • PromoPulsePilot results by week 14
    • PricePulseDemo-ready today
    • DemandPulsePromo-aware SKU forecasts
    • MediaPulseChannel ROI and flighting
    • CapitalPulseMVP in 7–8 weeks

    Studio apps

    80–90%

    of your data foundation pre-built

    • Foundation Studio2–3 months, not 8–10
    • MigrationStudioAbout 35% less time and cost
    • FinOps StudioEvery dollar of waste owned

    Prism engine

    Weeks

    not quarters, to build a Pulse app for a new domain

    • Your data and documents
    • Knowledge graph
    • Purpose-built app

    No app for your domain? Give Prism your docs. In a few weeks, you’ll have one.

    Making data work for real-time POS analyticscommercial KPIstrade promotion and RGM

    Shopper checking her phone in a retail store aisle

    Store teams now see POS performance in minutes, not hours, while the peak is still happening.

    Global fashion footwear and accessories retailer

    Real-time POS analytics

    Read the case study →
    • 6-10 minPOS refresh, down from 30–120 min
    • 70-80%faster processing at higher volumes
    • 4,500files processed in 15 minutes
    Shopper choosing a bottled drink from a supermarket beverage aisle

    A 5% market share goal now runs on one shared set of KPIs that sales and IT both trust.

    Leading alcoholic beverage company

    Commercial analytics for on-premise growth

    Read the case study →
    • 40–55%better commercial reporting accuracy
    • 35–45%faster reporting cycles
    • 25–35%higher commercial team efficiency
    Woman shopping for fresh produce with a tablet in a grocery store

    Trade promotion, pricing and gross-to-net now run in one connected plan, not across disconnected systems.

    Global plant-based food company

    Trade promotion and gross-to-net planning

    Read the case study →
    • 60%less manual effort in settlement
    • 40%faster planning and reporting
    • 25%better promo spend visibility

    RGM roundtable series

    Where RGM leaders compare notes

    A webinar series on price, promotion, mix and connected planning, led by Saurabh Singh, our CPG & Retail Expert with people running RGM at major consumer brands.

    Featured experts from

    Ajinomoto Nestlé Unilever Church & Dwight BIC Coca-Cola McCain Holcim BAT GoTo Foods Opella Kellogg’s Diageo PepsiCo Reyes Albertsons Mondelēz International

    Why Polestar Analytics as your partner for food and beverage?

    We don’t ship and forget

    We stay after go-live: every decision gets an insight, an owner, an action and an outcome.

    Insight, owner, action, outcome: four connected steps
    • Commercial first

      The decision leads. The platform follows.

    • Proven against a control

      Every pilot result is yours to defend.

    • Platform-agnostic

      Built on the stack you already run, whatever it is.

    • Certified secure

      SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

    Trusted partnerships

    Anaplan Intelligence Trusted AI Partner
    Databricks Brickbuilder Silver Partner
    Microsoft Managed Partner
    Google CloudPartner
    Amazon Web ServicesPartner
    SnowflakePartner

    Latest food and beverage insights

    FAQ

    Questions food and beverage teams ask

    No. PromoPulse adds optimization on top of your TPM, with a live Anaplan bridge.

    No. It needs a clean data layer. If you lack one, Foundation Studio builds it.

    Yes. We model GLP-1 adoption, price moves and private-label share as separate drivers, so each effect on volume and mix is measured on its own instead of blended together.

    Pilot results by week 14, measured against a control set.

    Yes. We rerun cost, price and demand scenarios for each tariff change, so you can see the margin impact by SKU and respond in days, not quarters.

    See where your margin is leaking

    Bring one question, and we will show it with evidence.

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    Talk to our Experts

    Saurabh Singh

    Saurabh Singh

    Senior Vice President

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    Ankur Sharma

    Ankur Sharma

    Assistant Vice President

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