For more than three decades, Frulact has supplied fruit and plant-based value-added ingredients to the world’s top food and beverage brands—including Danone, Chobani, and Nestlé.
Founded in Portugal in 1987, the company now operates eight production facilities across five countries, each fed by 2,000+ raw materials and subject to the realities of harvest windows, perishability, and seasonality.
Forecasting is hard in any process industry; it’s tougher when key inputs—like fresh fruit—are available only in limited windows and in limited supply. Get replenishment wrong and you either miss orders or write off materials.
Frulact tried for years to tame the problem with traditional tools.
The team needed a planning model that could protect availability while absorbing variability—without disrupting SAP or daily operations.
“The implementation wasn’t intrusive to our process. We could run DDMRP side by side with SAP and see the results.”
— Rogério Silva, Executive Director (Supply Chain & IT), Frulact
When Frulact evaluated Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP) and Intuiflow (formerly Replenishment+), they saw a way to plan to actual consumption, not long-range guesses.
“As soon as we saw the first material requests, we found how easy to use and easy to implement it was. It’s not intrusive to our ecosystem—we could try it in parallel, see the advantage, see the results, and keep using it. We’re very happy with the results.”
— Rogério Silva
Just what any growing, perishable-supply business needs.
Frulact’s transformation demonstrates how Intuiflow helps complex, global manufacturers simplify planning, cut inventory, and sustain growth through real-time visibility and adaptive control.
Intuiflow connects materials planning, scheduling, and execution in one unified platform. Planners manage by priorities, not firefighting, with AI-optimized buffers and live dashboards showing exactly where attention is needed.
Materials Planning: Keep inventory aligned to real demand, avoiding shortages and overstocks.
Scheduling & Execution: Sequence work by true priorities, not arbitrary due dates.
Sales & Operations Planning: Link strategic goals to daily realities through shared visibility.
Demand Planning: Adapt plans dynamically as conditions shift.
With Autopilot, Intuiflow’s AI engine continuously tunes buffers to maintain service while minimizing inventory. Embedded Power BI analytics make performance transparent, and seamless SAP integration ensures data accuracy and fast deployment.
See how Intuiflow can help your organization move from forecast-driven complexity to demand-driven flow.
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