Nestle S.A. - Enterprise Tech Ecosystem Series

Nestle S.A. (Nestle) is a food and beverages company, offering more than 2,000 branded products across 190 countries. The company classifies its business operations into six reportable segments: Zone Americas (AMS); Zone Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa (EMENA); Zone Asia, Oceania, and sub-Saharan Africa (AOA); Nestle Waters; Nestle Nutrition; and Other Business. The company's product portfolio includes baby foods, bottled water, cereals, chocolate and confectionery, coffee, culinary products, chilled and frozen foods, dairy products, drinks, nutritional products, and ice cream. Nestle manages R&D operations through a network of 40 R&D centers with 4,800 scientists and researchers, and product technology centers globally. Nestle also maintains 25 regional testing labs, which offer quality assurance.

The report provides information and insights into Nestle's tech activities, including -

• Insights of its digital transformation strategies and innovation programs
• Overview of technology initiatives covering partnerships, product launches and acquisitions
• Insights on each technology initiative including technology theme, objective, and benefits
• Details of estimated ICT budgets and major ICT contracts

Scope

• Nestle is following agile methodologies to improve its operational processes, expand its product portfolio, and create value. It is deploying technologies such as AI, IoT, cloud-based mobile applications, robots, machine learning, big data, etc. to collect data about the customers, machines, lands, and fields to make data-driven decisions.
• Nestle is focusing on streamlining its end-to-end construction site operations through process automation. It has been investing and implementing digital technologies, such as AI, cloud, autonomous vehicles, IoT, drones, analytics, SmartGrade systems, and other precision technologies to improve equipment efficiency and job site operations.
• Nestle announced a blockchain technology pilot program in collaboration with OpenSC, to allow its consumers track the entire lifecycle of a product from farm to stores.
• Nestle introduced cloud-based customer engagement solution to aggregate consumer data from different sources to provide unified customer view and enhance operational excellence.

Reasons to Buy

• Gain insights into Nestle's tech operations.
• Gain insights into its tech strategies and innovation initiatives.
• Gain insights into its technology themes under focus.
• Gain insights into various product launches, partnerships and acquisition strategies.