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title: Food & Beverage Case Study
description: A European food ingredients producer who needed better controls around its n-tier supply chain blind spots...
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##### Case Study

# Food & Beverage Manufacturing Supply Chain Risk

#### From Tier 1 Visibility to Full Value Chain Control

Mapped 250+ suppliers across 3+ tiers in under 7 days revealing hidden dependencies and multi-million euro exposure to disruption and commodity volatility.

 

### Client Challenge

#### A leading European dairy and ingredients manufacturer operating across global markets faced increasing complexity across its value chain from agricultural sourcing through to ingredient processing and international distribution.

![food-1](https://www.attaima.com/hubfs/food-1.jpg)

Despite strong procurement and supplier relationships, **critical dependencies beyond tier 1 were largely invisible**, leaving the organisation exposed to:

- Commodity price volatility
- Supplier concentration risk
- Climate and geographic disruption
- Increasing ESG and assurance requirements

Investigating these risks was **slow, manual, and fragmented across teams**, making it difficult to act early or quantify financial impact.

At the board level, there was **no clear, defensible link between supply chain risk and revenue exposure**, limiting confidence in strategic sourcing and reporting decisions.

#### Scope and Objectives

**Goal:** Rapidly discover, visualize, and mitigate value chain risks across core product lines—while linking supply chain exposure directly to financial impact and improving audit readiness.cisions.

**Key Inputs**

- Bills of Materials (BOMs) for selected dairy and ingredient product lines
- Tier 1 supplier and sourcing data
- Partial operational and production site data
- Regional procurement inputs

 

##### Case Study

## The Approach

 

##### 1. Discover & Visualize

- Ingested BOMs and supplier data to map **multi-tier supplier networks (tier 1–3+)**
- Identified upstream dependencies across agricultural inputs, processing facilities, and logistics networks
- Delivered a **live, user-friendly, human-centric interactive canvas** of the full value chain

![pharma-cs-1](https://www.attaima.com/hubfs/pharma-cs-1.svg)

 

##### 2. Identify Weak Spots

- Highlighted **hidden supplier concentration and geographic exposure**
- Identified risks linked to **commodity volatility, climate exposure, and supplier financial health**
- Flagged **single points of failure across critical ingredients and inputs**
- Quantified **potential revenue and cost exposure tied to key dependencies**

![pharma-cs-2-1](https://www.attaima.com/hubfs/pharma-cs-2-1.svg)

 

##### 3. Mitigate

- Surfaced **similarly qualified alternative suppliers across regions**
- Identified opportunities for **supplier diversification, nearshoring, and dual sourcing**
- Enabled **data-driven sourcing decisions balancing cost, resilience, and compliance**

![pharma-cs-3](https://www.attaima.com/hubfs/pharma-cs-3.svg)

 

##### Outcomes

- **End-to-end visibility** across 250+ entities spanning multiple tiers of the value chain
- Identification of **critical supplier concentration** risks across key ingredients
- Clear linkage between **supplier disruption and financial impact**
- Reduction in investigation time from **weeks to days**
- Quantified **multi-million euro exposure** to disruption and commodity volatility
- Improved ability to make **audit-ready, defensible sourcing and materiality decisions**
- Greater confidence at board level through **evidence-backed risk visibility**

 

#### **Why Attaima?**

- **Speed at scale:** Delivered multi-tier visibility in days, not months
- **Beyond tier 1:** Uncovered hidden dependencies traditional tools and manual processes miss
- **Financial clarity:** Linked value chain risk directly to revenue and cost exposure
- **Audit-ready by design:** Created a defensible, traceable view of decisions and assumptions
- **Continuous monitoring:** Enabled ongoing visibility across suppliers, regions, and risk signals

#### **Next steps / ongoing work**

- Expand coverage across additional product lines and global operations
- Integrate **continuous monitoring for supplier, commodity, and reputational risks**
- Enhance **scenario modelling to support long-term sourcing and resiliency strategy**

![food-white](https://www.attaima.com/hubfs/food-white.svg)

> “For the first time, we had a clear, defensible view of our value chain allowing us to identify risks early, quantify impact, and act with confidence.”

##### — Senior Procurement Leader

###### Mainland European F&B Manufacturer

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