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Unify, contextualize and activate enterprise data

Turn every data point intoprofitable actionacross HUL's FMCG portfolio

HUL’s market leadership depends on how fast it senses, understands, and acts on shifts in consumer demand, especially in high-growth categories like skin care. SCIKIQ’s AI-first data fabric transforms scattered data into actionable business intelligence — so you don’t just see what’s happening, you fix it before competitors react.

Contextualize your enterprise data — from sales and supply chain to consumer insights and compliance — into AI-ready products that fuel growth, margin, and agility in the world’s most competitive FMCG market.

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Enterprise 360What is happening?
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Knowledge GraphWhy is it happening?
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AI CopilotTell me, in plain language
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Agent FactoryDon't just tell me — fix it
What we know

Hindustan Unilever Limited — the intelligence behind this page

Captured from 15 sources across strategy, leadership, lines of business, competition, geographies, capabilities and recent signals — and used to ground everything below.

Who they are

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India’s largest FMCG company, present in 9 out of 10 households, and a subsidiary of Unilever. It leads in Home Care, Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, and Foods & Refreshment.

Strategic priorities

  • Consumer-led growth and premiumisation
  • Digital innovation and omni-channel expansion
  • Sustainable value creation
  • Supply chain agility and resilience
  • Compliance and regulatory leadership

Lines of business

  • Home Care
  • Beauty & Wellbeing
  • Personal Care
  • Foods & Refreshment

Geographies

  • India (all regions)
  • Urban and rural markets
  • Global supply chain (Unilever network)

Competition

  • L'Oréal
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Dabur
  • Godrej Consumer
  • Marico
  • ITC

Leadership

  • Sanjiv Mehta - CEO & MD
  • Ritesh Tiwari - CFO
  • Priya Nair - Chief Marketing Officer
  • Hemant Bakshi - Executive Director, Home Care
  • Dev Bajpai - Executive Director, Legal & Corporate Affairs

Capabilities

  • Brand leadership and consumer insight
  • Omni-channel distribution
  • Digital and data-driven marketing
  • Agile supply chain and vendor network
  • Sustainability and compliance

Recent signals

  • FY25–26 strategy: premiumisation and digital innovation
  • Recent stock volatility vs. competitors
  • Aggressive competitor promos in beauty & skin care
  • Focus on supply chain resilience post-pandemic
  • Ongoing EPR and FSSAI compliance initiatives
The shift

Four questions every operator asks — answered by one architecture

The maturity curve runs from visibility, to explanation, to natural-language reasoning, to action — and each step depends on the one before it.

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Layer 1 · Enterprise 360
What is happening?

Unifies fragmented sales, supply chain, and market data across SAP, Salesforce, Nielsen, and distributor networks, giving HUL a real-time, end-to-end view of category performance — down to SKU, region, and channel.

Growth
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Layer 2 · Knowledge Graph
Why is it happening?

Models relationships between consumer trends, inventory, promotions, and competitor activity, so root causes of sales shifts or stock-outs in skin care are instantly traceable — not buried in silos.

Competitive Advantage
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Layer 3 · AI Copilot
Tell me, in plain language

Lets brand managers and supply planners ask natural-language questions like 'Why did Lakmé Serum sales drop in West India last month?' and get grounded, explainable answers — not just dashboards.

Operational Efficiency
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Layer 4 · Agent Factory
Don't just tell me — fix it

Autonomously triggers corrective actions — e.g., reallocates inventory, adjusts digital campaigns, or issues urgent PO to a vendor — with full audit trail and compliance checks, protecting revenue and margin.

Profitability
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Compliance & Risk
Are we in control?

Monitors regulatory, quality, and sustainability risks (e.g., FSSAI, packaging EPR) across the value chain, surfacing violations or audit triggers before they hit the bottom line.

Compliance & Risk
The architecture

From data visibility to autonomous execution

Built bottom-up, because trust compounds upward: agents are only as safe as the copilot's grounding, the copilot only as reliable as the graph, the graph only as complete as the 360° model beneath it.

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Enterprise 360

What is happening across categories, SKUs, and channels?

Integrates all core business data: sales, supply chain, consumer insights, distributor performance, and financials — for a single, trusted view.

200+ pre-built FMCG connectors 85% faster data integration SKU- and region-level drill-down
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Knowledge Graph

Why is it happening?

Maps the relationships and drivers across the value chain — from consumer demand to supply, marketing, and compliance — so you can trace root causes and predict impact.

Contextual graph of products, channels, vendors, events Root-cause analytics Competitor and promo linkage
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AI Copilot

Tell me, in plain language

Natural-language, GenAI-powered Q&A on top of your unified data — with explainability, not hallucination.

Grounded LLMs Business-contextual answers Explainable recommendations
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Agent Factory

Don't just tell me — fix it

Autonomous agents that detect, decide, and act — e.g., optimize inventory, trigger campaign, or alert compliance — with full governance and audit.

Proactive and reactive agents Write-back to SAP, Salesforce, etc. Closed-loop verification
Layer 1 · Enterprise 360 — the build

How we unify Hindustan Unilever’s data into one business 360

Data remains in HUL’s core systems; SCIKIQ unifies business concepts — not just tables — to create a living, cross-silo view of categories, SKUs, channels, and vendors.

Your systems today — siloed
SAP S/4HANA (ERP, SKU, inventory, financials)SAP IBP (supply chain planning)Salesforce (CRM, promo, channel sales)Ariba (procurement, vendor compliance)Nielsen (market share, competitor data)Distributor Portal (channel orders, inventory)E-commerce platformsRegulatory databases (FSSAI, EPR)
ingest · no data movement

Connect

200+ pre-built FMCG connectors ingest data from SAP, Salesforce, Ariba, Nielsen, and more — no code required.

Contextualize

Maps data to business entities (SKUs, regions, vendors, promos) and aligns metrics for apples-to-apples reporting.

Resolve & model

De-duplicates, links, and models relationships across SKUs, supply events, and market share shifts.

Govern

Applies data quality, lineage, and access controls — with full audit and compliance traceability.

resolve into business entities
Unified business 360s — entities, not systems
Category 360
SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, Nielsen

Unified view of category P&L, SKUs, margin, and market share across all channels.

SKU 360
SAP S/4HANA, SAP IBP, Ariba

Tracks every SKU’s sales, inventory, supply chain events, and compliance status.

Channel 360
Salesforce, Distributor Portal, E-commerce

Integrates modern trade, e-commerce, and distributor data for true omnichannel visibility.

Vendor 360
Ariba, SAP S/4HANA

Monitors vendor performance, on-time rates, and compliance for every supply partner.

Promo 360
Salesforce, Nielsen

Connects promo spend, ROI, and competitor activity to real sales impact.

These 360s power the Knowledge Graph, connecting every event and entity for root-cause analysis and AI-driven action.
Why us

Why SCIKIQ - not another data platform

vs. building it yourself

SCIKIQ delivers a unified, contextualized data fabric in <6 months — not years — with 85% faster integration and 70% lower prep cost. HUL’s teams focus on growth, not plumbing.

vs. point tools & BI dashboards

Goes beyond reporting: connects root causes across silos, enables semantic Q&A, and closes the loop with autonomous agents — not just dashboards and alerts.

vs. generic data fabric/lake

Purpose-built for FMCG: 200+ connectors, business-contextual models (SKU, channel, promo, vendor), and rapid time-to-value for category and supply chain teams.

vs. raw LLMs/chatbots

Grounds every answer in HUL’s real data, with full lineage and explainability — no hallucination, no compliance risk.

The outcome

One version of the truth, for the people who run the business

When the four layers are in place, leadership sees a single live view — every number traceable to its source, every alert to its root cause.

HUL Skin Care Value Control Tower
Real-time metrics across growth, margin, cash, compliance, and competitive edge
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Skin Care Category Revenue (₹ Cr)
2,175
-2.1%
Gross Margin (%)
51.2
-0.8
Stock-out Rate (%)
3.7
+1.5
Market Share vs. L'Oréal (%)
24.3
-0.6
DSO (Days)
28
+2
Regulatory Compliance Incidents (YTD)
1
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Skin Care Revenue Trend

Trailing 12 months (₹ Cr)

Stock-out Rate by Region

Skin Care SKUs — Last 30 days
Root cause Spike in stock-outs for Lakmé and Pond's SKUs in West India due to supply chain disruption. Trigger agent to reallocate inventory from surplus regions and issue urgent PO to alternate vendor.
Layer 2 · Knowledge Graph

A living model of the business — explore it

Entities and their typed relationships as one connected, physics-driven graph. Drag nodes, scroll to zoom, click to inspect — or trace the live scenario from root cause to business outcome.

drag · scroll to zoom · click a node
Layer 3 · AI Copilot

The question is simple. The answer needs context.

Ask in plain language — get answers grounded in HUL’s real data, not just dashboards. Language models supply the fluency; the graph supplies the truth.

SCIKIQ CopilotGrounded on the Hindustan Unilever Limited knowledge graph
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Layer 4 · Agent Factory

The last step is the hardest: from insight to action

Every agent draws on the same graph and semantic layer — then closes the loop with a real transaction in the source system.

Stock-out Recovery Agent
Autonomous inventory reallocation and urgent PO issuance
Stock-out rate exceeds 5% for hero SKUs in any region
ReadsSAP IBP (stock-outs), SAP S/4HANA (inventory), Ariba (vendor status), Salesforce (promo calendar)
ActsReallocates inventory across regions in SAP S/4HANA; issues urgent PO to alternate vendor in Ariba
Protects ₹7.8 Cr revenue and 0.6% market share in skin care
Promo ROI Optimizer
Aligns supply with demand during campaigns
Promo uplift not matched by inventory; ROI drops below 2.5x
ReadsSalesforce (promo calendar), SAP IBP (demand/supply), SAP S/4HANA (SKU inventory)
ActsAdjusts promo spend in Salesforce; triggers inventory pull-forward in SAP S/4HANA
Improves promo ROI by 1.1x and recovers ₹2.7 Cr in lost sales
Compliance Early Warning Agent
Proactively monitors FSSAI and EPR packaging compliance
Incident or shortfall detected in Ariba or SAP S/4HANA
ReadsAriba (vendor compliance), SAP S/4HANA (product specs), Salesforce (channel feedback)
ActsFlags at-risk SKUs, notifies compliance team, and triggers corrective action in Ariba
Reduces regulatory incident risk by 95%, avoiding penalties and audit findings
Market Share Recovery Agent
Targets competitor promo overlap with rapid response
Market share loss detected in Nielsen vs. L'Oréal
ReadsNielsen (market share, competitor promo), SAP S/4HANA (SKU sales), Salesforce (channel data)
ActsLaunches digital campaign in Salesforce, reallocates inventory in SAP S/4HANA
Recovers up to 0.6% market share in West India, worth ₹3.5 Cr incremental sales
Agent execution log
▸ Idle — press “Run agent” to watch an agent detect, reason and act.
The board question

Engineered for trust

“Can we trust it?” — answered by design, not by promise.

Lineage
Every insight and agent action is fully traceable — from SAP to Salesforce to Ariba — with one-click drill-down.
Security & Access
Enterprise-grade controls, role-based access, and audit logs; aligns with HUL’s and Unilever’s global standards.
Explainability
Every copilot answer is grounded in real data, with causal links and business context — no black-box AI.
Data Quality
Automated data profiling, deduplication, and anomaly detection across all 360s.
Compliance
Monitors FSSAI, EPR, and other mandates in real time; reduces compliance violations by up to 95%.
Use cases

Where it pays off, across the business

Every leader sees themselves — each use case builds on a business 360 and the four pillars it needs: 1 Enterprise 360 · 2 Knowledge Graph · 3 AI Copilot · 4 Agent Factory.

Category Management

Category 360: See, diagnose, and act on category performance in real time

Unify revenue, margin, and market share data across all channels; trace root causes of dips and trigger corrective action instantly.

Category 360
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Supply Chain

SKU 360: End-to-end supply chain visibility and resilience

Monitor every SKU’s inventory, supply events, and vendor status; proactively resolve bottlenecks before they hit sales.

SKU 360
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Sales & Channel

Channel 360: Omnichannel insights for modern trade, e-commerce, and distributors

Integrate sales, stock, and promo data for every channel; optimize allocation and campaign ROI.

Channel 360
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Procurement & Compliance

Vendor & Compliance 360: Monitor risk, quality, and regulatory status

Track vendor performance, compliance incidents, and sustainability targets; automate early warning and remediation.

Vendor 360
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Marketing

Promo 360: Link spend, uplift, and supply for every campaign

Connect promo investment to real sales and inventory outcomes; optimize spend and avoid ROI erosion.

Promo 360
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The ambition

One context layer, every part of the business

Built once, the context layer becomes shared infrastructure — so each new AI initiative starts from enterprise context, not a blank integration backlog.

Activate HUL’s data for growth, margin, and agility

From data silos to autonomous value creation

Agent FactoryAutonomous execution
AI CopilotSemantic, explainable Q&A
Knowledge GraphContextual, connected insights
Enterprise 360Unified, trusted data
Across every part of the business
Home CareBeauty & WellbeingPersonal CareFoods & Refreshment
On top of the systems you already run
SAP S/4HANASAP IBPSalesforceAribaNielsenDistributor Portal
The path forward

A 90-day proof of value

We would prove the context layer in three focused sprints — earning the right to scale with evidence, not slideware.

Phase 1 · 30 days

Rapid Data Unification & Skin Care 360

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Stand up a unified, real-time view of skin care category performance and supply chain events.

  • Connect SAP S/4HANA, SAP IBP, Salesforce, Ariba, and Nielsen for skin care
  • Build Category 360, SKU 360, and Vendor 360 for pilot SKUs
  • Baseline KPIs: revenue, margin, stock-outs, promo ROI
  • Configure first root-cause graph and copilot Q&A
Phase 2 · 60 days

Knowledge Graph & Copilot Rollout

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Model relationships, automate root-cause analysis, and enable natural-language Q&A for business users.

  • Expand graph to all skin care SKUs, channels, and vendors
  • Enable AI Copilot for category and supply chain teams
  • Trace incidents and lost sales to root causes
  • Pilot compliance and promo optimization agents
Phase 3 · 90 days

Agent Factory & Autonomous Action

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Deploy autonomous agents for incident remediation and proactive value creation.

  • Roll out stock-out recovery, promo ROI, and compliance agents
  • Integrate write-back to SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, Ariba
  • Measure impact: revenue protected, margin lifted, incident reduction
  • Scale to other categories (Home Care, Foods, etc.)

The bottom line

In 90 days, HUL’s skin care business shifts from reactive firefighting to proactive, autonomous value creation — with measurable gains in revenue, margin, and market share.

Where to start

Pilot the SCIKIQ Data Product Factory on HUL’s skin care business — and scale across categories.
1Run a 30-day pilot: unify skin care data from SAP, Salesforce, Ariba, and Nielsen
2Deploy root-cause graph and copilot for category and supply chain teams
3Launch Stock-out Recovery Agent to protect revenue and margin in real time
Let’s move the needle on growth, margin, and competitive edge for HUL — starting with skin care.