Leading Solar Distributor improve their sales and operations planning process
Transformation project to improve planning process and supplier collaboration to reduce procurement lead-times.
The Situation
- No common Demand & Supply planning at corporate level
- Lack of transparency across organizational boundaries
- Poor reporting capabilities in the Supply Chain area
- Redundant and local master data maintenance and definitions
- Limited scalability of the existing systems
The Solution
- Strategic redesign of Demand & Supply planning processes
- APO DP and SNP integrated with ECC and legacy business systems
- Custom-developed global master data repository
- APO built-in BW for flexible Supply Chain reporting
Rollout of the pilot to global sites
The Result
- Creation of a corporate Demand and Supply Planning process with standardized process steps, meetings, KPIs, and reports
- Improved forecast accuracy, higher delivery accuracy, increased capacity utilization and generally improved visibility
- Improved master data quality
- Scalable and fully integrated planning solution
