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Apparel & Footware

From Guesswork to Agility: How a Global Fashion Leader Conquered Demand Volatility

Faced with unpredictable demand and long product lead times, this premium lifestyle brand needed a smarter way to manage inventory risk. Discover how they replaced manual Excel spreadsheets with o9’s Digital Brain to postpone critical decisions on fabric, color, and size—gaining the flexibility to respond to market shifts in real-time while dramatically reducing waste.

This customer wanted to respond faster to market opportunities and supply disruptions by transforming end-to-end planning capabilities. Moreover, they required a scalable capability to postpone decisions on quantity, model, destination, price, and flow that will reduce inventory risk by providing transparency and flexibility.

Sustainability impact

Efficient and timely raw material purchasing and utilization, resource efficiency, and reduction of waste across the company and partner networks.

challenges

Complexity to Clarity

Challenge

This company was facing challenges around rapid identification of actions between product lead times and market closure, in addition to missing alignment on planning and buying strategies.

Solution

With o9’s Enterprise Knowledge Graph and supplier collaboration capabilities, they will be digitally connected with customers and suppliers to ensure synchronized planning and decision-making.

Value Delivery

Systems Replaced

  • Homegrown solutions
  • Excel

Key Functionalities Implemented

The Enterprise Knowledge Graph is used to implement supply planning and supplier collaboration, with the goal of optimizing the decision-making calendar, connecting seasonal planning through factory shipping, and responding to demand volatility with increased supply chain agility.

Customer Benefits

success factors

  • Platform flexibility and cutting-edge technology enable ongoing improvements as opportunities are identified.
  • Industry and transformation expertise is to be a key partner in the Digital Value Chain (DVC) initiatives long term.
  • Advanced supply chain modeling capabilities, supply chain solver, and Enterprise Knowledge Graph enabling a digital twin of the supply chain and robust scenario modeling.

KPI Impacted

  • Rapidly identify timing challenges between product lead times and market closure.
  • Postpone commitment decisions to procure fabric, lock color, size, and destination.
  • Simplify communications and work in a low-touch exception management digital environment.

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