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Capital Goods

From Reactive to Proactive: How a Global Cargo Leader Revolutionized Demand Planning

For this leading manufacturer of cargo and load handling solutions, relying solely on the order book and Excel spreadsheets meant missing the bigger picture. Discover how they implemented o9’s Digital Brain to achieve a holistic view of demand across all stakeholders—slashing component shortages, optimizing inventory, and dramatically increasing forecast accuracy.

This manufacturer is a global initiative aimed at implementing digital transformation throughout their end-to-end supply chain and to drive efficiency by focusing on speed, automation, real-time, and transparency.

Sustainability impact

Reduction of inventory and optimization of logistics.

challenges

Complexity to Clarity

Challenge

Before implementing o9’s Digital Brain, the company did not have proper forecasting in place; the order book was the significant driver of decision-making.

Solution

With o9, they now have a holistic view of all relevant sources of demand planning shared across all stakeholders and external dealers in a collaborative workflow.

Value Delivery

Systems Replaced

  • Excel

Key Functionalities Implemented

o9 provided truly end-to-end planning software, including Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, Control Tower, Inventory Planning, Production scheduling. o9 Digital Brain is integrated with the ERP system (SAP HANA), the CRM (Salesforce), as well as the TMS (Oracle). A pilot on scheduling for discrete manufacturing was deployed as well.

Customer Benefits

success factors

  • The flexibility of the o9 platform to cope with the industry-specific requirements.
  • The integration capabilities in both SAP and Infor LN ERP, as well as SFDC CRM.
  • Implementation timeline.

KPI Impacted

  • Increased forecast accuracy.
  • Reduced component shortage due to better forecasting (capacity to forecast component requirements to meet client timeline).
  • Planning effort efficiencies.
Capital goods industry

Resource: Go digital: supply chain transformation in the Capital Goods industry

Download this o9-Genpact white paper to understand how digital supply chain transformation is offering modern solutions to typical challenges within the Capital Goods industry.

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