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Semiconductors

Beyond the Spreadsheet: Unifying Global Semiconductor Planning on One Platform

For this global technology leader, managing a complex "fabless" semiconductor supply chain meant relying on disconnected spreadsheets, emails, and legacy systems. Discover how they replaced highly manual processes with o9’s Digital Brain to seamlessly forecast demand across all time horizons—improving agility, reducing lost sales, and cutting non-standard logistics costs.

This customer managed their forecasts with a highly manual approach that relied heavily on disconnected spreadsheets, the clunky Adexa system, and emails. For the supply side, inventory planning, order planning, and scheduling processes were fully manual and required extensive coordination, given the outsourced fabless model.

Sustainability impact

Reduction of waste due to a decrease in overproduction and the avoidance of expedites.

challenges

Complexity to Clarity

Challenge

Demand planning processes were not agile enough and lacked high accuracy levels.

Solution

With o9‘s platform, this company was able to seamlessly create forecasts for all time horizons — weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually — addressed in a single solution for both units and dollars.

Value Delivery

Systems Replaced

  • Adexa
  • Homegrown solutions
  • Excel

Key Functionalities Implemented

o9’s Enterprise Knowledge Graph was used to optimize demand, buffer (MEIO), wafer, and supply planning. Moreover, an easy adoption was provided using the o9 Excel UI. Admin users can now easily manage master data that is key for planning (EOL dates, transition items, products, and customer attributes).

Customer Benefits

success factors

  • End-to-end integrated platform with a high level of customizability.
  • Mature and sophisticated demand and supply planning solutions.
  • Highly customizable PO release workflow by leveraging o9’s highly differentiated Digital Twin.

KPI Impacted

  • Reduction of non-standard supply chain cost (flex and logistics).
  • Significant inventory improvement.
  • Reduction of lost sales.
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