Planning System Implementation
Case details
Client Profile
An American footwear, apparel, and accessories brand for equestrian sports, work industries, and other outdoor activities.
Revenue
$600M USD
Employees
Problem Statement
We need support in design and building of an advanced planning platform to enable future growth across all channels
- Act as advisor to client IT and business teams in the requirements definition and future state process vision
- Support in defining the structure for functional testing and end to end system validation
- Conduct change management sessions with end users to explain new concepts and how the system implementation will impact process and daily activities
- Advise client on utilizing system functionality to highest capacity in production environment
- Integrated demand and supply planning platform with full adoption for wholesale and direct channels in the North America region
- Replaced excel based processes with scalable system capabilities
- Core capabilities include statistical forecasting, new product launch forecasting, time phased supply planning, inventory policy automation, and exception-based planning via configurable alerts
- Transit from manual planning process to scalable digital planning platform
- Reduced safety stock requirements to protect current service level targets
- Ability to perform inventory netting processes at a size level, ensuring optimized inventory levels