~100 Shipping Points
160 M liters Shipped
2 DCs
1 RDC
Goals
Automating daily replenishment decisions to balance service requirements with inventory availability
Minimizing costs without sacrificing service by creating multi-stop transportation plans
Challenges
High seasonality (50% of demand in 3 months) requires a full-year DRP to effectively manage capacity constraints during peak seasons.
Complicated DRP, caused by long planning horizon and high number of operational constraints, requires a sophisticated optimization approach
Forecast at shipping point level is necessary for correct VMI decisions
Benefits
Single digital platform to connect annual DRP with daily replenishment and transportation plans.
DRP generated at product, shipping point, and week detail
Optimized daily plans which only require manual intervention to manage exceptions.
Faster decision making with increased visibility
About Company
Unilever is a global consumer goods company with a diverse portfolio of trusted brands in food, home care, and personal care, serving billions of people worldwide.
Achievements
85% No Touch Planning
Don’t take our word for it
80% of IT tools investment fails if the partners don’t strive to continuously improve and adapt. That is what sets our partnership with Solvoyo apart.
With Solvoyo, we eliminated spreadsheets from the process and simultaneously increased process speed and planner efficiency across all regions.
Solvoyo’s S&OP platform gives both the regions and the HQ the ability to maintain a supply plan harmonized with demand and inventory investment targets. We now identify supply plan discrepancies proactively. Along the way, we eliminated Excel from the process and simultaneously increased process speed and planner efficiency across the enterprise.
We see rapid changes in demand, and when the inventory is short, we adjust our production plans accordingly. The adjustment requires a lot of manual work, causing suboptimal plans and inefficiencies on the production site. With Solvoyo’s optimized plans, not only do we make easy and smart decisions but also respond to any rapid change at the speed of the market.
Demand planning is both art and science. Until we collaborated with Solvoyo, we managed our demand planning process as a form of art, relying only on individual intuition backed up by the primitive science of spreadsheets. Now, we are finally in a position to make real-time decisions fed by all sorts of data.
