6 Months Test & Learn
Results after
6 months of go-live
Goals
Data integration across ERP and data warehouse systems
Real-time visibility for transactional data, planning inputs, and KPI metrics
Cross-functional visibility to improve planning outputs
Automated decision-making platform to manage E2E supply chain operations
Challenges
Low accessibility and inconsistency of data between silos
Lack of actionable insights due to disconnected sources
Heavy reliance on Excel-like manual systems for planning and reporting
Limited alignment among different supply chain functions
Benefits
Gathered internal and external data on a single platform
Delivered corporate visibility and clarity for all stakeholders in the supply chain
Executed plans that require low to no-touch planning immediately
Achieved real-time visibility and agility for faster decision-making
Quick impact on business results through test and learn
Provided short and mid-term visibility to support investment decisions such as increasing production or storage capacity
Horizontal alignment that considers accurate trade-offs for revenue, profit and cost for optimized decisions
“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.”
Graham Sommer
About Company
Unilever, a British multinational consumer goods company, is a global giant in the realm of everyday essentials, spanning over 190 countries and employing a diverse workforce of 127,000 individuals. Its intricate supply chain, meticulously crafted over decades of operation, forms the backbone of its success, ensuring seamless delivery of its renowned brands such as Dove, Ben & Jerry’s, and Lifebuoy to every corner of the globe. With brands used by over 3.4 billion people daily, Unilever’s impact on the global consumer market is undeniable.
Achievements
8x – 12x Faster Daily/Weekly Planning with Higher Predictability
600bps Increase in Service Levels
420bps Forecast Accuracy Increase
95%+ User Acceptance Rates
500bps Decrease in Transportation Costs
410bps Decrease in Inventory Overstock Level
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.
