4 Data Source Integration
40+ Channels
4000+ SKUs
Goals
Automate forecasting with little to no human intervention.
Streamline the demand planning process with a user-friendly UI that provides a single, comprehensive platform for managing all aspects of demand forecasting.
Eliminate manual effort and ensure continuous accuracy with automated diagnostics and parameter updates. Identify potential issues early on and automatically adjust forecasting parameters based on the latest data, ensuring consistently reliable forecasts.
Challenges
Lack of visibility and simultaneous access for multiple users to foster collaboration.
Diverse category portfolios, transitions and rapidly changing market conditions, hindering agility and proactive action.
Achievements
- Consolidated demand planning efforts into a single, centralized platform, eliminating silos and ensuring consistency across the organization.
- Gained real-time insights into demand trends, enabling faster and more informed decision-making.
- Leveraged advanced forecasting rules to seamlessly adjust manual edits, bridging the gap between forecast generation and planning.
- Handled aggregation/disaggregation seamlessly within the same platform, ensuring consistency between tactical and operational decisions.
- Automated daily forecasting tasks, eliminating manual intervention and freeing up valuable resources for strategic planning.
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.
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.
