52+ Week Horizon
41 Channels
800 SKUs
Goals
Plan production quantities for two-echelon (make & pack) multifactor productivity processes
Determine “cost” optimal shift planning for resources with labor plans via scheduling ready master production schedules
Challenges
Multi-tiered setups, ramp-up NPDs, time phased BOM/BORs, multi-period production campaigns
Use of Cost-To-Serve & Inventory optimization
Benefits
- Streamlined automated planning with little to no human touch
- Decreased dependence on Supply Planners
- Optimized production plans generated holistically
- Simultaneous planning for multiple locations with similar production capabilities
- Integration of DRP, MPS, and PPDS on an integrated platform, eliminating Silos
- Line schedules synchronized with MPS eliminate gaps between planning and execution
- Exception-based planning with user-guided remedies and predictive alerts
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
95%+ No Touch Planning
85%+ Output Reliability Rate
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.
