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Polymer Operation Achieves High Supply Chain Cost Savings While Integrating Supply and Demand Planning
Billion dollar Polypropylene, PET and Polyethylene manufacturer in Asia. Despite forecast management through in-house technology still had a need to integrate supply and demand information.
Business Drivers
Support an expansive network of warehouses while accommodating numerous business groups competing for production resources. In addition, they lacked the capability to identify scheduling conflicts that would exceed their production capacity.
  • Effective integration all of supply and demand information.
  • Successfully Identify scheduling conflicts
  • Overcome in-house technology limitations
  • Maintain optimal performance levels
Solution
The WAM services team quickly began working with the internal planning team to create an efficient and cost-effective roadmap for implementation. Through a series of business process design workshops, WAM was able to deliver a solution that addressed the priorities of the business and supported the planning team with training and change management services throughout the project.

The system also generates recommended warehouse replenishment movements, as well as recommended raw material purchases driven by the SAP forecast, current orders, and the latest production schedule It helps the business users stay on top of key raw materials and make sure that projected net inventories are balanced based on real-time production, demand and inventory status.
Outcome
  • In first year of use, the WAM Solution exceeded cost savings goals by 25%
  • Savings have been increasing each year
  • Production facilities are scheduled to serve each of the different business groups
  • Internal team maintains complete visibility over its finite capacity utilization
  • First successful implementation immediately led to second implementation at a second location