Customer
The customer provides energy storage solutions for the telecom, commercial, and industrial segment with the long-term goal of enabling customers to move away from fossil fuels and switch to long-lasting, smart, recyclable lithium batteries.
Challenges
- Multiple tools are used to perform demand forecasting and master production scheduling
- Limited visibility on mid-term inventory projection and need within material requirements planning
Solution
Bluecrux supported by:
- Implementing a demand forecast input through exception-based collaborative dashboards with optimal allocation to all production sites
- Implementing an integrated master production schedule, which translates the production plan through a 10-level BOM to an accurate and forward-looking material requirements plan
- Allowing capacity scenario’s to assess the impact of the plan on the different production sites – optimizing the number of hours and workers necessary on the production lines
Results
Reconciled application for demand and master production schedule
Scalable model that is truly business-owned within a growing organization
Optimized timing in placing of production and purchase orders
