Customer
One of the world’s most geographically diversified steel producers, with a market coverage in construction, automotive, packaging and many more. They have operations in 26 countries commercial offices in over 35 countries.
Challenges
- Many different divisions with their own sales organization. On top of that, every division requires raw steel from the same primary plants to meet customer demands
- Doubts on how they could balance capacity fairly and strategically over the different divisions
- Need to keep stock levels and stock-outs in check
Solution
bluecrux supported in:
- Creating a planning sheet allowing to spread capacity over divisions
- Integrating demand planning data into planning sheet
- Tracking the impact on slab stocks and arrears
- SC Reporting connected to S&OP
Results
Anaplan now allows collaborative planning by S&OP teams
Integrated demand data now avoids data erros and data islands
Connected planning in Anaplan reduces an overload of e-mail communication with Excels
