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- Industry: Beverage / Brewing.
- Revenue: US$1.76 billion.
- Key Challenges: Supply planning done at different levels of characteristics at - Ordering SKUs and Manufacturing SKUs. As a result, de-fragmented planning data and processes.
- Strategic Supply Chain Goals and benefits:
- Improve speed to market and strong partnership with Distributors channel.
- Functional Integration - Integration between Order To Cash (O2C), Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Production planning.
- Stream line : Plan --> Brew--> Order--> Package--> Fulfill
- Deliver America's best seamlessly integrated Supply Chain with distributor's ordering system and its supply chain.
- Close the company's largest negative gap to industry average in forecasting/ordering capability.
- Improvements in packaging and pallet integrity for the distributors.
- Remove SKU proliferation with rigorous PLM (Product Lifecycle Management).
- Extend the supply network to suppliers, retailers and consumers.
- SAP and Other Modules Used:
- SAP Enterprise Central Component (ECC) 5.0.
- SAP SCM/SNC (Supplier Network Collaboration).
- SAP SCM/APO DP (Advanced Planner and Optimizer - Demand Planning).
- SAP SCM/APO SNP (Supply Network Planning).
- SAP SCM/APO PP/DS (Production Planning / Detailed Scheduling).
- Custom Sales orders Management tools for the distributors.
- Teradata, Webmethods, Business Objects, SAP BI.
- Regional Scope and phases: North America and Canada. Implementation in three different phases.
- Key Performance Indicators Improved:
- Forecast accuracy, Perfect Order fulfillment, Customer Service, Inventory Turns.