The Challenge
Streamline S&OP process
Understand demand
Optimise stock
Improve customer service levels
Reduce manual planning
The results
- Optimised processes
- Control of inventory
- Global view of stocks
- Exception reports that are updated daily
- Hypercare support
“The system is being used as the fundamental part of our S&OP process now that our sales team are inputting sales forecasts directly into it providing them with more data and flexibility than they had before. So less excuse for poor forecasting”
- Carrington Textiles
- Stuart Pritchard, Supply Chain Director
Before implementing AGR, Carrington needed to refresh their process as their way of controlling their stock was via a monthly cycle of reviewing 3500 finished goods SKU’s and 300 BOM fabrics item by item which took a few weeks per month and then once that was complete, it was then time to start the manual process again for that month. Stuart continues ‘We had nothing telling us which SKU’s to look at as it was Excel based and needed to move towards a manage by exception methodology’.
Carrington selected AGR as their supply chain optimisation system of choice after spending some time reviewing others but ultimately felt like they liked the simplicity and flexibility of the AGR system which allows them to write their own reports, as well as generate them daily. Stuart continues to say ‘Most systems presented demand calculations etc but the fact the system has been developed by AGR and the team is not outsourced was also important to us. Also from a cost perspective, the license fee was based on our distribution points rather than the number of people accessing the system.’ This was important to Carrington as they always wanted their sales team to access the system to input forecasts and overall help with the alignment of the business.
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