To better react to market changes and expand its competitive edge, BYK saw the need to select and implement a new supply chain demand planning system.

Integrated Approach to Address Demand Planning Processes Holistically

The company was challenged with inefficient, diversified, and isolated supply chain demand planning processes on disparate legacy planning systems that impeded forecast accuracy. Therefore, the goal was to enhance data and process transparency and establish one source of truth for sales, operations, and demand-planning processes.

BYK found that the , a cloud-based application with comprehensive capabilities, could best meet its goals to harmonize demand planning processes across the organization and improve forecast accuracy. In addition, the company decided to use the , enabling the company to get real-time visibility and control over its supply chain.

For the implementation and deep solution know-how, BYK sought help from and the 麻豆原创 Preferred Success service, which included architecture planning, implementation guidance, and process reengineering expertise. Moreover, 麻豆原创 helped deploy 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning for demand and 麻豆原创 Supply Chain Control Tower in a technically standardized and lean way.

Enabling All Functions with a Single Source of Truth to Improve Decision-Making

Major benefits BYK achieved include:

• Improved collaboration by implementing a harmonized and automated demand planning process
• Simplified and integrated planning practices for sales, demand planning, supply chain management, controlling, and strategic supply planning teams with more than 200 users
• One platform as a single source of truth for improved data quality and process transparency across sales, operations, and demand-planning processes
• Increased forecast accuracy with real-time data reflecting changes to planned demand

• Quantity- and value-based planning for all planning teams to make decisions based on financial impact

鈥淲ith 麻豆原创 Services and Support, we successfully implemented 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning for demand and 麻豆原创 Supply Chain Control Tower, enabling precise and accurate demand planning,” said Matthias Beenen, Supply Chain Process Management, BYK. “This is critical to supply chain efficiency and for delivering high quality service to our customers.鈥�

鈥淚n the future, we will continuously work on optimizing the implemented processes and extend 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning for demand by adding subsequent supply chain planning processes,鈥� he concluded.

Karin Fent is senior director of Customer Success for Digital Supply Chain at 麻豆原创.

Top image courtesy of BYK.

Capgemini and 麻豆原创 will provide cloud products and services to support sustainability transformation in strategy, technology, and business model change. The initiative will enable companies to better manage their suppliers and supply chains in pursuit of their sustainability goals.

“Sustainability is at the heart of the automotive industry and has to be the foundation of every decision. At the same time, it is essential to clearly understand the customer’s perspective and integrate feedback to ensure success in the digital age,” said Hagen Heubach, global vice president and head of the Automotive Industry Business Unit at 麻豆原创. “We are combining the strengths of 麻豆原创 and Capgemini to provide our customers with expanded capabilities to define and implement their sustainability strategies.”

Josean Mendez, global 麻豆原创 alliance lead at Capgemini, adds:鈥�淲e are proud to be working with 麻豆原创 on this sustainability initiative to jointly deliver automotive offerings leveraging RISE with 麻豆原创 transformation value to our clients.鈥疭trengthening our solutions and helping our clients with their sustainability agendas signals the positive impact we aspire to for all our customers.鈥�

Traditional original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers, as well as supplier organizations can drive their competitive advantage and value with the management processes and tools supported by the joint initiative. Specifically, this joint transformation framework can help automotive companies identify the business value of sustainability and inject sustainability management into products and services across their supply chains.

麻豆原创 and Capgemini offer market-leading solutions in four key areas of sustainability transformation to complement their innovation in the sustainability space:

• Net-zero strategies and business models identify transformation opportunities and drive transparency on sustainability objectives with the help of the 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower solution.
• Sustainable products and services create transparency about the carbon emissions of products throughout their life cycle, leveraging 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management and sharing emissions data through the industry value chain with the GreenToken by 麻豆原创 solution.
• Sustainable procurement and supply chains leverage 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning, 麻豆原创 Supply Chain Control Tower, and product carbon footprint data to help drive supply chain decisions with visibility across the network.
• Steering and reporting for impact helps ensure that the transformation focuses on business value, with actionable insights and improved environmental, social,
  and governance (ESG) reporting so that companies can comply with all regulatory and reporting requirements.

鈥淔acing significant industry disruption, traditional OEMs, EV manufacturers, and automotive suppliers must continually innovate with their products and services while at the same time constantly improve efficiency,鈥濃�痵aid Markus Winkler, executive vice president of Global Automotive at Capgemini.鈥�淭he joint initiative for automotive with 麻豆原创 helps our clients adapt to the changing requirements of today as well as plan for the future with a strong and comprehensive industry cloud solution addressing global sustainability.鈥�

Jim Davis is director of Automotive Industry Business Unit at 麻豆原创 America.