Driving Agility: Enhancing Demand, Supply & S&OP with Scenario Planning

The customer

Miba, a global leader in advanced component manufacturing, operates in over thirty countries, driving innovation and operational excellence across its supply chain. The company employs thousands of people, with a skilled planning team, and serves multiple core markets across numerous sites worldwide.

Through its partnership with Bluecrux, Miba is establishing an end-to-end planning process, supported by Anaplan. This includes standardized planning processes that enhance demand-supply balancing across various markets, as well as simplified and automated workflows that allow planners to focus on value-adding activities.

  • Challenges

    • Complex bill of material with various routing options
    • Low forecast accuracy
    • Different capacity planning processes per site – lack of standardization
    • Optimization for production & capacity across a multi-step production process across various production sites is lacking
    • Difficult to make proactive S&OP decisions
    • Cumbersome manual processes
    • Lack of global visibility across the supply chain network 
  • Solutions

    • Standardized planning processes
    • Enhanced demand-supply balancing across the various markets
    • Simplified and automated processes enabling planners to focus on value adding activities
    • Improved forecast accuracy through better baseline generation, collaboration and KPI tracking
    • Single source of truth within a unified planning platform
    • Detailed capacity planning ensuring visibility for the central Supply Chain team on the network
  • Results

    • Exception-based driven Demand Planning process

    • Scenario-driven S&OP dashboards supporting the monthly meetings

    • First steps towards creating global end-to-end visibility from a demand, capacity & inventory perspective

    • Detailed capacity planning capabilities to simulate with different capacity drivers

    • Tracking of KPI’s & versions from a demand & supply perspective to track forecast accuracy & plan adherence

The Bluecrux team guided us through our SIOP journey with their deep expertise in Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Anaplan. The team’s collaborative work style and unwavering determination to ensure the success of the implementation were truly impressive.
Stefan Bonigut
Production Unit Manager Composite at Miba

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