Supply Chain Success story
Infor delivers recipe
for supply chain
success at
AB World Foods
B World Foods, a division of
As part of an integrated
A
Associated British Foods (ABF), business planning
has completed the first phase
strategy, AB World Foods
deployment of Infor Supply
will use Infor SCM
solutions to define the
Chain Management (SCM). Infor
demand, inventory
SCM Demand Planning, Infor SCM Inventory
and replenishment
Planner and Infor SCM Replenishment Planner requirements of its
will help AB World Foods build a foundation
global operations.
for managing its global supply chain, enabling
the food manufacturer to predict and shape
customer demand with greater accuracy. Brookes reflected that the
As part of an integrated business planning sales & marketing teams
strategy, AB World Foods will use Infor SCM used to be somewhat out of
solutions to define the demand, inventory step with the supply chain
and replenishment requirements of its department. However, he
global operations. This will include products explains that by integrating
manufactured by AB World Foods as well demand planning with AB
as stock manufactured by third parties. World Foods’ stock plans, it
has significantly improved
Prior to the implementation of Infor SCM, sales and risk reporting. This
divisions of AB World Foods such as G Costa has served to bring the two
used spreadsheets based on retrospective teams together and has
sales performance over the previous two improved communications
months. This process provided a flat forecast between the disciplines.
of demand and did not take into consideration
the different demand patterns for various have already consolidated our enterprise Next step
types of products. Consequently, AB World applications onto Infor ERP BPCS and this Looking forward, AB World Foods plans to use
Foods suffered expensive overstocking of new demand forecast will help manage a lot Infor SCM to improve supplier relationship
some brands and inadequate supplies of of our business. Given that around 75 per cent management and develop strategic demand
others. AB World Foods chose Infor SCM of our costs are supply chain related, that is a forecasts for the next 12 and 24 months. This
following an extensive review of the market. huge responsibility.” Throughout the phased will help to guide stock replenishment action.
AB World Foods was impressed by Infor’s implementation, Brookes points out that the Brookes concluded: “Infor SCM is going to
professional services team, and Infor SCM company has seen some major benefits. be more than software within AB World Foods;
scored highest on the basis of functionality “In the case of inventory planning, we have it is going to be the basis of our supply chain
and a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). already increased our service levels from processes and associated systems. Those
91 per cent to 96 per cent. Recently, we have systems will in turn define our approach to
Consolidation surpassed our target of 98.5 per cent. In a Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP)
Gary Brookes, head of supply chain at AB addition we have reduced our stockholding of project we have planned. What we have
World Foods, commented: “AB World Foods finished goods by approximately 20 per cent – seen so far has already given us a great
is building its supply chain around Infor. We a financial saving of over £2 million.” deal of confidence.” circlesolid
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