Success story Supply Chain
Making more accurate promises to customers. improvements in supply chain visibility have
Greater visibility
Reducing warehouse inventory by around also enabled the company to introduce Deutsche Edelstahlwerke is confident that its
20 per cent. ‘reserved capacity’ to allow strategic use of advanced SCM solutions and workflows
Reducing pre-material inventory by around customers to place orders within a shorter can put it at the forefront of its industry. “When
5 per cent. lead time. Now, the sales team can offer more I compare our systems to those of other
Improving delivery performance by up to flexible and competitive contracts to attract companies, I see that we have much greater
10 per cent. and retain high-volume customers. Deutsche visibility into our production and can make
Edelstahlwerke plans to expand its use of reliable promises to our customers,”
Integration creates competitive i2’s solution for vendor-managed inventory, concluded Heidrich. circlesolid
advantage which is currently delivering services for four
In 2006, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke acquired key Deutsche Edelstahlwerke customers.
two new steel production facilities, doubling its “Customers who subscribe to this service Almost every new step in Deutsche
number of sites. Soon afterwards it began to save time and gain a reliable supply, while we
Edelstahlwerke’s supply chain
roll out i2 solutions to these two new facilities, have the opportunity to build a strong long-
transformation has made a positive
impact on the business and paved
mirroring the systems at its two existing sites. term relationship with them,” said Heidrich.
the way for continued development.
“We recognised that it would be advantageous
to have one planning solution for the entire
business,” commented Heidrich. “We transfer
material between sites, so we need to be able
to control material movements and processes
across the whole company.”
The integrated use of i2 solutions across all of
its four production sites has given the company
much better visibility into its capacity and
resources, as well as a better understanding
of its due-date performance. The
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