Customer Stories

A Consumer Products Company

→ Like many of its competitors, ConsumerCo is seeking to move closer to its customers and achieve service level excellence without skyrocketing inventories.

ADI

→ ADI faced an ambitious project to transform its entire logistics network. Using the ToolsGroup solution, the company dramatically improved the performance of its supply chain.

Alessi

→ Alessi needed a planning process to guarantee product availability and consistently fill orders in a timely manner – a stock-mix optimization process.

Allopneus

→ Allopneus.com Optimizes Inventory and Improves Competitiveness with ToolsGroup.

Amara

→ Amara, facing a challenging MRO environment, sought to reduce MRO inventory and stock obsolescence while improving customer service levels. These goals were achieved with SO99+.

Amplifon

→ Amplifon manages a highly complex extended supply chain. Gradually, they lost full oversight of their inventory. With SO99+, we helped them gain complete visibility again.

Ansaldo Energia

→ Ansaldo Spare Parts Service team was faced with an increasingly competitive market and changing business environment. We helped them avoid late deliveries and unpredictable emergencies.

Aston Martin

→ The new demands posed by Aston Martin’s international client base prompted their board to raise targets for first-time availability by 2% without raising inventory.

Bellota

→ Bellota’s supply chain was challenged with increasing SKUs. To improve performance, they introduced a new KPI: availability rate. Now it needed a tool to deliver it.

Boise

→ Boise struggled with long transit times and idle inventory. Their goal? Reducing stock by 10% while improving on-time delivery. With SO99+, these goals were accomplished.

BP Castrol

→ The BP Castrol team was faced with reactive supply chains caused by inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable forecasts. The goal was improving KPI’s and increasing service levels.

Cipla Medpro

→ Cipla Medpro found it increasingly difficult to maintain forecast accuracy, but now has an automated and reliable supply chain.

Delphi Technologies

→ Delphi’s supply chain team was under pressure to lower inventory and achieve high service levels. Within a few months, their process was revamped.

ECommerce Home Goods Retailer

→ It was taking this Internet retailer roughly 100 hours to create a forecast and replenishment orders. Thanks to us, this is no longer the case.

Eurofred

→ Eurofred was challenged with planning and optimizing its complex supply chain in order to improve customer service levels and manage stock levels.

Franke

→ Franke’s tremendous growth resulted in a complex, non-optimal supply chain network. ToolsGroup’s probability—based forecasting made a huge difference for the company.

Garden Planter Co.

→ This decorative garden company experienced an unsustainable inventory increase . We helped reduce their obsolescence and inventory by 30%.

Global Eyewear Co.

→ This company had the challenge of intelligently managing inventory to maintain high service levels but avoid excess stock, so they sought the help of SO99+.

Granarolo

→ Granarolo required optimized inventory management and complete visibility in an environment characterized by short shelf life and promotional pressures.

Grupo Gallo

→ Gallo was faced with a changing business environment, both internally and externally. They concluded that it was time for their supply chain to undergo change.

Gruppo Giovannini

→ The electronics distribution business is competitive and Gruppo Giovannini needed to make optimal trade-offs between working capital and service levels.

Harrington

→ Harrington Plastics ditches forecasting guesswork and improves network integration and visibility.

Hero

→ Hero Spain faced the challenge of achieving substantial and sustained improvements in its supply chain KPIs, product availability, average stock levels and forecast accuracy.

Höganäs

→ Hoganas’s demand varied heavily by location so their management team decided to migrate into a more reliable system with a goal of decreasing inventory by 10%.

KIKO Milano

→ KIKO’s dramatic growth created greater complexity in a highly competitive and constantly evolving cosmetics market. SO99+ came to the rescue.

Kronans Apotek

→ Kronans Apotek’s could not properly manage varying seasonal patterns, frequent product replacements and new pharmacy launches. SO99+ came to the rescue.

Lennox

→ Lennox Residential Heating and Cooling faced the challenge of managing a North American distribution network enlargement while simultaneously transitioning to a hub-and-spoke model.

Lubinski

→ Lubinski faced a challenging environment of managing over 20K slow moving items in their warehouse. With the help of SO99+, they saw decreased stock and more.

Melitta

→ Melitta needed a solution to support their sales and operations planning process to see more efficient management and increased statistical forecast accuracy.

Mitsubishi Electric

→ Mitsubishi Electric Europe needed to get inventory levels back under control. The company was seeking to reduce inventory while achieving equal or higher service levels.

Mohawk

→ Mohawk’s SO99+ deployment supports collaborative goal-setting and decision-making by giving players a transparent view of trustworthy data.

Moleskine

→ Moleskine had to manage supply chain planning across increasing brand complexity. They needed a demand forecasting tool that would increase service levels and reduce working capital.

Multi-National Coffee Bar Company

→ This company’s real-time sales data wasn’t being used for replenishment. Because there was no system in place, the team relied on manual spreadsheet based estimates.

Multi-national Food Company

→ Multi-national food company needed a reliable forecasting tool capable of predicting lift to baseline demand from trade promotions and media events. SO99+ came to the rescue.

NHS

→ NHS was functioning off a sub-optimal process that could not respond to the future needs of its customers. SO99+ reduced their delivery cost and waste.

Nordic Food Company

→ The company struggled to balance the conflicting demands of high availability and capital tied to inventory. They turned to ToolsGroup Demand Planning and Inventory Optimization.

O2

→ In this era of rapid evolution in telecommunications, O2 recognized the need to evolve the way it does business and the systems that support it.

Piaggio

→ Piaggio was faced with an abundance of backorders and was dealing with a high level of dead stock. With SO99+, their service level improved to 90+%.

Pilkington Automotive (NSG Group)

→ Pilkington Automotive was faced with unpredictable demand, increasing SKUs and a diverse range of customers. This drove them to build a more competitive supply chain.

Polaris

→ Polaris's powersports supply chain is full speed ahead with automated planning.

Pompea

→ Pompea’s business became increasingly complex and it was challenged to build the right inventory. Their labor-intensive process was no longer cutting it. Something needed to change.

RAJA

→ Rajapack was challenged by high-value slow movers, difficulty in monitoring behavior of 4,000+ products, service level instability and stock-out penalties. That's where we came in.

Ratioform

→ 90% of Ratioform's inventory items were in the long-tail making it hard to balance costs with service level . SO99+ came to the rescue.

Repsol

→ Repsol wanted to start a project to improve product service levels and knew it would not be easy, that’s where we came in.

Shamir Optical

→ For a company that makes eyeglass lenses, Shamir Optical had a visibility problem – at least when it came to inventory. That’s why we stepped in.

SKF

→ Digital transformation is tough for any firm, but very tough for a $9 billion industrial manufacturer. SKF is currently on a journey towards this transformation.

Spar Gran Canaria

→ Spar Gran Canaria faced new direct to POS distribution restrictions from suppliers trying to contain costs and needed to change its stock planning process.

Sports Car Co.

→ Sports car company’s management set a challenging target of raising the spare parts service level from 70% to 90% in two years, without increasing inventory levels.

The Absolut Company

→ Absolut was rapidly growing, causing complexities to surface. With forecasting and production planning being performed by one planner, they needed the help of SO99+.

Thule

→ Highly seasonal and intermittent demand drove the company to seek a centralized, automated solution to combat plummeting planner productivity and service levels that dipped below 80%.

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