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.

Absolut

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

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.

Amplifon

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

Aston Martin

Driving away with improved service levels and reduced 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 the ToolsGroup solution, these goals were accomplished.

BorgWarner

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

Cerealis

Food company transforms supply chain complexity and volatility into better service and healthy inventory 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%.

Gaviota

The Automated Sun & Shutter Specialists Tackle Complexity and Break Down Silos for Improved Operations, Higher Service Levels, and Substantial Business Benefits

Global Energy Company

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

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 the ToolsGroup solution.

Global Footwear Retailer

By implementing allocation and replenishment software, this global footwear retailer sold 2 Million more units on Black Friday than the previous year – paying for the entire project in one day.

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.

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%.

Leading Automotive Manufacturer

This manufacturer was faced with an abundance of backorders and was dealing with a high level of dead stock. With the ToolsGroup solution, their service level improved to 90+%.

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.

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 the ToolsGroup solution 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 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.

Multi-National Olive Oil Company

This business improved its product availability while reducing inventory and costs

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.

Pharmaceutical Company

Saving Lives through Improved Supply Chain Planning

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.

Power Generation Company

This power company's Spare Parts Service team was faced with an increasingly competitive market and changing business environment. We helped them avoid late deliveries and unpredictable emergencies.

Ratioform

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

Schoenberger

Schoenberger Achieves Eight-Figure Inventory Reduction with Transformative Software Solution

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.

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.

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%.