Case Study: Watts Water Technologies reduces inventory and improves supply chain planning with Accelytics and Anaplan

Watts Water Technologies reduces inventory in 16 weeks with Accelytics

Watts Water Technologies, a global leader in water solutions, faced significant challenges due to its complex technology landscape, which included 24 different ERP systems. This disjointed environment, heavily reliant on manual tools like Excel, led to labor-intensive, rigid demand planning processes and poor data integrity. To maintain service levels, the company carried excessive inventory, risking obsolescence. Watts partnered with the vendor Accelytics to address these issues by implementing an Anaplan solution for supply chain planning.

Accelytics utilized its proprietary Accelerated Approach Methodology to implement a new Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and Inventory Optimization solution on the Anaplan platform within just sixteen weeks. This integrated solution streamlined processes, allowing planners to act strategically. As a result, Watts transitioned from demand planning to demand management, reducing its working capital investment in inventory while simultaneously improving customer service for its major retail and wholesale partners.

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