Case Study: Lush achieves better demand, inventory, and financial planning with Arkieva

Lush speeds management reporting and forecasting with Arkieva

Lush, a North American retailer of handmade cosmetics with over 250 locations, faced challenges due to its year-over-year growth. The company relied on manual, error-prone Excel sheets for planning, which led to data integrity issues and a cumbersome process for updating increasingly large files. To address this, Lush turned to Arkieva for a more flexible and collaborative demand planning tool.

Arkieva implemented its fully integrated One-Plan S&OP solution, which included its Demand Planner, Inventory Planner, and Financial Planner modules. The results provided Lush with automated forecasting at a detailed product level and greater inventory visibility to create optimal stock levels. This improved their materials planning and allowed them to quickly determine how increased demand affects revenue. Arkieva's solution was described as a "big game-changer," with reporting that could be done on the fly instead of taking days to generate.

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