Case Study: McBride strengthens S&OP and capacity planning with Arkieva

McBride boosts 18-month capacity planning with Arkieva

McBride, Europe's leading provider of Private Label Household and Personal Care products, faced challenges in standardizing its S&OP process and optimizing capacity planning across 18 manufacturing sites. The company was spending excessive time on manual data manipulation between two SAP platforms, which limited strategic analysis. To address this, McBride selected vendor Arkieva to implement its integrated S&OP solution and Rough Cut Capacity Planner.

Arkieva's solution provided a fully integrated planning tool that standardized the S&OP process and created an 18-month visual capacity plan. This enabled McBride to identify risks and opportunities quickly and seek cost-effective ways to balance demand and supply. The key results included a significant reduction in manual data work, allowing planners to focus on value-added analysis, and the establishment of a consistent, group-wide S&OP process. Arkieva's tools helped McBride achieve better asset utilization and a more balanced plan.

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