Case Study: Major Chemical Company achieves 20% throughput increase and 95% on-time shipments with Arkieva

Using Supply Chain Planning to Increase Available Capacity

Major Chemical Company was facing roughly 10% annual sales growth across multiple international plants and a fragmented planning environment. Local capacity planning, sequential demand allocation, frequent costly production changeovers, and siloed data left the business reactive and unable to determine where or when to add capacity. They engaged Arkieva to apply supply chain planning software and services to better use existing capacity and inform investment decisions.

Arkieva centralized all planning data, gave planners full access, quantified product changeover costs, and built a quantitative model to balance supply and demand across plants. Within 12 months Arkieva’s solution cut schedule change requests by more than 30%, increased throughput by 20%, improved on-time shipments from 80% to over 95%, reduced cash flow cycle time to 9%, lowered raw material inventory by 2%, and kept shipping costs flat despite the higher volume.