Case Study: Stanley Black & Decker achieves 8% inventory cost reduction and streamlined global parts planning with Baxter Planning's Prophet

How SBD was able to reduce inventory costs by an average of 8% across 15 regional distribution centers and improve execution to plan by an average of 6% across 4 regions

Stanley Black & Decker (SBD) is a Fortune 500 manufacturer of industrial tools, hardware, and home improvement products with operations in over 100 countries. Its sprawling, segmented supply chain made it difficult to standardize planning and reporting across regions and business units, creating challenges in managing nearly 100,000 parts across 20 distribution centers and more than 100 service centers worldwide.

SBD deployed Prophet by Baxter as the global planning standard through a phased SaaS implementation and hands-on mentoring to automate forecasting, target-stock optimization, and replenishment. The solution reduced transportation costs by cutting backorders and expedited shipments, lowered inventory by an average of 8% across 15 regional distribution centers, improved execution to inventory plan by an average of 6% across four regions, sped tool-repair turnaround, and freed planners from tactical tasks to focus on strategic projects.

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