Case Study: British Engineering Services achieves faster, accurate capacity planning with Bedford Consulting and Anaplan

Capacity plan is ready on day one of the month for British Engineering Services

British Engineering Services (BES) is a provider of engineering testing, inspection and consultancy services with a remote field force of more than 400 engineers. As the business grew, BES was managing medium- to long-term capacity planning across more than a dozen spreadsheets, making the process slow, manual, and difficult to keep current. The planning team was spending around 50% of the month building the report, leaving little time for analysis or “what-if” scenario planning.

BES partnered with Bedford Consulting and Anaplan to implement a capacity planning solution that pulls data from five import sources into a single, traceable model. With the new process, the capacity plan is available on calendar day one instead of day ten, giving the team much faster access to accurate, up-to-date information. Bedford Consulting helped BES gain better visibility, real-time modelling, and stronger confidence in the data, enabling faster decision-making across operations, management, and investors.

British Engineering Services

Robert Whaley

Business Analytics Leader