Case Study: a European family business achieves agile S&OP and improved planning with Bluecrux

a European family business streamlines S&OP across 22 factories with Bluecrux

The customer, a European family business passionate about food, faced challenges with an unclear definition of roles between its central and local planning teams, alongside significant gaps in its demand planning, supply planning, and S&OP processes. Bluecrux was engaged to support the company's bakery products division.

Bluecrux designed an agile S&OP process and implemented a supporting tool. This solution provided the customer with an aligned design for improved planning, insights on forecast accuracy, and optimized inventory. The results included a clearer new role mapping aligned with the business processes and the set-up of optimized lot size parameters.