Case Study: a leading e-bikes manufacturing company reduces forecast dependence and improves inventory management with Bluecrux

Improving supply order quantities and reducing long-term forecast dependence through a new supply plan

Bluecrux worked with a leading e-bikes manufacturing company based in the Netherlands and active in Belgium, Germany, and Austria. The company faced challenges from outsourced manufacturing with limited capacity and long lead times, heavy dependence on long-term forecasting, and high working capital tied up in stock that often did not match short-term demand.

Bluecrux implemented a new supply planning approach with long-term supply commitments at the product-family level, short-term SKU allocation, ABC XYZ-based safety stock calculations, exception-based planning, and scenario what-if analysis. As a result, the company reduced its dependence on long-term forecasts, reacted faster to short-term demand changes, improved safety stock management, and gained better visibility into exceptions and scenario comparisons.