Case Study: StarKist achieves 94% faster planning with Board

Intelligent Supply and Demand Planning at StarKist Driving a 94% reduction in planning time by aligning production and finance

StarKist, a U.S. seafood and chicken company, was struggling to manage supply, demand, and financial planning across spreadsheets, SAP-based production data, and hundreds of accounts and SKUs. The manual process was slow, error-prone, and made it hard for StarKist to get real-time visibility or analyze forecast changes, new products, and discontinued SKUs. Board, using its Enterprise Planning Platform, was brought in to replace the fragmented planning approach.

Board implemented a cloud-based, unified supply and demand planning solution that connected production, demand planning, and finance in a single source of truth. The results were significant: planning time dropped from about 16 hours to less than one hour, a reduction of over 94%, while transparency, collaboration, efficiency, and decision-making improved. Board also delivered the initial solution in six months, helping StarKist automate aggregations and forecasting and reduce reliance on spreadsheets.

StarKist

Ted Wong

Senior Manager of Demand Planning and Financial Analysis