Case Study: Georgia Boot achieves faster, more accurate demand forecasting and quicker production decisions with Demand Solutions

Pulling Forecasting Up by the Bootstraps

Georgia Boot, a producer of roughly two million pairs of work, safety and branded boots annually, needed to manage very different demand patterns across multiple divisions and retail channels and to eliminate error-prone, manual forecasting. The company selected Demand Solutions Forecast Management to mirror their existing processes, support forecasting for new and licensed items, and provide a more reliable, automated demand-planning platform.

Georgia Boot loaded three years of sales and production history into Demand Solutions, ran the system in parallel with manual methods until trusted, and adopted a monthly collaborative review process that typically results in ten percent or smaller forecast adjustments. Demand Solutions has helped the company move rapidly on new-brand demand (for example, Hummer), automated PO generation and flagged production issues after adding Demand Solutions Requirements Planning, reduced manual calculation errors, and kept executive exception reviews to only minutes each.

Georgia Boot

Bill Landry

Georgia Boot