Case Study: Sturm Foods achieves 75% reduction in excess inventory and 40% lower inventory dollars with Demand Solutions

Sturm Foods gets a handle on inventory control with Demand Solutions

Sturm Foods, a century-old private-label food manufacturer, needed to move from ad hoc, hindsight-based ordering to vendor-managed inventory when a major customer in 2001 required VMI. The company’s forecasting was only about 40% accurate, so Sturm Foods engaged Demand Solutions to implement VMI-capable planning tools, initially deploying DS Forecast Management and DS Requirements Planning.

Demand Solutions’ suite was rolled out across Sturm’s customer base and expanded with DS Requirements Planning, DS Rough Cut (DS RC), DS Feedback and DS View, supported by training and weekly cross-functional reviews. As a result, Sturm reduced obsolete and excess inventory by 75%, cut inventory dollars by 40%, improved forecast accuracy from ~40% to ~65%, and strengthened supplier collaboration and production planning using Demand Solutions.

Sturm Foods

Sandi Spick

Forecast Manager