Case Study: Sun-Maid Growers achieves improved forecast accuracy and stabilized production with John Galt Solutions

Sun-Maid Grows Planning Process with Atlas Planning Suite

Sun-Maid Growers, a century-old cooperative of California raisin and dried fruit farmers, faced challenges from a rapidly cycling product line, heavy promotional demand, and highly seasonal sales that distorted historical patterns. Manual integration of new products consumed significant time, partners had limited visibility into forecasts, and production and inventory plans swung widely—so Sun-Maid engaged John Galt Solutions and its Atlas Planning Suite to address these issues.

John Galt Solutions implemented the Atlas Planning Suite to isolate promotions from historical data, automate new-product integration, and apply advanced statistical forecasting tailored to Sun-Maid’s high seasonality. The result was significantly improved forecast accuracy, stabilized and more cost-effective production and inventory plans, reduced forecasting effort, and stronger credibility of the planning process across the company.

Sun-Maid Growers

John Slinkard

VP of Supply Chain