Case Study: YKK achieves cost and time savings and improved visibility with John Galt Solutions' Atlas Planning Suite

YKK Increases Efficiency and Improves Visibility with Atlas Planning Suite

YKK (U.S.A.) Inc., the Georgia-based maker of sewn product fasteners and attachment machines with more than 1,100 employees, faced scalability limits from its existing forecasting software—an oppressive $70,000 annual license and about 16 hours per month spent on data formatting and setup. Seeking a fast, low-maintenance demand planning solution with strong hierarchy tools and a more reasonable licensing model, YKK selected John Galt Solutions’ Atlas Planning Suite.

John Galt Solutions implemented the Atlas Planning Suite, including its Demand Management Engine and on-the-fly hierarchy, plus nightly ODBC data loads to eliminate manual formatting. The change saved YKK up to five man-hours per month on formatting, avoided an estimated $50,000 in annual license fees, improved visibility into potential supply-chain issues, and enabled manufacturing and planning to share common data views—boosting collaboration and overall efficiency.

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