Case Study: Bio-Rad Laboratories achieves unified company-wide S&OP and higher forecast accuracy with Kinaxis

Precision Planning Pays Off Kinaxis Optimizes S&OP for a Leading Life Sciences Organization

Bio‑Rad Laboratories, a Hercules, California–based life sciences and clinical diagnostics company with 18 global manufacturing sites, over 7,700 employees and $2.7B in revenue, faced a fragmented sales and operations planning (S&OP) process. Teams relied on ERP, Excel and email, lacked a continuous connection between supply chain, manufacturing, sales and finance, and needed better forecasting, collaboration and a unified end‑to‑end global supply chain.

Bio‑Rad selected and implemented Kinaxis Maestro (with IBM and Kinaxis professional services) as its company‑wide S&OP foundation, using native task flows and a life‑science package to standardize processes and replace spreadsheets and legacy systems. The platform delivered higher forecast accuracy across statistical, consensus and constrained forecasts, provided robust measurement and visibility across global sites, and improved team collaboration and adoption of modern planning tools.

Bio-Rad Laboratories

Steven Caron

IT Director