Case Study: Lippert Components achieves enterprise-wide supply chain visibility and faster decision-making with Kinaxis RapidResponse

RapidResponse gave Lippert the ability to see and connect hundreds of siloed data points

Lippert Components, a global supplier of components to RV, housing and adjacent industries, faced growing pains from two decades of acquisitions: disparate systems, siloed data and poor demand visibility that caused excessive safety stock, stock-outs, expedited orders and lost sales. In 2014 Kristen LeBaron was charged with creating a cohesive, demand-driven supply chain culture and needed a planning platform to unify people, processes and systems across many facilities.

Implementing Kinaxis RapidResponse gave Lippert a single, connected view of hundreds of data points, enabling fast custom reporting, daily virtualized historical demand, and rapid full‑indented BOM and where‑used analysis. The platform improved forecasting and cost/margin modeling (including tariff phase‑ins), exposed and fixed data problems quickly, and expanded use across engineering, production, sales and finance—reducing decision latency, lowering inventory risk and accelerating supply‑chain collaboration.

Lippert Components

Kristen LeBaron

Director of Supply Chain