Case Study: Johnson Controls achieves a unified digital thread across 14 sites and 800+ suppliers with LeanDNA

Johnson Controls and LeanDNA Build a Digital Thread to Connect 14 Sites and 800+ Global Suppliers

Johnson Controls, a global leader in building technology and services operating across 14 sites and hundreds of suppliers, faced fragmented data across dozens of ERPs and static spreadsheets that prevented a single view of inventory and production readiness. To strengthen its digital thread and gain actionable insights, Johnson Controls implemented LeanDNA’s cloud-based platform to harmonize data, improve visibility, and support operational decision-making.

LeanDNA connected JCI’s sites, systems, and 800+ suppliers, normalizing currencies and master data, automating daily reports, and enabling supplier collaboration and shortage-management workbenches. As a result, LeanDNA helped Johnson Controls reduce days of inventory by 12% in the first year, improve supplier commitment visibility by roughly 25–28%, and replace time‑consuming manual reports (minutes per SKU) with instant, centralized analytics that speed decision-making and free teams for higher‑value work.

Johnson Controls

Mandeep Sahota

Vice President of Operations