Case Study: NZ Safety Blackwoods achieves 27% improvement in delivery performance and faster, more accurate forecasting with Logility

NZ Safety Blackwoods uses advanced analytics for planning and decision-making

NZ Safety Blackwoods, a 500-person New Zealand supplier of industrial safety equipment, uniforms and training, consolidated three businesses into a single, functional organization and needed faster, more reliable insight across sales, margins and inventory. Their legacy reporting relied on SQL extracts and spreadsheets, creating slow, IT-dependent forecasting and limited visibility into root causes.

They implemented Logility’s advanced analytics with an agile, user-focused rollout, giving sales, merchandising and operations self-service dashboards and scheduled reporting for day-to-day and strategic decisions. The platform improved pricing and margin visibility, accelerated sales planning and budgeting, enhanced supplier rebate tracking, and lifted Delivery In Full On Time by 27% (from 66% to 93%), while enabling more accurate forecasting and consolidated KPIs across centers.

NZ Safety Blackwoods

Yvonne Boersma

Head of Finance