Case Study: Graham Packaging achieves millions in cost savings and improved supplier quality with Longview

Quality Dashboard & Supplier Scorecard Eliminate Cost & Drive Quality at Graham Packaging

Graham Packaging, a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of more than 20 billion blow-molded containers annually across 81 plants, relied on hundreds of suppliers to serve major consumer brands. The company struggled with fragmented quality data—locked in SAP, spreadsheets and other systems—which made it difficult to track supplier performance, quantify the cost of defects, and produce timely, consistent reports without heavy IT support.

Graham implemented an arcplan-powered Quality Dashboard and Supplier Scorecard to consolidate SAP, Hyperion and other sources into an intuitive, drillable front end. The solution eliminated spreadsheets, standardized supplier scoring, revealed true supplier costs, improved vendor negotiations, removed sub‑par suppliers, boosted delivered quality and saved the company millions through faster, fact-based decision making.

Graham Packaging

Tara Holloway

Manager Global Supplier Quality, Graham Packaging