Case Study: Shimano North America achieves improved inventory visibility and agile forecasting with Netstock

Shimano’s North American bicycle business rides with Netstock

Shimano North America Bicycle Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of high-end cycling components, faced limited visibility into production and replenishment across roughly 60,000 items and could not respond quickly to changing customer demand. To address this gap they evaluated solutions and selected Netstock’s cloud-based demand planning software to improve forecasting, inventory optimization and multi-level planning across channels and geographies.

Netstock integrated with Shimano’s Oracle ERP in about a month and delivered attribute-based, scalable planning that boosted forecast accuracy, optimized inventory levels and improved placement and production timing. The company gained immediate agility—making channel-specific planning improvements for Amazon within a week, quickly adding key customers or hierarchies without IT intervention—and achieved measurable improvements in inventory visibility and replenishment across all distribution channels thanks to Netstock.

Shimano

Rick Barrosa

Sr. Manager of Supply Chain