Case Study: Factory Motor Parts achieves optimized inventory and cuts forecast time from 7 days to 13 hours with Pure Storage

Pure Storage Accelerates Critical Manhattan Associates For Factory Motor Parts

Factory Motor Parts (FMP), a nationwide auto-parts distributor based in Eagan, MN, struggled to run Manhattan Associates’ demand-forecasting and inventory-optimization software against 2.5 million SKUs across 120 locations. Their legacy spinning-disk storage dramatically underperformed—causing day-long queries, ERP timeouts and a forecasting process that would have taken about a week—so FMP needed faster, more reliable storage to support timely, accurate inventory decisions.

FMP installed a Pure Storage FlashArray (5.5 TB) and immediately saw dramatic gains: initial peaks of 70,000 IOPS and the forecast update now running at more than 130,000 IOPS, completing in 13 hours versus seven days. The new performance enabled per-SKU, per-location (multi-echelon) forecasting, reduced inventory on hand while broadening product availability at all 120 sites, delivered a 4:1 data-reduction rate, and yielded savings in rack space, power and IT effort—giving the company confidence to add more databases and workloads without extra capital expense.

Factory Motor Parts

Jason Strom

IT Manager