Case Study: Largest Roofing Material Manufacturer achieves more efficient planning and profitability analysis with Revelwood and IBM Planning Analytics

Largest Roofing Material Manufacturer - Customer Case Study

Revelwood helped the Largest Roofing Material Manufacturer, one of the nation’s biggest roofing materials producers with nearly 30 plants, address the complexity of operational planning across sales, logistics, manufacturing, operations, and finance. The company needed a more sophisticated way to manage volume, demand, and capacity planning while also controlling high shipping costs for large, heavy products and determining where specific products should be manufactured to better serve high-demand regions. Revelwood used IBM Planning Analytics, along with Revelwood Lightspeed and Revelwood Performance Toolkit, to support this effort.

Revelwood implemented multiple connected planning models for volume planning, allocations, and plant-level capacity planning, giving the company real-time visibility into production rates, shift performance, under- and over-capacity conditions, and product costs. The solution also helped standardize cost calculations, support smarter purchasing decisions, and roll operational data into finance for profitability analysis. As a result, the manufacturer can now answer critical questions about plant efficiency, shifting production between plants, and product mix decisions, improving decision-making across the business.