Case Study: Zijerveld achieves 15% waste reduction and stable stock planning with Slimstock Slim4

Zijerveld - Customer Case study

Zijerveld Cheese, a supplier of cheese and cheese concepts to supermarket chains, specialty shops and wholesalers with some 2,500 varieties (up to 13,000 SKUs after cutting and packaging), faced intense availability and best‑before pressures and received almost no customer forecasts. Their home‑grown planning tool could no longer cope, so they turned to Slimstock and implemented the Slim4 (Cheese Slim4) inventory optimisation solution.

Slimstock’s Slim4 stabilised planning and enabled company‑wide S&OP, so purchasing, commerce and finance now work from the same forecasts; this improved collaboration and let planners focus on exceptions. The implementation reduced shrinkage by 15%, improved availability, and set the stage for further gains such as finer order‑quantity tuning to lower storage and handling costs.

Zijerveld

Marco van Schadewijk

Logistics analyst