Success Stories

Big Lots – where speed equals savings.

With Logility, Big Lots now has access to granular level data from each store to arm its allocation analysts and management team with information to make the most strategic and profitable buys and align inventory levels with sales demand.

Big Lots Inc., through its subsidiaries, is a unique, non-traditional, discount retailer operating more than 1,400 stores in 48 states with product assortments in the merchandise categories of food consumables, furniture and home décor, seasonal goods, electronics and accessories.

Big Lots needed a better way to allocate inventory specific to each of its 1,400+ retail locations to further accelerate inventory turns, align inventory levels to sales demand while matching local preferences, and managing thousands of active SKUs across a broad portfolio.

Industry

Consumer Goods

Challenge

Managing Thousands of SKUs at 1,400 Retail Locations

Benefits/Results

Significant improvement in inventory turnover and enable processing of 50 million store/SKU transactions per evening.

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Logility embeds complex logic in a simple-to-use solution. We have seen improvement in planning and our ability to adjust to our customers’ behaviors. This helps us stay ahead and strategically plan our allocation needs.

Inventory Planning and Optimization

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Ashley Furniture designs the perfect order with inventory optimization.

Logility has helped Ashley Furniture right-size inventory across its global supply chain network and reduce safety stock.

Ashley Furniture is the third largest home furniture manufacturing company providing case goods, mattresses, upholstered goods and home accessories that are sold by more than 6,000 retail partners.

Customer expectations to get what they want, when they want it, have never been higher – and that extends to the furniture industry. To fuel continued growth, Ashley Furniture needed to increase its already high customer service levels by ensuring rapid delivery of perfect orders – complete and defect-free.

However, reaching the new goal with the existing planning model would require increasing safety stock levels, thereby driving up inventory, storage and transportation costs. Ashley Furniture knew it needed a more efficient way to optimize its inventory across its entire supply chain network.

Industry

Durable Goods

Challenge

Increase Already High Service Levels and Overcome Industry Obstacles

Benefits/Results

30% Reduced Lead Time, Driving Improved Customer Service Levels

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Logility gives us the visibility we need across our entire supply chain. It allows us to better manage our business based on true demand and place inventory when and where it is needed to support our customers’ requirements.

Demand Planning and Optimization

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Tillamook County Creamery Association achieves growth with strategic supply chain planning.

Logility helped Tillamook gain visibility and optimize its digital supply chain planning to support aggressive expansion goals.

Tillamook County Creamery Association (Tillamook) manufactures and sells high-quality dairy products including cheese, yogurt, ice cream, sour cream and butter.

Tillamook needed a planning system with the capacity to scale with the company’s strategic growth ambitions. With an expanding product portfolio that must be aged up to eight years ahead, a rapidly expanding customer base and a goal of hitting a 99% company-wide fill rate, Tillamook needed a more sophisticated planning approach to replace its Excel-based efforts.

Industry

Food & Beverage

Challenge

Rapid Growth, Siloed Departments, Meet Demand for Slow-Aging Product

Benefits/Results

75% Decreased Finished Goods Inventory

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Our strategic growth plans require greater visibility and a flexible platform for both digital and operational supply chain success. Logility has been a key partner in support of our long-term goals and we look forward to new opportunities in the future.

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The Carlstar Group becomes a truly data-driven business.

Logility provided The Carlstar Group with instant visibility into sales and operational performance, enabling business leaders to spot trends earlier and make coordinated decisions supported by a single version of the truth.

The Carlstar Group manufactures specialty tires and wheels for agriculture, construction, high-speed trailer and power sports markets.

A reliance on ERP-generated data, spreadsheets and anecdotal narrative meant an unreliable stream of company information was prevalent across the sales, operations and IT departments.

Industry

Consumer Goods

Challenge

Untrustworthy Data, Disparate Systems, Lack of Timely Insights

Benefits/Results

Saved $10 million in obsolete inventory

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Our inventory value has dropped $10 million due to better visibility of obsolete inventory thanks to Logility’s pre-built supply chain solutions.

Inventory Planning and Optimization

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Data Management

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MilliporeSigma discovers the cure for successful replenishment planning.

Logility helped MilliporeSigma optimize inventory via alternate sourcing and utilization of excess stock, resulting in increased fill rate and improved customer service levels.

Challenges

MilliporeSigma is a leading life science and technology company that manufactures biochemical and organic chemical products and kits that are used in scientific research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development and disease diagnosis. Its customers include life science companies, university and government institutions, hospitals and commercial labs. In the industrial area, MilliporeSigma markets stains, dyes, fragrances and flavors.

With a large product portfolio, MilliporeSigma needed better global visibility in order to improve customer service levels, increase forecast accuracy and optimize inventory through a centrally controlled replenishment plan.

Managing an extensive portfolio

MilliporeSigma sells around 100,000 chemicals worldwide, equating to 300,000 SKUs stocked at 20 global locations.

Forecasting and inventory management complexities

MilliporeSigma forecasts more than 7 million items for 80,000 customers with multiple ship-to locations, often as very small volumes.

Global growth

Efficient demand and replenishment planning processes are imperative and need to support roughly 100 people all over the world.

MilliporeSigma Manages Complexity

Solutions

MilliporeSigma’s growth is mostly due to acquisitions in the fine chemicals, biologicals and antibodies areas, and through expansion into new markets. Its central planning team works with any new locations to immediately deploy Logility in order to ensure a standard set of capabilities across the company.

MilliporeSigma replenishes globally on a daily basis, and runs over eight million items through Logility overnight. “Logility keeps up with the pace of our business,” said Jeff Killion, director of global planning at MilliporeSigma. “The ability to get orders in the same day gives us a huge competitive advantage. Our cycle time to our customers, particularly customers in Asia, is as good as, if not better, than any of our competitors.”

Demand Planning and Optimization

Inventory Planning and Optimization

MilliporeSigma forecasts products by region, and at the customer level for bulk business. Approximately seven million items are managed through Logility at a very high accuracy level without any manual intervention. Other core items are “A” items that the planning team has the ability to tune. “The flexibility to forecast at the customer level for some items, and forecast the bulk of the others systematically, was a huge advantage for us,” explained Killion.

Logility’s simulation capabilities have led to increased service levels for MilliporeSigma. The company uses cost analysis to determine the potential dollar value of increasing the service level, by 10 percentage points, for example. MilliporeSigma is now better informed when making decisions and is able to not only improve service levels, but also meet budgets easily.

Initially, the flexibility and speed allowed by Logility to immediately optimize the entire supply chain by looking at factors such as ocean freight and lot sizes, and forecast accuracy was the biggest focus for MilliporeSigma. Soon after, the company was looking for additional opportunities through Logility to take its supply chain to the next level. The company continues to increase customer service levels, optimize inventory and collapse cash-to-cash cycles. “Logility combines supply chain expertise with technology innovation and really fits the unique demands of our specialized business. There is no ‘silver bullet,’ but Logility comes close, giving us tremendous flexibility and tangible payback,” said Killion.

Results

With Logility, MilliporeSigma was able to improve forecast accuracy for A, B and C items as well as customer bulk items, and leverage time-phased inventory policies to achieve desired service levels. It has reduced inventory via alternate sourcing and excess stock utilization, improved customer service levels, decreases cash-to-cash cycles and successfully optimized the entire supply chain.

Logility keeps up with the pace of our business. The ability to get orders in the same day gives us a huge competitive advantage. Our cycle time to our customers, particularly customers in Asia, is as good as, if not better than, any of our competitors.

Success Stories

Haggar manages omni-channel complexity.

Logility helped Haggar reduce complexity and gain visibility throughout its supply chain by optimizing forecast accuracy, managing segmentation strategies and gaining inventory visibility to improve service and margins.

One of the most recognized apparel brands, Haggar has sold comfortable, high-quality men’s clothing since 1926. Haggar is a top US manufacturer of dress pants, suit separates, casual pants and shorts.

Haggar’s biggest challenges include market segmentation for an increasingly complicated omni-channel network and sourcing products and materials across a global outsourced environment. This growing complexity has sparked the need for new market insights and better decision making across the business. Haggar needed a digital supply chain platform to help increase free cash flow by maximizing fill rates using an optimized inventory strategy to boost service and delight customers.

Industry

Apparel

Challenge

Migration to Omni-Channel, Outsourced Production, Vast Data, Complex Products

Benefits/Results

70% Slashed Excess Inventory

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We’ve automated a lot of processes with Logility, so our planners can focus on things that make a difference. We’re also positioned to grow revenue as our business continues to evolve.

Demand Planning and Optimization

Vendor Management

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Groupe Dynamite fashions an in-stock edge.

Groupe Dynamite now develops forecasts down to the store level accounting for consumer variances including climate, culture, economy, and fashion trends.

Groupe Dynamite is a Montréal-based fast-fashion retailer with two brands at the heart of its success, Garage and Dynamite. It operates more than 380 stores employing more than 5,500 people in Canada, the United States and the Middle East, plus an e-commerce site.

Groupe Dynamite needed to transform its manual processes for forecasting, allocation, and replenishment to meet growing business needs and support rapid growth as the brands expanded in American and international markets.

Industry

Apparel

Challenge

Respond to Fast Fashion, Rapidly Changing Trends, and Tremendous Growth

Benefits/Results

80% Increased Auto Replenishment

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Our implementation of Logility has enabled us to improve our sell through, reduce our markdowns and increase profitability as we position merchandise in the optimal location to delight our customers.

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Glen Raven weaves a dynamic supply chain.

Logility helped this performance fabrics manufacturer transform its digital supply chain process including demand, inventory and supply planning.

Glen Raven is a global provider of innovative fabric-based solutions for applications in the awning, marine, furniture, flooring, protective, military and geosynthetic markets.

Glen Raven needed to grow top line revenue efficiently, increasing service levels to customers without increasing inventories.

Industry

Consumer Durables

Challenge

Ineffective Planning, Broadening Assortment, Inventory Mangement, Maintain Service and Quality

Benefits/Results

50% Improved Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE)

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With Logility, we have an integrated planning platform that enables Glen Raven to better serve our customers and grow our business efficiently.

Demand Planning and Optimization

Integrated Business Planning

Manufacturing Planning and Optimization

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Farnell synchronizes its supply chain to boost customer service.

Logility helped Farnell achieve the best balance between customer service levels and inventory requirements.

Farnell markets and distributes more than 600,000 electronic components and industrial maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products to 430,000 customers in 36 countries.

As part of the effort to rebrand four businesses in its marketing and distribution division, Farnell wanted to cross-sell products across its subsidiary businesses and give customers access to a greater array of products from the Farnell company of their choice. With the Farnell initiative, the company needed to be able to deliver a single order from multiple warehouses, support the implementation of new warehouse locations, increase order visibility, improve service and reduce inventory levels.

Industry

Service Parts

Challenge

Consolidate Business Groups and Brands

Benefits/Results

Reduced Inventory by 5% While Improving Customer Service

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Logility allows us to place inventory more strategically and choose any warehouse to be the point of delivery, minimizing the number of stocking points.

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E.A. Sween Company strengthens customer relationships.

Following a rapid implementation, Logility enabled E.A. Sween to quickly gain visibility across the supply chain to sense and respond more effectively to customer needs and market trends.

E.A. Sween Company manufactures and distributes more than 70 million sandwiches a year through wholesale, direct store delivery (DSD) and combined distribution centers (CDC) across the United States. Their brands are known for providing high-quality food for people on the go.

E.A. Sween had a wealth of data; however, the company was unable to extract meaningful insights from this data. The team identified a need for a solution that was quick to implement, cost-effective, user-friendly and would integrate seamlessly with existing technology to help them turn information into action.