OEMs today need an agile and efficient supply chain and manufacturing partner. It’s the only way to compete in a challenging environment where costs can rise faster than revenues, SKUs have a habit of suddenly proliferating and customers often switch brands in response to promotions or changing trends.
The global manufacturing base makes it increasingly hard to respond swiftly and efficiently to surge demand. Meanwhile, the growth of online retail simply adds to demand volatility. With so many outlets, so much dynamic pricing, multiplying fulfilment locations, and real-time discounting, the complications for accurate forecasting stack up.
Chemigraphic’s recent introduction of a fully cloud-based ERP system has strengthened our ability to partner with you for accurate, efficient forecasting.
IFS Applications 10 is a best-in-class ERP – and we are one of the one of the first UK businesses to have had this version of IFS implemented from scratch.
IFS/Demand PlanningTM reduces the complexity of forecasting through one of the most sophisticated and easy-to-use graphical demand planning tools on the market today. Its highly interactive forecasting environment allows us to work with you to quickly create and adjust demand forecasts for input into other key enterprise activities such as sales planning, inventory control and production.
Commenting on the benefits of the new ERP Stewart Gadd, Technical Director at Chemigraphic, said that ‘our new and enhanced system has improved our operational efficiency by bringing everything together into one core platform. The benefits are clear for our customers: it enables superior planning, better forecasting and enhanced capacity management, allowing us to do what we do better, faster and more flexibly.’
To ensure that we can forecast requirements from the start, and agilely respond to changes as they happen, we have also introduced my own new role as programme manager, giving me the responsibility of liaising with customers so we can better understand their requirements, potential barriers to progress and expectations early on in our relationship and at fundamental milestones along the way.
This allows us to create an improved, clear forecast for each customer and each project, in order to manage capacity and activity peaks as far ahead as possible.
