Demand Planning

Planning for the Unexpected
Continental Mills, a leading producer of dry bakery mix products, has several popular brands including the Krusteaz and Ghirardelli family of dry mixes and WildRoots snacks that delight consumer taste buds. Continental Mills’ number one priority is customer service—to deliver the right products to its customers when and where they need them. In this session, Continental Mills’ Director of Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Michael Burke will discuss how Logility Voyager Solutions™ has helped achieve supply chain excellence, including the ability to handle unexpected challenges and new opportunities with greater confidence.

Learn how Continental Mills uses Logility Voyager Solutions™ to:

• Collaborative S&OP process including people process and technology
• Leveraging a digital twin to model available tradeoffs including key customer and trading partner relationships
• Synchronizing comprehensive demand, inventory, supply, production and distribution to identify and resolve complex supply chain challenges
• Evaluating multi-scenario contingency plans quickly for better-informed decision-making

With distribution centers around the world, Dixon Valve is a leading innovator in the hose and coupling industry and is transforming its hundred-year-old supply chain to boost customer service and reduce complexity. In this session, Supply Chain Analyst Steven Bilinski will talk about the opportunities and challenges presented by digital supply chain transformation at this traditional manufacturing company.

Learn how Dixon Valve uses Logility Voyager Solutions™ to:

• Improve customer service levels
• Establish a collaborative S&OP process
• Efficiently manage inventory

The Power Solutions Division of Johnson Controls is the largest producer of car batteries in the world. JCI’s customers include OEM manufacturers such as GM, Daimler, and Ford and retailers such as Advance Auto Parts, AutoZone, Pep Boys and Wal-Mart. Since 2016 the company has relied on Logility to help it manage forecast accuracy to support world class service to over 10,000 customer locations. In this session, Demand Planning Manager – Myriam Cavazos-Lozano will discuss how the company has created a demand planning process that improves fill rates, reduces excess and supports corporate goals.

Learn how Johnson Controls uses Logility Voyager Solutions™ to:

• Improve forecast accuracy despite ever-increasing complexity including production facilities in 20 countries, a reverse logistics battery supply chain and growing SKU proliferation.
• Improve product availability across a global customer base
• Support production schedules for over 70 manufacturing and assembly facilities

Anomaly detection helps us identify unusual patterns that do not conform to expected behavior. Through an innovative pilot project, a Demand Solutions customer is using anomaly detection to improve its forecasting. Join us to find out how implementing this machine learning technique in Demand Solutions can significantly improve your forecast accuracy by detecting and smoothing historical outliers.

One of the most recognized apparel brands, Haggar Clothing Co. has been crafting comfortable, high-quality men’s clothing since 1926. Haggar is a top US distributor for casual pants, shorts, dress pants and suit separates. Since 2010 the company has relied on Logility to help it manage inventory and working capital and to gain visibility into its complex supply chain. In this session, Vice President of Planning Pravin Rangachari will discuss how the company has created supply chain processes that improve fill rates, reduce excess and optimize inventory.

Learn how Haggar uses Logility Voyager Solutions™ to:

• Maintain visibility across a global omni-channel network of retailers, etailers and owned stores
• Manage multiple customer programs including wholesale, direct to consumer, and vendor managed inventory
• Improve forecast accuracy to meet ever-increasing customer demands despite supply complexity including multi-stage, long lead time, global production

Could your sales team be the key to improving your forecast accuracy? Join us to find out how a leading Demand Solutions customer used a highly collaborative approach to involve the sales organization in its planning processes—and then held sales reps accountable for the forecast that resulted. This customer-led session will give you a new perspective on what it means to work together to boost the bottom line.

LaCrosse Footwear, Inc. is U.S. footwear company founded in 1897 in La Crosse, Wisconsin and now based in Portland, Oregon. The company has two core brands that serve a vast consumer base; from those passionate about the great outdoors, to industrial workers, to military service personnel around the world. Over the last few years LFI has improved profitability, increased marketing dollars and was fortunate to have grown revenue 13% in 2018. We are challenged with continuing this trend and have aggressive growth targets to double the size of the company by 2021.

Learn how LaCrosse Footwear uses Logility Voyager Solutions™ to:

• Manage Logility parameter settings and batch jobs
• Categorize a tiered approach to Service Level safety stock
• Integrate creative solutions to adapt to ERP/MRP limitations