

Chemicals
Sales & Operations Planning, Price Forecasting, and Customer Profitability Management at BASF Agro
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Improve planning across all supply processes, fulfilling demand targets and capacity requirements
Create an accurate foundation of data on which to perform all supply planning activities and fully integrate strategic sourcing and procurement planning, production planning, and inventory planning in a single, user-friendly platform.
Easily manage make or buy, off-shoring, re-shoring, and shared services decisions.
Put in place a sourcing strategy for each category, acknowledging supply market analysis, sourcing scope, policy imperatives, guidelines, and pre-qualification criteria
From bid submission by suppliers to contract stipulation, within a workflow-driven, collaborative environment
Take advantage of automatic valuation, sorting, ranking, and shortlisting of bids according to pre-uploaded criteria and key buying factors
Exploit clustering and analytics capabilities to create supplier tiers according to codified criteria (i.e. share of spending, level of criticality, geographical coverage, and size) and to rank suppliers’ performance according to KPI’s and business targets to ensure you are getting full value from them
Exploit BI capabilities for the generation of reports and dashboards on bids and key value drivers for contracts
Generate a procurement plan within a collaborative environment across all supply chain processes.
Generate purchasing planning aimed at operating expenditure reduction, acknowledging demand, production, and warehouse planning
Strengthen procurement planning activities through the use of a predictive analytics engine with a machine learning approach
Manage purchasing re-planning cycles on a real-time basis triggered by effective inputs from supply chain processes
Take advantage of reports and dashboards which support gap analysis between forecasted and actual figures
Support all category management process steps and governance allowing for SKU rationalization.
Exploit BI and analysis capabilities to correctly define spend categories and SKUs
Exploit simulation and scenario analysis features to decide ownership and governance attribution across the Sourcing Function (i.e. regional vs global departments)
Support market intelligence on new products, changes in product specifications, and products out of production
Use clustering techniques to conduct cost analysis by category
Streamline capacity & production planning from strategy to execution to properly target business goals.
Put in place a production strategy in terms of volume thresholds, efficiency, productivity, and economies of scale targets compatible with business sustainability and value creation objectives
Support footprint definition across geographies according to outsourcing and off-shoring/re-shoring choices, taking into consideration the layout of your warehouse and supplier/customer locations
Drive your master production schedule, matching capacity requirements within a multi-dimensional and driver-based planning process that acknowledges demand, procurement, and inventory planning
Manage re-planning cycles on a real-time basis triggered by effective inputs from supply chain processes
Take advantage of reports and dashboards which support gap analysis between forecasted and actual figures
Streamline warehousing practice through inventory planning which orchestrates the inflow and outflow of raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished products across the entire supply chain.
Put in place an inventory strategy in terms of stock thresholds, rotation efficiency, obsolescence, and scrapping rate targets compatible with business sustainability and value creation objectives
Support the definition of your warehouse footprint according to outsourcing choice, production footprint, and customer/supplier locations
Plan inventory inflows and outflows, defining safety/buffer stock thresholds, conceiving replenishment criteria, and acknowledging demand, procurement, and capacity & production planning
Manage inventory re-planning cycles on a real-time basis triggered by effective inputs from supply chain processes
Exploit native platform reporting features to create reports and dashboards which support gap analysis between forecasted and actual figures, relative to variables and key value drivers such as inventory flows, stock ruptures, inventory rotation, and workforce productivity
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Sales & Operations Planning, Price Forecasting, and Customer Profitability Management at BASF Agro
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