Brief Overview
In order to maximize agility and service - while minimizing costs - CEF needed to bring its three plants together as a centralized production planning organization, with shared resources and a common set of business processes.
Benefits include:
- Improved forecast accuracy by 18 percent
- Increased production line utilization by 10 percent within five months
- Increased fill rates and run rates to achieve a 1 percent improvement in sales (trends predict an annual gain of US$3 million)
- Avoided a plant expansion by better utilizing existing resources
- Established centralized planning processes