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Lenzing Partners with Blue Yonder on Its Quest for Sustainability

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Technology Category	Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Apparel
Use Cases	Supply Chain Visibility
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Lenzing Group, a supplier of high-quality botanic cellulose fibers to the global fashion industry, is committed to sustainability. The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions and 20% of the world’s waste water. Lenzing aims to minimize its environmental impacts and become carbon-neutral by 2050. However, the company lacked the transparency to achieve this goal. Five years ago, Lenzing was struggling with an uncontrolled propagation of Excel planning spreadsheets. The lack of transparency and agreement was a significant problem, especially across the fragmented, large, extended fashion supply chain. When conditions changed, it took Lenzing three or four months to respond, leading to significant environmental impacts such as waste from overproduction. Read More
About Customer	Lenzing Group is a leading supplier of high-quality botanic cellulose fibers to the global fashion industry. The company is committed to sustainability and aims to minimize its environmental impacts. Lenzing targets sustainability via waste reduction, decreased emissions, fiber recycling, and other practices. The company is committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050 and is working to minimize the negative impacts of the entire value chain. Lenzing's commitment to sustainability is reflected in its efforts to increase end-to-end transparency, respond faster to exceptions, minimize environmental impacts, and improve collaboration. Read More
Solution	Lenzing implemented Blue Yonder’s sales and operations planning (S&OP) solution, which enabled the company to take a boundaryless approach that connects the entire end-to-end supply chain via digitalization. This boundaryless planning model helps Lenzing quantify and control the carbon impacts associated with various steps in the value chain. The S&OP solution, delivered on the cloud, has delivered powerful results. Lenzing now has 24/7, boundaryless access to data and one version of the truth. They can plan and re-plan daily or weekly, as needed. Everyone can see exceptions like demand changes. Everyone’s actions are targeted toward adding value. The recipe for success that Lenzing put together with Blue Yonder is the typical S&OP process combined with sales and operations execution, or S&OE. In one set of numbers, they can plan and act in harmony. They can look at a one-, two- or 24-month horizon. They can see daily fluctuations and focus on their impacts for the plan. They can revise immediately if the market is hot, or if the market is down. And this is all done in one planning instance, using one set of truths. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Apparel

Use Cases

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Lenzing Group, a supplier of high-quality botanic cellulose fibers to the global fashion industry, is committed to sustainability. The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions and 20% of the world’s waste water. Lenzing aims to minimize its environmental impacts and become carbon-neutral by 2050. However, the company lacked the transparency to achieve this goal. Five years ago, Lenzing was struggling with an uncontrolled propagation of Excel planning spreadsheets. The lack of transparency and agreement was a significant problem, especially across the fragmented, large, extended fashion supply chain. When conditions changed, it took Lenzing three or four months to respond, leading to significant environmental impacts such as waste from overproduction.

About Customer

Lenzing Group is a leading supplier of high-quality botanic cellulose fibers to the global fashion industry. The company is committed to sustainability and aims to minimize its environmental impacts. Lenzing targets sustainability via waste reduction, decreased emissions, fiber recycling, and other practices. The company is committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050 and is working to minimize the negative impacts of the entire value chain. Lenzing's commitment to sustainability is reflected in its efforts to increase end-to-end transparency, respond faster to exceptions, minimize environmental impacts, and improve collaboration.

Solution

Lenzing implemented Blue Yonder’s sales and operations planning (S&OP) solution, which enabled the company to take a boundaryless approach that connects the entire end-to-end supply chain via digitalization. This boundaryless planning model helps Lenzing quantify and control the carbon impacts associated with various steps in the value chain. The S&OP solution, delivered on the cloud, has delivered powerful results. Lenzing now has 24/7, boundaryless access to data and one version of the truth. They can plan and re-plan daily or weekly, as needed. Everyone can see exceptions like demand changes. Everyone’s actions are targeted toward adding value. The recipe for success that Lenzing put together with Blue Yonder is the typical S&OP process combined with sales and operations execution, or S&OE. In one set of numbers, they can plan and act in harmony. They can look at a one-, two- or 24-month horizon. They can see daily fluctuations and focus on their impacts for the plan. They can revise immediately if the market is hot, or if the market is down. And this is all done in one planning instance, using one set of truths.

Impact #1	Increased end-to-end transparency
Impact #2	Faster responsiveness to exceptions
Impact #3	Minimized environmental impacts

Impact #1

Increased end-to-end transparency

Impact #2

Faster responsiveness to exceptions

Impact #3

Minimized environmental impacts

Benefit #1	Reduced time to respond to market changes from 3-4 months to daily or weekly
Benefit #2	Unified planning and execution in one planning instance
Benefit #3	Over 150 users across finance, executive planning, and operations

Benefit #1

Reduced time to respond to market changes from 3-4 months to daily or weekly

Benefit #2

Unified planning and execution in one planning instance

Benefit #3

Over 150 users across finance, executive planning, and operations

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Lenzing Partners with Blue Yonder on Its Quest for Sustainability

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