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The Flexible Supply Chain

Blue Yonder

Technology Category	Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Applicable Industries	Electronics
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Inventory Management Supply Chain Visibility
Challenge	SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, needed to increase its supply chain flexibility and responsiveness to customer demand. As the company's business grew, it needed to migrate from homegrown, spreadsheet-based planning tools to robust, scalable solutions that would support its expanding original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channels and retail presence. SanDisk sought an integrated advanced planning solution that would help the company maintain profitable growth and maximize its margins while continuing to meet customer demand and increase customer satisfaction. Read More
About Customer	SanDisk Corporation is a global leader in flash memory storage solutions. Its state-of-the-art solutions can be found in many of the world’s largest data centers, embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets, and PCs, and at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. As SanDisk’s business grew, the company needed to migrate from homegrown, spreadsheet-based planning tools to robust, scalable solutions that would support its expanding original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channels and retail presence. Read More
Solution	SanDisk selected JDA Software’s Manufacturing Planning solutions to enhance its planning processes. The company now produces a daily integrated supply chain plan that includes demand, material supply and capacity constraints and utilization, allocation, and execution objectives. The end-to-end supply chain plan is seamlessly integrated and funnels supply plan information from the long-range materials and capacity plan to the daily production plan. This is incorporated with the demand plan, which includes a single version of the forecast that aligns with business unit, sales and finance goals. This single forecast is incorporated into the weekly and monthly planning cycles. With the integrated business plan, SanDisk now has visibility into demand and supply across the entire organization. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems

Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Applicable Industries

Electronics

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Supply Chain Visibility

Challenge

SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, needed to increase its supply chain flexibility and responsiveness to customer demand. As the company's business grew, it needed to migrate from homegrown, spreadsheet-based planning tools to robust, scalable solutions that would support its expanding original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channels and retail presence. SanDisk sought an integrated advanced planning solution that would help the company maintain profitable growth and maximize its margins while continuing to meet customer demand and increase customer satisfaction.

About Customer

SanDisk Corporation is a global leader in flash memory storage solutions. Its state-of-the-art solutions can be found in many of the world’s largest data centers, embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets, and PCs, and at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. As SanDisk’s business grew, the company needed to migrate from homegrown, spreadsheet-based planning tools to robust, scalable solutions that would support its expanding original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channels and retail presence.

Solution

SanDisk selected JDA Software’s Manufacturing Planning solutions to enhance its planning processes. The company now produces a daily integrated supply chain plan that includes demand, material supply and capacity constraints and utilization, allocation, and execution objectives. The end-to-end supply chain plan is seamlessly integrated and funnels supply plan information from the long-range materials and capacity plan to the daily production plan. This is incorporated with the demand plan, which includes a single version of the forecast that aligns with business unit, sales and finance goals. This single forecast is incorporated into the weekly and monthly planning cycles. With the integrated business plan, SanDisk now has visibility into demand and supply across the entire organization.

Impact #1	Improved safety-stock inventory and on-time delivery performance metrics by more than 10 percent
Impact #2	Consistently delivered above 95 percent performance to the original promise date
Impact #3	Earned top supplier awards from commercial and retail partners

Impact #1

Improved safety-stock inventory and on-time delivery performance metrics by more than 10 percent

Impact #2

Consistently delivered above 95 percent performance to the original promise date

Impact #3

Earned top supplier awards from commercial and retail partners

Benefit #1	Improved safety-stock inventory and on-time delivery performance metrics by more than 10 percent
Benefit #2	Consistently delivered above 95 percent performance to the original promise date
Benefit #3	Shortened its frozen production plan period from weeks to days

Benefit #1

Improved safety-stock inventory and on-time delivery performance metrics by more than 10 percent

Benefit #2

Consistently delivered above 95 percent performance to the original promise date

Benefit #3

Shortened its frozen production plan period from weeks to days

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The Flexible Supply Chain

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