NEC Display Solutions needed a flexible planning and reporting solution that mapped and consolidated individual and interconnected planning modules, including daily operational procurement planning, with global users. They were using Excel which offered a high degree of flexibility for the user, but fell flat when it came to data consistency, security, collaboration, and consolidation of the planning data.
BOARD was able to support all of the essential functions for planning in the areas of supply chain and controlling for the entire company. Analyses and reports become faster and contained more data, and the improved transparency increased the quality of all decisions. The sales managers had permanent access to the system and could better adhere to their two-week planning cycle. As Excel is no longer used, the time-consuming planning set-up (new product life cycles) and the work involved with versioning is no longer required. Within the framework of the project the various processes for different divisions were merged and adjusted. All of the planning users now have access to the same system, and inconsistencies are avoided. Thanks to the integrated data management system (forecast, inventory data, procurement planning, and delivery quantities) and the simple creation of reports, both processes (reallocation, delivery bottlenecks) and stock-keeping were optimized.