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i2 Demand Planner and Demand Manager Implementation at a snacks food company

The customer

A leading snack food company, USA with a complex supply chain network (18 Regions, 3000+ SKUs, 37 manufacturing locations, 192 distribution centers).

The challenge

	Improve forecast accuracy for large accounts at national level by integrating data related to national level promotions and other market criteria
	Collaboration with external and internal strategic partners
	Incorporation of intelligence at the district level as well as at national level
	Flexibility: To allow for adjustments to be made at a national level and at a regional level
	To allow for improved reporting at the national level with the required additional information

The solution

	The DM server & Web UI were configured in 3 different environments: Test, ITE & production environment within 3.5 days.
	Provided an optimal and better solution for the batch disaggregating jobs on i2 Demand Manager using ETL mapping, to the customer even before the product vendor
	Redesign of the weekly rollover of i2 DM persistence schema
	Ensured the Cross-Docking data flows from the DM schema measure
	Modification of Demand Manager database to incorporate New dimensions
	Identify and define improvements needed in the solution, along with business justification
	Collaborate with package vendor for the enhancements needed
	Design the architecture for extraction and management of data from legacy applications using Informatica
	Develop interfaces with the transaction systems to and between SCM packages

The benefits

	Improved forecast accuracy through National Accounts forecasting
	Improved visibility across the supply chain
	Enabled Collaboration & reducing supply chain inefficiency
	Support for various levels of reporting from national level to district level

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