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第三方研究发现，在3年的时间内，多个客户组合的投资回报率为303%
Lodge Cast Iron is the oldest cast-iron cookware company in America. Before Anaplan, the company lacked integrated, real-time communication between demand and supply planning, which resulted in lost sales. Using a new approach to inventory, production, and demand planning with Anaplan, planners at Lodge are confident that they can meet demand and take on any new orders that come their way. They have reduced the chance for human error and ensured that the forecast can be updated more often. Visibility into the forecast has been vastly improved, meaning that demand planning and production planning are aligned, leading to reduced cost and greater efficiency. For Lodge, implementing Anaplan has already created several hundred thousand dollars in savings and top line sales—and they’re just getting started.\r\n"}}" id="text-650d8658bc" class="cmp-text">
洛奇铸铁是美国最古老的铸铁炊具公司。在ananplan之前，该公司在需求和供应计划之间缺乏整合的实时沟通，这导致了销售损失。使用ananplan的库存、生产和需求规划的新方法，洛奇的规划人员有信心满足需求并接受任何新订单。它们减少了人为失误的可能性，并确保预测可以更频繁地更新。预测的可见性得到了极大的改善，这意味着需求计划和生产计划是一致的，从而降低了成本，提高了效率。对于洛奇来说，实施Anaplan已经节省了数十万美元，并带来了最高销售额——而他们才刚刚开始。
正常运行时间和效率的提高，以及更好的库存规划，意味着我们将在不到一年的时间内实现100%的投资回报率。Sam Touchstone，财务高级副总裁/首席信息官
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Turning down more than $1 million a year in new orders is not something any company wants to do. Yet that’s what Lodge Cast Iron did as it struggled to accurately meet production demands. The 120-year-old Tennessee company, which manufactures more than 350 different SKUs of cast-iron cookware, addressed this challenge on two fronts: It opened a brand-new foundry in late 2017, increasing manufacturing capacity by 75 percent. And it transformed its demand, production, and purchasing processes and implemented a monthly S&OP process using the Anaplan platform.\r\n
With Anaplan, Lodge’s demand and production planners can run scenarios and almost instantly tell what the foundries have the capacity to produce, and how changes in plans affect other items in production. Lodge has longer manufacturing runs with fewer changeovers now, resulting in greater efficiency and less production downtime. They’ve also decreased how long it takes to fulfill orders. “Improvements in uptime and efficiency, along with better inventory planning, mean we’ll realize 100 percent ROI from Anaplan in less than a year,” says Sam Touchstone, SVP Finance/CIO.
\r\nThe new Anaplan Supply Chain solution, implemented with the help of Anaplan Gold Partner Akili, has reduced the chance for human error and ensured that forecasts can be updated easily, accurately, and frequently. Visibility into the forecast has been vastly improved, meaning that demand planning and production planning are aligned, costs are reduced, and efficiency is greater. “Since we implemented Anaplan, we have had very few ‘out-of-stock’ items—and when inventory is tight, we are better able to prioritize by customer and item,” explains Demand Planner Amy Rogers.
\r\nAnaplan’s benefits reach beyond the production numbers to improve the lives of the people who live and breathe the planning cycle. Lodge’s production and demand planners have experienced significant time savings. For Rogers, entering projections from sales reps is no longer a manual process, so data that was formerly updated every three to four months is now updated monthly.
\r\nThis has transformed the way the planners work. “We used to complete loading studies—where we calculate capacity for the remainder of the year to determine if we’ll need to run extra shifts—once a month,” explains Manufacturing Planner Jason Kintner. “Now we have weekly loading studies because the data is readily available.” As a result, Lodge has been able to reduce overtime by five days a year.
\r\nBy connecting inventory and purchasing models in Anaplan, Lodge is also empowering purchasing agents—who are responsible for acquiring some 9,400 different packaging items—to order boxes, cartons, and other products based on suggestions calculated in Anaplan. The company is also looking to implement an Anaplan module that will help integrate the demand plan with the FP&A process. For Lodge, Connected Planning means time savings, cost savings, and better efficiency, and the potential is just beginning to take shape.
\r\n"}}" id="text-56ecfe1943" class="cmp-text">拒绝每年超过100万美元的新订单不是任何公司愿意做的事情。然而，这就是洛奇铸铁所做的，因为它努力准确地满足生产需求。这家拥有120年历史的田纳西州公司，生产350多种不同sku的铸铁炊具，从两个方面解决了这一挑战:它在2017年底开设了一家全新的铸造厂，将制造能力提高了75%。它改变了其需求、生产和采购流程，并使用Anaplan平台实施了每月S&OP流程。
通过Anaplan，洛奇的需求和生产计划人员可以运行各种场景，并几乎立即告诉代工厂有能力生产什么，以及计划的变化如何影响生产中的其他项目。现在，洛奇具有更长的生产运行时间，更少的切换，从而提高了效率，减少了生产停机时间。他们还缩短了完成订单所需的时间。“正常运行时间和效率的提高，以及更好的库存规划，意味着我们将在不到一年的时间内实现100%的投资回报率，”财务高级副总裁/首席信息官Sam Touchstone说。
新的Anaplan供应链解决方案，在Anaplan黄金合作伙伴Akili的帮助下实施，减少了人为错误的机会，并确保预测可以轻松、准确和频繁地更新。预测的可见性得到了极大的改善，这意味着需求计划和生产计划是一致的，成本降低了，效率提高了。“自从我们实施了Anaplan以来，我们很少有‘缺货’项目，当库存紧张时，我们能够更好地根据客户和项目进行优先排序，”需求规划师艾米·罗杰斯解释道。
Anaplan的好处超出了生产数量，改善了计划周期中生活和呼吸的人们的生活。洛奇的生产和需求计划人员节省了大量的时间。对罗杰斯来说，输入销售代表的预测不再是一个手动过程，所以以前每三到四个月更新一次的数据现在每月更新一次。
这改变了规划者的工作方式。“我们过去常常每月完成一次装货研究——计算今年剩余时间的产能，以确定我们是否需要额外的班次，”制造规划师杰森·金特纳解释说。“现在我们每周都有加载研究，因为数据很容易获得。”因此，洛奇每年可以减少5天的加班时间。
通过连接Anaplan的库存和采购模型，Lodge还授权采购代理(负责采购大约9400种不同的包装项目)根据Anaplan计算的建议订购盒子、纸盒和其他产品。该公司还希望实现一个anplan模块，以帮助将需求计划与FP&A流程集成在一起。对于洛奇来说，互联规划意味着节省时间、成本和更高的效率，其潜力才刚刚开始形成。