Brief Overview
Incitec Pivot Fertilisers needed to reduce working capital requirements while optimizing fertilizer inventory during the peak Australian growing seasons and implemented an integrated JDA solution to enable them to control both incoming and outgoing freight costs, balance domestic and international material and product supplies, and better manage its network of production facilities.
Benefits include:
Decreased inventory levels and land freight costs
Reduced monthly sales and operations planning cycle from sevento nine days to as little as three days
Established ability to run weekly planning cycle multiple timesper day, as opposed to once every one to two days
Reduced incidents or errors, constraint violations and shorted demands