Lenzing Partners with Blue Yonder on Its Quest for Sustainability
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Country
- Worldwide
Product
- Blue Yonder’s sales and operations planning (S&OP) solution
Tech Stack
- Cloud
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Environmental Impact Reduction
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Apparel
Use Cases
- Supply Chain Visibility
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
About The Customer
Lenzing Group is a leading supplier of high-quality botanic cellulose fibers to the global fashion industry. The company is committed to sustainability and aims to minimize its environmental impacts. Lenzing targets sustainability via waste reduction, decreased emissions, fiber recycling, and other practices. The company is committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050 and is working to minimize the negative impacts of the entire value chain. Lenzing's commitment to sustainability is reflected in its efforts to increase end-to-end transparency, respond faster to exceptions, minimize environmental impacts, and improve collaboration.
The Challenge
Lenzing Group, a supplier of high-quality botanic cellulose fibers to the global fashion industry, is committed to sustainability. The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions and 20% of the world’s waste water. Lenzing aims to minimize its environmental impacts and become carbon-neutral by 2050. However, the company lacked the transparency to achieve this goal. Five years ago, Lenzing was struggling with an uncontrolled propagation of Excel planning spreadsheets. The lack of transparency and agreement was a significant problem, especially across the fragmented, large, extended fashion supply chain. When conditions changed, it took Lenzing three or four months to respond, leading to significant environmental impacts such as waste from overproduction.
The Solution
Lenzing implemented Blue Yonder’s sales and operations planning (S&OP) solution, which enabled the company to take a boundaryless approach that connects the entire end-to-end supply chain via digitalization. This boundaryless planning model helps Lenzing quantify and control the carbon impacts associated with various steps in the value chain. The S&OP solution, delivered on the cloud, has delivered powerful results. Lenzing now has 24/7, boundaryless access to data and one version of the truth. They can plan and re-plan daily or weekly, as needed. Everyone can see exceptions like demand changes. Everyone’s actions are targeted toward adding value. The recipe for success that Lenzing put together with Blue Yonder is the typical S&OP process combined with sales and operations execution, or S&OE. In one set of numbers, they can plan and act in harmony. They can look at a one-, two- or 24-month horizon. They can see daily fluctuations and focus on their impacts for the plan. They can revise immediately if the market is hot, or if the market is down. And this is all done in one planning instance, using one set of truths.
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