The Flexible Supply Chain
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- JDA Demand Manager
- JDA Enterprise Architecture
- JDA Inventory Optimization
- JDA Supply Chain Planner
- JDA Factory Planner
Tech Stack
- Advanced Planning Systems
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems
- Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Applicable Industries
- Electronics
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain Visibility
About The Customer
SanDisk Corporation is a global leader in flash memory storage solutions. Its state-of-the-art solutions can be found in many of the world’s largest data centers, embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets, and PCs, and at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. As SanDisk’s business grew, the company needed to migrate from homegrown, spreadsheet-based planning tools to robust, scalable solutions that would support its expanding original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channels and retail presence.
The Challenge
SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, needed to increase its supply chain flexibility and responsiveness to customer demand. As the company's business grew, it needed to migrate from homegrown, spreadsheet-based planning tools to robust, scalable solutions that would support its expanding original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channels and retail presence. SanDisk sought an integrated advanced planning solution that would help the company maintain profitable growth and maximize its margins while continuing to meet customer demand and increase customer satisfaction.
The Solution
SanDisk selected JDA Software’s Manufacturing Planning solutions to enhance its planning processes. The company now produces a daily integrated supply chain plan that includes demand, material supply and capacity constraints and utilization, allocation, and execution objectives. The end-to-end supply chain plan is seamlessly integrated and funnels supply plan information from the long-range materials and capacity plan to the daily production plan. This is incorporated with the demand plan, which includes a single version of the forecast that aligns with business unit, sales and finance goals. This single forecast is incorporated into the weekly and monthly planning cycles. With the integrated business plan, SanDisk now has visibility into demand and supply across the entire organization.
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