公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- JDA Demand
- JDA Fulfillment
技术栈
- Supply Chain Management Software
- Inventory Management Software
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 功能应用 - 库存管理系统
- 功能应用 - 企业资源规划系统 (ERP)
适用行业
- 化学品
- 建筑与基础设施
- 医疗保健和医院
适用功能
- 物流运输
- 采购
用例
- 库存管理
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
Airgas, Inc. 是美国最大的工业、医疗和特种气体以及焊接设备和用品分销商。该公司还是最大的安全产品全国分销商之一,是一氧化二氮、干冰和液态二氧化碳以及工艺化学品、制冷剂和氨产品的主要来源。该公司拥有 14,000 多名员工,服务于多元化的客户群,包括焊工和金属制造商、建筑公司、医院和诊所、疗养院和家庭医疗保健提供商、设备制造商和研究实验室。为了满足其多元化客户群的需求,Airgas 建立了一个全国性的分销平台,涵盖多个渠道,包括零售分支机构、配送中心以及入站和出站电话营销中心。Airgas 的综合网络由大约 1,100 个地点组成,从为上门客户提供服务的零售店到遍布美国各地的大型配送中心 (DC)
挑战
Airgas, Inc. 是美国最大的工业、医疗和特种气体以及焊接设备和用品分销商,由于其庞大的业务网络,面临着独特的供应链挑战。该公司制定了雄心勃勃的增长和盈利目标,实施了由有机增长和众多核心、产品线和战略收购推动的积极业务战略。然而,该公司的快速、收购推动的增长并没有得到其现有系统的支持。Airgas 使用传统系统和行业特定解决方案的混合来管理需求,但这些系统没有集成,无法扩展以跟上公司的增长。该公司的 12 家地区运营公司各自运行着自己的需求管理解决方案版本,这进一步加剧了在复杂的批发分销环境中管理近 350 万件商品的需求。因此,Airgas 缺乏优化库存、降低成本和提高客户满意度所需的企业范围的供需视图。
解决方案
为了解决其关键的库存平衡挑战,Airgas 开始评估自动化需求和履行系统。该公司想要一个真正集成的供应链管理解决方案——一个能够连接供应商和次级供应商、内部运营、贸易客户、零售客户和最终用户的解决方案。经过全面审查,Airgas 选择了 JDA Software 的 Intelligent Fulfillment™ 解决方案中的 JDA Demand 和 JDA Fulfillment,以应对其业务挑战并实现其库存的全球视图。Airgas 利用 JDA Demand 管理超过一百万个需求预测单位,并使用汇总和协调在多个级别进行预测。该公司每月生成预测并发布需求规划人员每天进行的更新。JDA Fulfillment 允许 Airgas 通过其 1,500 多家供应商网络管理 250,000 个独特商品,包括 912,000 个库存 SKU 和超过 250 万个非库存 SKU。该公司每晚都会运行其履行计划,在一个典型的工作日内会生成超过 4,000 份采购订单。
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