THE CHALLENGE: UNIFYING GLOBAL DEMAND PLANNING
For one of the world’s leading wine and spirits companies, a market leader with hundreds of premium brands distributed across 160+ countries, managing demand planning at a global scale presented significant challenges.
With decades of heritage in creative innovation and a dominant position in the premium spirits market, they needed a solution that could match their operational complexity and ambitious growth targets.
The company’s rapid global expansion had created a fragmented planning landscape. Their existing system relied heavily on disconnected spreadsheets, creating numerous pain points:
- Inconsistent reporting formats across regional offices
- Time-consuming manual consolidation of data
- Challenges with version control and data security
- Limited visibility into global demand patterns
- Inefficient collaboration between regional teams
The Solution: Implementing Anaplan's Demand Planning SOLUTION
To address these challenges, we partnered with the client to deploy a comprehensive demand planning solution in Anaplan.
Our approach focused on:
Standardizing reporting processes across all regions for a unified approach to data collection, and analysis.
Enhancing cross-functional collaboration between commercial teams and demand planners.
Leveraging advanced forecasting capabilities to optimize inventory levels and reduce stockouts.
Automating manual processes, freeing up resources for strategic initiatives.
The solution was successfully rolled out through a phased approach across APAC, ANZ, LATAM, and their Travel Retail Business.
Value-Added Consulting Services
Vuealta Consulting’s engagement went far beyond basic implementation, delivering comprehensive support across multiple dimensions of the project. Our team conducted detailed S&OP maturity assessments that provided crucial insights into improvement opportunities and potential optimization strategies.
Through thorough gap analysis across regional operations, we identified and addressed key operational differences, ensuring alignment with global objectives while respecting local requirements. A particularly valuable aspect of our engagement was the specialized support provided for global travel retail planning. This included sophisticated demand planning solutions for duty-free operations and cruise center locations, addressing the unique challenges of these important retail channels.
Throughout the project and beyond, our team has maintained a strong presence, delivering ongoing strategic guidance and technical support to ensure sustained success and continuous improvement.
THE RESULTS
The implementation of Anaplan has transformed our client’s demand planning operations, delivering substantial improvements across multiple areas of their business. Forecast accuracy has significantly improved, leading to optimized inventory levels and better resource allocation across their global network. The streamlined processes have dramatically reduced the time spent on manual data processing, allowing teams to focus on strategic analysis and decision-making rather than administrative tasks.
Perhaps most importantly, the new system has created unprecedented visibility into global demand patterns, enabling more informed and strategic resource allocation decisions. The enhanced collaboration between regional and global teams has fostered better communication and more coordinated planning efforts, resulting in more efficient operations across all markets.
As noted by the client’s leadership: “Vuealta Consulting is an essential part of our ecosystem. They worked closely with our onsite project manager and Anaplan team to get this project off the ground and make it a success for our business.”
This is just one of the many use cases Vuealta Consulting can support for CPG organizations.
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