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CHÂTEAU BLANC is the industrial subsidiary of the HOLDER Group (PAUL bakeries). It distributes a wide range of bakery, pastries, pastries and catering products to major retail and restaurant chains.
Anticipation of needs
To cope with a sharp increase in its activity and anticipate an ever more varied demand from its customers, CHÂTEAU BLANC set up in 2013 a transversal Industrial Supply Chain organization. The objective is to improve product availability and optimize resources by better anticipating needs. Following a call for tenders, she chose AZAP Demand Planning (2012), then AZAP Production Planning (2015).
Reliable forecasts and optimal management
Thanks to AZAP’s support, CHÂTEAU BLANC succeeds on the one hand in ensuring the reliability and optimal management of its sales forecasts, based on a fully integrated monthly collaborative process between Commerce, Supply Chain, Factories and Executive management ; then on the other hand, to efficiently plan the production of its 3 sites to best meet the loads and the vagaries of demand.
Château Blanc in brief
- Industrial division of the HOLDER Group
- 30,000 t of finished products / year
- 2017 turnover: 96 M €
- > 400 employees
- > 500 references of finished products
- 3 production sites
- > 200 customers in more than 40 countries
- 1 logistics platform of 10,000m2
Stakes and objective of the project
- Create a transversal Supply Chain
- Make the quality of the forecast more reliable
- Set up production planning in connection with the ERP
Modules installed
- AZAP Demand Planning
- AZAP Production Planning
« AZAP Demand Forecasting and AZAP Production & Distribution Planning have played a major role in the evolution of the Supply Chain organization within Château Blanc and have helped us improve our results. By automating and making our forecasting and planning tasks more reliable, these tools allow us to take the necessary distance (easy simulations, easier comparisons, reporting base) and to better manage our processes. »
Nicolas BINET,
Head of Supply Chain, CHÂTEAU BLANC.
CHÂTEAU BLANC is the industrial subsidiary of the HOLDER Group (PAUL bakeries). It distributes a wide range of bakery, pastries, pastries and catering products to major retail and restaurant chains.
Anticipation of needs
To cope with a sharp increase in its activity and anticipate an ever more varied demand from its customers, CHÂTEAU BLANC set up in 2013 a transversal Industrial Supply Chain organization. The objective is to improve product availability and optimize resources by better anticipating needs. Following a call for tenders, she chose AZAP Demand Planning (2012), then AZAP Production Planning (2015).
Reliable forecasts and optimal management
Thanks to AZAP’s support, CHÂTEAU BLANC succeeds on the one hand in ensuring the reliability and optimal management of its sales forecasts, based on a fully integrated monthly collaborative process between Commerce, Supply Chain, Factories and Executive management ; then on the other hand, to efficiently plan the production of its 3 sites to best meet the loads and the vagaries of demand.
Château Blanc in brief
- Industrial division of the HOLDER Group
- 30,000 t of finished products / year
- 2017 turnover: 96 M €
- > 400 employees
- > 500 references of finished products
- 3 production sites
- > 200 customers in more than 40 countries
- 1 logistics platform of 10,000m2
Stakes and objective of the project
- Create a transversal Supply Chain
- Make the quality of the forecast more reliable
- Set up production planning in connection with the ERP
Modules installed
- AZAP Demand Planning
- AZAP Production Planning
« AZAP Demand Forecasting and AZAP Production & Distribution Planning have played a major role in the evolution of the Supply Chain organization within Château Blanc and have helped us improve our results. By automating and making our forecasting and planning tasks more reliable, these tools allow us to take the necessary distance (easy simulations, easier comparisons, reporting base) and to better manage our processes. »
Nicolas BINET,
Head of Supply Chain, CHÂTEAU BLANC.
Results obtained
Qualitative
- Continuous improvement of processes (Monthly Forecast Committee, monthly workload plan, periodic PIC)
Quantitative
- Service rate increase from 97.5% to + 99%
- + 6 forecast reliability points
- 20% reduction in stocks
