Sonos makes supply chain harmony with Connected Planning

消费电子公司创建端到端的可见性,并释放计划者的分析时间

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Home audio manufacturer Sonos managed its complex supply and demand ecosystem, including more than 200 component suppliers, using countless spreadsheets. The process was slow and error-prone, and as Heather Williams, head of Integrated Business Planning recalls, “all the planners really spent a lot more time maintaining spreadsheets than they did actually planning.” With Anaplan, Sonos has a connected product plan across resources, spending, and product lines, and planners do more value-added work.

我们内部协作的能力得到了极大的提高,这降低了压力水平,并确实使团队关系更好。

希瑟·威廉姆斯,综合业务计划高级主任

Sonos invented multi-room wireless home audio and markets its products in more than 50 countries.Before Anaplan, Sonos managed its complex supply and demand ecosystem using dozens of spreadsheets. With a supply base consisting of over 200 individual component suppliers, the Sonos supply chain planning team struggled to balance supply and global demand. The process was slow and error-prone, and planners spent the majority of their time manually maintaining and connecting data points.

Sonos brought in Anaplan and created end-to-end supply chain visibility with plans that span resources, spending, and product lines. The Sonos team started their implementation with supply and demand balancing, and then added a supply planning module that enables a granular view of products at the factory level. Most recently, they incorporated demand planning to add forecasting into the mix.

The biggest ROI that Sonos has found with Anaplan is measured in hours. For example, one analyst who previously spent 70 percent of her time integrating spreadsheets now spends less than 10 percent of her time on that task. The Global Planning team also saves time in their planning cycle. For example, executing a change in demand used to take two weeks—now it takes just one day.

Sonos选择了Anaplan的速度和灵活性。借助Anaplan的基于云的平台,该团队有一个愿景,可以连接业务的更多部分,改善沟通并影响文化的变化。正如综合业务计划高级总监希瑟·威廉姆斯(Heather Williams)所说:“我们内部合作的能力得到了极大的改善,这降低了压力水平,并确实使团队关系更好。”