United StatesFood and restaurants2024 – ongoingStarKist
Board planning platform on Azure replacing spreadsheet planning
StarKist cuts its planning cycle from 16 hours to under one
Problem
Demand and production planning ran on manual spreadsheets. Forecasting took days and gave no real-time view of supply and demand.
Approach
StarKist adopted the Board Intelligent Planning Platform, hosted on Azure, to link supply chain, demand planning and finance. It connects to Azure Machine Learning for forecasting.
Results
Takeaway
The tuna and chicken maker linked supply-chain and financial planning on one platform and reported a 94% cut in planning time, according to Microsoft.
Categories
- Industry
- Food and restaurants
- Business function
- Logistics and supply chainFinance, risk and legal
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and MLOptimization
- Adoption
- Vendor solution
- Evidence
- Vendor's case study
Sources
Source summaries
Microsoft reports that StarKist replaced spreadsheet planning with a cloud platform. It reports the planning cycle falling from 16 hours to under one.
Full details are in the original sources.
