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SIOP Process Implementation
SIOP Process Implementation
$240M Chemical Manufacturer
Background
- The company creates custom thermoplastics through an extrusion process for a wide variety of industries
- Special additives and proprietary formulations for fabrics and fibers turf products and seamless flow control
Contributions
- Established a SIOP process incorporating cross functional disciplines
- Developed a customized forecasting tool allowing sales to understand trends in historical customer data
- Developed a forecast dashboard that included seasonality and statistical forecasting with customer input or other business insights
- Developed net material requirements based on inventory safety stock levels, customer orders, and forecast to highlight material shortages in the future based on the over all expected demand
Results
- Established a key performance indicator (KPI) dashboard, which allowed regular updates to key SIOP and business fundamentals/li>
- Created tools for forecasting, inventory analysis, net material requirements, and capacity analysis trends (by factory, by line), all of which provide insight into potential future issues/li>
- Established a 4-week SIOP cycle process, which brought together cross-functional teams