Success Story
DIGEL
Real time planning and control for short response times
MISSION
The international fashion label DIGEL is implementing innovative planning and steering systems, to react specifically and in highest quality to the customer requests and to control several globally distributed production sites in real time. Decentralized digital planning along the value chain should create transparency and save precious time. Each year over 1 million parts are planned, put into production and delivered to customers.
SOLUTION AND WORK PROCESS
Determining the data and processes that are necessary to analyze the inventory in detail, i.e. for each article, shape, color and size, taking into account the production times and capacities. Building up a tailor-made system solution.
Prognosis: forecast under consideration of seasonal and trend effects
Supply Network Planning: control of 7 production sites in function of real time retail demand
Dynamic Planning: innovative “navigation system” incorporating all the important factors of production and order processing over time
Real time Simulation: establish tailor-made, decentralized, digital planning along the value chain
RESULTS
DIGEL is able to map customer behavior in retail 1:1 in the production and supply chain.
Reaction times never out of stock (NOS) 24h
Stock reduction 50%
Reduction of financial depreciation by 50% and more
Higher customer satisfaction in retail and at the end customer
Higher free cash flow for market and product development
Jochen Digel
CEO
“Since we respond to the needs of our customers quickly, with the highest quality and as specifically as possible, we use the latest planning and control solutions. Through our cooperation with STREMLER, we ensure the optimal level of service and the ability to deliver when stocks are low. We are dynamic and precise, save time and resources along the value chain. We are entering a new era in the interaction of scheduling, production and purchasing in real time. We see great potential for optimization in this, which we are happy to recommend to our colleagues in the textile industry."
