When restaurants, grocery stores or food suppliers suddenly change their plans, food packaging leader Novolex must be ready to adapt. But Violeta Nedelcu, Supply Chain Director at Novolex®, was struggling with the time it took to coordinate the company’s multiple locations and various systems. “We had a very big gap between the sales plan and the production plan,” she says.
The company followed an annual planning cycle where the sales and operations team finalised sales forecasts, budgets and needs for the upcoming fiscal year. With multiple plant locations and ERP systems, some sites reviewed forecasts quarterly, some twice a year. Overall, the process was lengthy.
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