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Supply chain optimization in the energy and utilities industry
The transition to clean energy and the grid expansion pose challenges for energy and utilities providers. Efficient logistics and supply chain processes are crucial for success.
In the transition to clean energy, utility providers must maintain and expand their grids and ensure the necessary services to keep them running. This transition significantly impacts the supply chain. The biggest challenges include:
- Significantly more material flows beyond the capacities of existing logistics processes and sites
- High levels of material inventory and fixed capital, in addition to bottlenecks for critical components
- Costs for special processes including external storage and special transports
- Increasing complexity of logistics processes and their integration in overarching business processes and IT landscapes
To address these challenges, 4flow supports businesses with operational supply chain processes, supply chain infrastructure, planning and scheduling processes, and IT transformation.
Together with our customers in the energy and utilities sector, 4flow achieves significant cost savings and performance improvements. Common results include sustainably optimized supply chain processes, inventory reduction and higher service levels.
Our services for energy and utilities providers include:
Our experts benchmark our customers’ level of development against the skills required in the future of the energy and utilities industry, identify improvement potential and define measures for optimization.
We design tailor-made solutions for logistics processes and technologies in both existing and new buildings. The plans are evaluated with a business case analysis that reflects regulatory requirements. This method ensures transparent, well-founded decision making.
We support customers to reduce inventory while simultaneously ensuring target service levels. Optimize your demand forecasting during planning processes with artificial intelligence tailored to your requirements. We evaluate the financial benefits of all measures with a business case.
Our experts support customers to optimize IT processes in their logistics and supply chains – whether with the transformation to SAP S/4HANA or implementation of SAP EWM or other warehouse management systems. We also help customers implement sales and operations planning (S&OP) software. We collaborate with our customers from strategy creation to the definition of requirements, tendering and IT selection, all the way to implementation.
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Proven success with top businesses
- BayWa r.e. Solar Trade
BayWa r.e. Solar Trade enabled sustainable growth with an agile digital supply chain transformation
Success story in renewable energy
BayWa r.e. Solar Trade is one of the world’s leading distributors of photovoltaic components. To navigate complexity and enable sustainable growth, BayWa r.e. Solar Trade defined supply chain planning as a focus area because of its potential to significantly boost supply chain maturity.
The solution
- 4flow supported BayWa r.e. Solar Trade through process design and implementation of Kinaxis MaestroTM
The results
- S&OP process implemented for entities in 6 countries and aligned with over 300 stakeholders
- Rollout across 14 global entities in final phase with go-live 18 months after decision
- Realization of one global source of truth for supply chain planning
- Less than one year from decision to go-live with Kinaxis MaestroTM
- Greater supply chain agility thanks to short planning cycles, shorter planning horizons and scenario planning
BayWa r.e. Solar Trade enabled sustainable growth with an agile digital supply chain transformation
Success story in renewable energy
BayWa r.e. Solar Trade is one of the world’s leading distributors of photovoltaic components. To navigate complexity and enable sustainable growth, BayWa r.e. Solar Trade defined supply chain planning as a focus area because of its potential to significantly boost supply chain maturity.
The solution
- 4flow supported BayWa r.e. Solar Trade through process design and implementation of Kinaxis MaestroTM
The results
- S&OP process implemented for entities in 6 countries and aligned with over 300 stakeholders
- Rollout across 14 global entities in final phase with go-live 18 months after decision
- Realization of one global source of truth for supply chain planning
- Less than one year from decision to go-live with Kinaxis MaestroTM
- Greater supply chain agility thanks to short planning cycles, shorter planning horizons and scenario planning