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Infinite Possibilities with Infineon

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Country
  • Germany
Product
  • Blue Yonder’s S&OP
Tech Stack
  • Sales and Operations Planning Software
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Cost Savings
Technology Category
  • Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Applicable Industries
  • Electronics
  • Semiconductors
Applicable Functions
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Sales & Marketing
Use Cases
  • Demand Planning & Forecasting
  • Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling
Services
  • Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
Infineon Technologies is a global company that operates in the semiconductor and system solutions industry. They provide their products and services to a diverse range of customers worldwide, including auto manufacturers, industrial electronics companies, chip card and security businesses, and information and communications technology leaders. The company has more than 20 facilities worldwide and is known for its demand volatility, long product lead times, and high capital investments. The company's main challenge was to create a single integrated, multidimensional sales and operations planning process that promotes global collaboration and enables the company to quickly respond to market changes.
The Challenge
Infineon Technologies operates in the semiconductor and system solutions industry, which is known for its demand volatility, long product lead times, and high capital investments. The company serves a diverse range of customers worldwide, including auto manufacturers, industrial electronics companies, chip card and security businesses, and information and communications technology leaders. The challenge for Infineon was to create a single integrated, multidimensional sales and operations planning process that promotes global collaboration and enables the company to quickly respond to market changes. The company’s ability to sense and respond to demand changes, while balancing global production capacity across its more than 20 facilities, was proving to be a significant challenge.
The Solution
Infineon tested sales and operations planning (S&OP) solutions from a number of different vendors. It selected Blue Yonder’s S&OP, in order to create an integrated solution suite that could provide both a reliable demand forecast and realistic production plans. Out of all of the solutions Infineon evaluated, Blue Yonder’s S&OP was the only solution that fulfilled the functional requirements of volume planning and production maturity. The new solution linked a lot of single processes into one tool, combining demand planning activities with capacity calculations and capacity confirmation to produce a constrained plan. The S&OP solution offered a combined view of planning, integrating long-term forecast with short-term production programs. Demand, supply, capacity and load were always synchronized and calculated together.
Operational Impact
  • The implementation of Blue Yonder’s S&OP solution led to a 30% reduction in planning effort.
  • The forecasting lead time was cut from four weeks to two weeks.
  • Planning errors were decreased by up to 90%.
  • Forecast adjustments were reduced by a factor of 10.
Quantitative Benefit
  • 30% reduction in planning effort.
  • 50% reduction in forecasting lead time.
  • 90% decrease in planning errors.
  • 10 times reduction in forecast adjustments.

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