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Aperam Stainless Europe forges accurate, agile supply chain plans

Demand, production, and materials planning combine to help specialty steel-maker create value

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    Supply Chain

  • Industry

    Industrial Manufacturing

  • Platform capability

    Planning Experience

With customers worldwide, specialty steel-maker Aperam Stainless Europe must constantly adjust its supply chain plans in response to changing global conditions. Using Anaplan (connected to a central data warehouse), Aperam’s supply chain team increased forecast accuracy and reduced inventory without compromising customer service. To keep pace with relentless change, scenario analysis capabilities in Anaplan enable the team to respond to evolving business needs in an agile way.


With Anaplan, we are able to do multiple scenarios to adapt parameters and granularity in a couple of minutes.
Paul Aubrun, Head of Supply Chain Tools and Excellence, Aperam Stainless Europe

5-10%

increase in forecast accuracy reduces over- and under-production

20%

reduction in inventory frees up cash

Fast

scenario analysis supports better decision-making


Large steel coils stacked inside an industrial warehouse with a crane lifting a metal coil.
Industrial machinery lifting a glowing hot steel slab inside a manufacturing facility.

Paul Aubrun, Aperam Stainless Europe: Aperam is a global company with activities spanning stainless and electrical steel, alloys and specialty steel, as well as recycling and renewables, with customers in over 40 countries on all continents. We are committed to establish as a leading value creator in the circular economy of infinite, world-changing materials.  

Our key Anaplan use cases are demand planning, production macro-planning, and raw materials planning.  

Since we started our Anaplan journey, we had a forecast accuracy improvement by 5 to 10% and a stock inventories reduction by 20%.  

For our Anaplan models, we made the choice to connect to our centralized data warehouse to take benefit from all our data preparations and grouping dimensions we have there.  

With Anaplan, we are able to do multiple scenarios to adapt parameters and granularity in a couple of minutes or hours, and to have this all along our models in a reactive way. What I like most about Anaplan is to feel that sky is the limit, that I can follow the evolving business needs in an agile way. 

I’m Paul Aubrun, Head of Supply Chain Tools and Excellence at Aperam Stainless Europe, and we plan with Anaplan.