Leading poultry producer and exporter in Southeast Europe, part of a major European agricultural group:
3 business units
400 active SKUs
No formal demand planning process in place.
Commercial and production teams operated independently, with no shared forecast and no structured planning rhythm.
Inconsistent service levels, reactive rather than planned inventory decisions.
Ran a full SAP IBP S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) implementation integrated with SAP S/4HANA.
Designed the planning process, configured the system, trained the team, and took the project from kickoff to full go-live in 14 weeks — half the 28-week industry average.
Delivered on a fixed fee with zero change orders.
Service level reached 97% post go-live.
Forecast accuracy improved from 67% to 86%.
A monthly S&OP cycle was up and running within six weeks of go-live, replacing ad-hoc planning meetings across all three business units.
The planning optimizer runs in 5–15 minutes covering approximately 4,000 labeled SKUs and 50,000 customer-product combinations.