COMPANY: Cabot Creamery
WEBSITE: www.cabotcheese.coop
INDUSTRY: Food & Beverage
COMPANY TYPE: Private
JOHN GALT SOLUTION: Atlas Planning Platform
Company
Cabot Creamery is a cooperative of more than 800 dairy farm families located throughout New York and New England. Cabot manages four plants in three states, employing over 1,000 people who make “The World’s Best” cheese and dairy products. Cabot distributes these products in its own stores, online, and at grocers nationwide.
Challenge
Previous to John Galt Solutions, Cabot struggled with its forecasting process. They lacked a statistical modeling tool and therefore had trouble calculating forecast accuracy. They had limited visibility into orders, shipments, forecast, and budget, as these were managed in separate systems, which created needless and inefficient team interactions. Cabot was also unable to forecast per customer or aggregate the forecast to provide a consolidated demand number for production. This led to production wastefulness and large amounts of unsaleable product. Because of these challenges, the company’s expenses were unnecessarily high. Cabot needed a solution that could remedy these inefficiencies, improve their process and reduce costs.
Solution
Cabot sought a solution that could make improvements in their process, provide visibility across the organization as well as measure and increase forecast accuracy. After an extensive search, Cabot chose John Galt Solutions’ Atlas Planning Platform. The Atlas Platform is able to solve Cabot’s challenges today and grow with them as their processes matured.
One of the key factors for the Atlas Planning Platform is how user friendly and intuitive the system is combined with the simplicity of set up and the ability to quickly make adjustments to the configuration. In addition, Atlas delivers several benefits, including:
- Excellent exception reporting
- New product forecasting
- Event and promotion forecasting
- Multiple regression analysis
Working closely together, Cabot and John Galt Solutions helped refine their processes and delivered the solution in just three months.
Benefit
Cabot Cheese has experienced numerous benefits on both the demand and supply planning sides since implementing the Atlas Planning Platform, resulting in reduced costs across the board.
Forecast accuracy has improved markedly as well as the ability to measure improvements over time. Additionally, the dynamic forecast reporting to the executive planning team has enabled better communication and enhanced collaboration. These advances have allowed Cabot to realize tangible benefits on the supply side as well. Enhanced capacity planning has improved production efficiency. This has reduced inventory carrying costs as well as unsaleable product costs significantly. Cabot has captured real bottom line improvements since implementing Atlas Planning Platform.
“The customer experience with John Galt has been excellent. John Galt listened to our needs and delivered what we needed when we needed it. They have been a great partner and we look forward to continuing to work with them.”
