With more than 250,000 registered parts – and customers expecting quick deliveries through - out Europe – Lantmännen Maskin really needed an efficient supply chain. To achieve this objective, the company selected Syncron as its partner. Within a short time, Lantmännen Maskin could see results: increased service levels, doubled inventory turn-over, and improved
profitability.
“To provide customers in agriculture and other sectors with similar needs with the market’s most reliable partner-ship for machines, service, and spare parts.” This is Lantmännen Maskin’s business concept — a company that imports, markets, and sells agricul-tural machines to customers in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The central ware-
house serves the entire region with rapid parts delivery. With a customer propo-sition that involves 250,000 registered parts, a history of mergers and acquisi-tions of various brands, and a network of 160 retailers around the region, the company’s supply chain is complex — to say the least.
Like all other industrial equipmentvendors, customer service levels con-stitute a primary tool for ensuring thatLantmännen Maskin stays on the leadingedge. Throughout the years, enhancingservice levels was a growing challenge, with increasing demand for instant re-sponses to customer needs.
“When our end customers needspare parts,” says Claes Hersner, projectmanager at Lantmännen Maskin, “they have to get the delivery quickly — ideally at the same moment that the need arises.”
Search for a specialist
One of Lantmännen Maskin’s main chall- enges was to increase service levels, while keeping inventory levels at a minimum. Various ERP projects had previously been initiated to streamline logistics, but none of the implemented projects led to satisfy-
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Lantmännen cultivates profitability
The challengeWith more than 250,000 regis-tered parts and a network of160 dealers around Europe,Lantmännen Maskin, agriculturalequipment vendor, needed tocreate an efficient supply chainto ensure competitive customerservice levels while keepinginventory levels to a minimum.
The solutionSyncron’s Global Inventory Management solution
The results● Central warehouse service levels increased from 88% to 96%● Inventory turnover doubled● Improved bottom-line per formance● Complete visibility across the supply chain
About Lantmännen MaskinLantmännen is one of Europe slargest groups within the food,energy, and agricultural indus-tries. Lantmännen is owned by42,000 Swedish farmers. It operates in 19 countries, employs 12,000 people, and reports annual sales of US$ 5.6 billion.
Lantmännen Maskin, one ofLantmännen’s business divsions,represents these brands: Valtra,Fendt, and Claas. LantmännenMaskin is responsible for the entire supply chain—from pur-chasing to sales. The company covers distribution in Denmark and Norway via its subsidiaries. It employs 900 people and turns over US$ 677 million. Find out more at
www.lantmannenmaskin.com
SYNCRON CASE STUDY
ing results. Lantmännen Maskin decidedto look for a specialized partner with cutting-edge supply chain experience.
After exploring the market, the choice eventually fell on Syncron— due to its planning, forecasting, and replenishment solutions, its ability to ensure total control over the entire value chain, and its short implemen-tation time.
While ERP systems are based on historic data, the Syncron Global Inventory Management solution of-fers sophisticated forecasting and planning functions that are based on highly developed algorithms. In real time, Syncron’s solution calculates and reports what and how many products should be ordered-ensuring that the right goods are at the right place in the right time and in the right quantity- throughout the entire supply chain.
Bottom-line results in no time
Syncron’s web-based solution was easily implemented by placing an application layer on top of Lantmännen Maskin’s existing ERP system. Since then, the company has rapidly improved control and management of its complex supply chain.
Peace of mind and increased customer focus
Besides the bottom-line impact, the auto-mated processes provide the company’s logistics organization with peace of mind in its daily operations.
“Syncron’s solution delivers data from all parts of the business, which facilitates long-term forecasting and enables us to be proactive,” says Klas Gustafsson, logistics manager at Lant-männen Maskin. “Now our employeescan focus on serving customers rather than on ordering items from our suppliers.”
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“Within a couple of months,we saw clear results from theSyncron implementation. Weincreased our central warehouseservice levels from 88% to 96% - far exceeding our expectations.At the same time, we doubled the speed of inventory turnover. Taken together, these results considerablyimprove our bottom-line.”
SYNCRON CASE STUDYLANTMäNNEN MASkiN
About Syncron
Syncron maximizes global sup-ply chain performance, easily. Our groundbreaking IT solution, leverag-ing existing IT infrastructure, is rapidly implemented. Within six to twelve months, it yields performance im-provements of 20-30% in three major areas: customer service levels, supply chain process efficiencies and stock level reductions. We deliver superior results to our customers through combining software expertise with extensive experience from selected industry sectors within manufacturing and distribution. To stay ahead, many world-leading global companies have chosen Syncron: Alfa Laval, Atlas Copco, Electrolux, Metso, Renault Trucks, Sandvik, Smiths Aerospace, Tetra Pak, Toyota, Trelleborg, Volvo and VW. Syncron has offices around the world.
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