BYK: Better Predicting Demand in Ever-Changing Times with Demand Planning Software in the Cloud
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As a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals, BYK produces innovative additives
and differentiated solutions to optimize product and material properties as well as enhance
production and application processes. Among other things, BYK’s additives improve
scratch resistance and surface gloss, the mechanical strength or flow behavior of
materials, and properties such as light stability and flame retardancy.
With the discontinuance of the company’s legacy demand planning application, BYK was
relying on disconnected planning tools and manual processes that impeded forecast
accuracy. Lacking planning visibility across its organization, the company sought expert
help to implement a new solution in the cloud. The goal was to enhance data and
process transparency and establish one source of truth for sales, operations, and
demand planning processes.
BYK: Better Predicting Demand in
Ever-Changing Times with Demand
Planning Software in the Cloud
Picture Credit | Customer Name, City, State/Country. Used with permission.
As a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals, BYK produces innovative additives
and differentiated solutions to optimize product and material properties as well as enhance
production and application processes. Among other things, BYK’s additives improve
scratch resistance and surface gloss, the mechanical strength or flow behavior of
materials, and properties such as light stability and flame retardancy.
With the discontinuance of the company’s legacy demand planning application, BYK was
relying on disconnected planning tools and manual processes that impeded forecast
accuracy. Lacking planning visibility across its organization, the company sought expert
help to implement a new solution in the cloud. The goal was to enhance data and
process transparency and establish one source of truth for sales, operations, and
demand planning processes.
BYK: Better Predicting Demand in
Ever-Changing Times with Demand
Planning Software in the Cloud
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Featured Solutions and Services
SAP Integrated Business Planning for
demand, SAP Supply Chain Control
Tower, SAP Services and Support, and
SAP Preferred Success
Revenue
>€1 billion
Employees
>2,500
Products and Services
Chemical additives for use in coatings,
printing inks, plastics, adhesives and
sealants, cleaners, floor coatings,
lubricants, batteries, and more
Industry
Chemicals
BYK
Wesel,
Germany
www.byk.com
Employees enabled with a
powerful, integrated planning
tool
>200
Unified source of data for
demand planning
One
“With SAP Services and Support, we successfully
implemented SAP Integrated Business Planning for
demand and SAP Supply Chain Control Tower,
enabling precise and accurate demand planning.
This is critical to our supply chain efficiency and in
delivering quality service to our customers.”
Matthias Beenen, Supply Chain Process Management, BYK
Before: Challenges and Opportunities
• Discontinuance of legacy software for demand planning processes
• Disparate and nonharmonized planning tools used across the organization
• Suboptimal forecast quality from nontransparent data and processes
Why SAP
• Comprehensive capabilities to optimize demand planning processes and improve forecasting accuracy
offered by the SAP Integrated Business Planning application for demand
• Configuration focus, allowing cloud software potential to be maximized
• Architecture planning, implementation guidance, and process reengineering expertise from SAP Services
and Support and the SAP Preferred Success service in deploying the demand application and the
SAP Supply Chain Control Tower solution in a technically standardized way
• Process harmonization for global sales and operations demand planning and an integrated supply and
controlling process
After: Value-Driven Results
• Simplified and integrated planning practices for sales, demand planning, supply chain management,
controlling, and strategic supply planning teams
• Created one source of truth and improved data and process transparency among sales, operations,
and demand planning processes
• Increased forecasting accuracy with real-time data reflecting changes to the planned demand
• Established quantity and value-based planning for all planning teams to make decisions based on
financial impact
Improving Forecast Accuracy with the SAP Integrated Business
Planning Application for Demand and SAP Services and Support
sap.com/terms-of-use
Featured Solutions and Services
SAP Integrated Business Planning for
demand, SAP Supply Chain Control
Tower, SAP Services and Support, and
SAP Preferred Success
Revenue
>€1 billion
Employees
>2,500
Products and Services
Chemical additives for use in coatings,
printing inks, plastics, adhesives and
sealants, cleaners, floor coatings,
lubricants, batteries, and more
Industry
Chemicals
BYK
Wesel,
Germany
www.byk.com
Employees enabled with a
powerful, integrated planning
tool
>200
Unified source of data for
demand planning
One
“With SAP Services and Support, we successfully
implemented SAP Integrated Business Planning for
demand and SAP Supply Chain Control Tower,
enabling precise and accurate demand planning.
This is critical to our supply chain efficiency and in
delivering quality service to our customers.”
Matthias Beenen, Supply Chain Process Management, BYK
Before: Challenges and Opportunities
• Discontinuance of legacy software for demand planning processes
• Disparate and nonharmonized planning tools used across the organization
• Suboptimal forecast quality from nontransparent data and processes
Why SAP
• Comprehensive capabilities to optimize demand planning processes and improve forecasting accuracy
offered by the SAP Integrated Business Planning application for demand
• Configuration focus, allowing cloud software potential to be maximized
• Architecture planning, implementation guidance, and process reengineering expertise from SAP Services
and Support and the SAP Preferred Success service in deploying the demand application and the
SAP Supply Chain Control Tower solution in a technically standardized way
• Process harmonization for global sales and operations demand planning and an integrated supply and
controlling process
After: Value-Driven Results
• Simplified and integrated planning practices for sales, demand planning, supply chain management,
controlling, and strategic supply planning teams
• Created one source of truth and improved data and process transparency among sales, operations,
and demand planning processes
• Increased forecasting accuracy with real-time data reflecting changes to the planned demand
• Established quantity and value-based planning for all planning teams to make decisions based on
financial impact
Improving Forecast Accuracy with the SAP Integrated Business
Planning Application for Demand and SAP Services and Support