Business Challenge
To succeed in the global market, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke sought a
technology solution that would enable the company to improve efciency
and deliver goods to customers quickly and on time.
Business Solutions
• JDA® Order Promiser
• JDA® Factory Planner
• JDA® Material Allocator
• JDA® Supply Chain Planner
Business Benefts
• Reduced order processing time rom ve days to less than one day online
• Reduced work-in-progress inventories and raw materials by 20 percent
• Improved on-time deliveries rom 60 percent to 85 percent
• Reduced lead time rom ve weeks to our weeks
Deutsche Edelstahlwerke
Fast Facts
Industry
Manuacturing - Automotive & Industrials
Headquarters
Witten, Germany
Description
Deutsche Edelstahlwerke’s extensive product
oering ranges rom small-diameter drawn
wire to orgings o up to 1,100 mm in diameter
and includes engineering steels, tool steels
and stainless steels. In addition, the company
produces Ferro-Titanit®, a powder metallurgical
titanium carbide material that can be urther heat
treated. The materials produced by Deutsche
Edelstahlwerke are used in the automotive,
aerospace, power generation, oil and gas, and
tooling industries.
“We selected JDA because it has the
most experience in factory planning
for the steel industry and compared to
other vendors, its solution was clearly
the best.”
- Hans Dieter Nase,
director of production planning
and order management,
Deutsche Edelstahlwerke
Improving On-Time Delivery at Deutsche Edelstahlwerke
Strengthening Customer Service
Case Study
Like many steel manuacturers, Deutsche
Edelstahlwerke GmbH (DEW) has very
complex production processes. It produces
40,000 dierent varieties o steel products,
each o which involves up to 10 production
stages, including melting, rolling, orging,
sawing, adjusting and testing.
The company’s inability to eectively plan
this production across its three plants
stood in the way o improved customer
service. “We had our stand-alone
production planning systems with very
limited connections between them,” says
Hans Dieter Nase, DEW’s director o
production planning and order
management. “This clearly hampered
our ability to optimize throughput at our
plants and prevented us rom making
accurate orecasts on delivery times or
customers.”
DEW’s goals were clear. To succeed in the
global market, the company needed to
improve efciency and deliver goods to
customers quickly and on time.
Why JDA?
DEW had already implemented an
enterprise resource planning system, but
the production planning unctionality that
the system oered did not meet the
demand o a complex steel production. The
company thereore decided to look to other
vendors or an appropriate solution.
It considered various product oerings
beore selecting JDA’s solutions or supply
chain management. “We selected JDA
because it has the most experience in
actory planning or the steel industry and
compared to other vendors, its solution was
clearly the best,” Nase said.
JDA provides all o the solutions, content
and platorm required or companies to
improve their operational efciency and
participate in online marketplaces. DEW
initially opted or the actory planning
module and is now adding to this with
modules or master planning, delivery
orecasting (DEW’s order promising) and
materials allocation.
DEW has implemented a variety o JDA
solutions, including JDA® Order Promiser,
JDA® Factory Planner, JDA® Material
Allocator and JDA® Supply Chain Planner.
JDA’s Contribution
The implementation o JDA solutions has
created a dynamic production planning
environment or DEW. “The JDA solution
is a very efcient tool or adapting the
planning parameters and is exible or
adding additional products and resources
to production,” Nase said. “Modeling is
very easy and eective.”
JDA solutions have also added
tremendous exibility in the planning
process – something that did not exist at
DEW prior to the implementation. “Our
previous systems were very inexible and
only allowed or planning once a week,”
Nase said. “With the JDA solution we can
plan every day, in real time, and adapt our
production to reect new situations and
new orders as they occur.”
DEW’s Results
The improvements at DEW ollowing the
implementation o JDA solutions are
clearly evident. DEW has been successul
in improving its ability to deliver on time
rom 60 percent to 85 percent. It has
shortened its lead time by 25 percent
and reduced work-in-progress stock by
25 percent.
All o this not only improves customer
service, but also delivers tangible benets
to the bottom line. JDA solutions have
made light work o the complex
production environment at DEW. Despite
introducing an even more complicated
product mix, DEW has still managed to
increase its production with the use o the
JDA solution.
“We have had a very good experience
working with JDA,” Nase said. “We have
become more competitive and improved
our customer service by streamlining our
entire planning processes rom order
request through production to delivery.”
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