Powering Global Growth: How a Renewable Energy Leader Synchronized a Multi-Tier Supply Chain

As the demand for sustainable energy skyrockets, manufacturers face a new era of complexity—from intricate product configurations to disconnected planning across manufacturing, transportation, and installation. Discover how a global renewable energy giant moved beyond siloed spreadsheets and "tribal knowledge" to embrace o9’s AI-powered "Digital Brain." By creating a digital twin of their entire network, they achieved a step-change in forecast accuracy, slashed expedited logistics costs, and gained the real-time agility needed to lead the energy transition.

This customer was facing fundamental supply chain shifts with increasing numbers of complex configurations in the product portfolio and a rapidly growing customer base. In addition to that, the planning process for mold capacity planning, blade manufacturing, blade transportation, and blade installation at customer sites was disconnected, leading to cost and inventory issues.

Sustainability impact

Reduction of inventory and reduction of logistics expedite.

Complexity to Clarity

End-to-End Visibility

Challenge

The division lacked visibility of constraints and cost from mold capacity planning all the way to installation at customer sites.

Solution

With o9, they will get a digital twin providing visibility to demand (pipeline of opportunities), transportation, blade manufacturing, and mold manufacturing capacities and costs.

Planning in Silos

Analytics and Scenario Planning

Value Delivery

Systems Replaced

• Cognos Planner

Key Functionalities Implemented

The Enterprise Knowledge Graph is used to enable end-to-end planning, including demand, supply, transportation, and IBP. Key capabilities enabled include: what-if scenarios, trade-off evaluation in both units and currency, demand/supply balancing, incremental and interactive planning, and a digital twin that provides end-to-end visibility on cost and capacities across the entire network.

Customer Benefits

Success Factors

• o9’s platform enables real-time demand/supply synchronization, scenario planning capabilities, and the digital twin of the entire network.
• o9’s expertise and thought leadership in the renewable energy space.
• Rapid and agile development methodology.

KPI Impacted

• Improved market share via quicker response to demand or supply changes.
• Improved forecast accuracy.
• Reduced expedited logistics costs.

Resource: Go digital: supply chain transformation in the Capital Goods industry

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