Tempur-Pedic Select Supply Chain Consultants
Wednesday July 1, 2009
Tempur-Pedic, the manufacturer and distributor of premium mattresses made from a viscoelastic, temperature sensitive material, has chosen a suite of supply chain management solutions from Supply Chain Consultants (SCC). Tempur-Pedic will implement SCC’s Zemeter Demand Planner, Replenishment Planning, Azimuth S&OP management reporting tool, and the Performance Management Dashboard tool. Other mattress companies have not been successful with their supply chain software. Select Comfort terminated its SAP implementation after two years and $20 million, which led to a loss of 120 employees.
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Temper-Pedic also selected Optiant’s PowerChain® Selected to Meet Strategic and Tactical Goals for Inventory Optimization
Optiant, the premier provider of inventory planning and inventory optimization solutions, announces that Tempur-Pedic has selected Optiant’s PowerChain inventory and supply chain optimization suite. Tempur-Pedic International is the leading manufacturer, marketer and distributor of premium mattress and pillows worldwide. Tempur-Pedic will employ Optiant’s PowerChain Suite to achieve both strategic and tactical goals within its supply chain operations.
Tempur-Pedic’s initiatives call for both a streamlined supply chain network and elevated levels of customer service. Achieving this goal lies in their ability to unlock different options with the advanced techniques offered by PowerChain. They require an end-to-end planning solution that can deliver holistic optimizations across the business.
Optiant’s PowerChain Suite sets optimal safety stock levels, positions inventory, establishes rules for replenishment, and optimizes inventory policies.
“Optiant is proud to work with industry leaders as we deliver multi-echelon inventory optimization and supply chain network design solutions. We respect Tempur-Pedic’s leadership in the consumer products industry and look forward to a great collaborative relationship,” said Fred Lizza, Optiant CEO.
Optiant’s PowerChain provides a comprehensive set of tools that builds business intelligence and creates strategies to improve the performance of inventory, helping businesses make more informed decisions about their inventory practices.
In our experiences with inventory and supply chain optimization, it’s important to have a customizable software solution that it run by a very competent and creative inventory manager.
The hardest part is to get all of the good ideas to fruition, and if the software is not flexible, it’s not going to work.