Success Stories
McNaughton-McKay Success with GAINS
Delivering Improved Profits and Rapid Growth with Supply Chain Excellence.
Company Overview
For over 100 years, McNaughton-McKay has been at the heart of industrial automation distribution. They offer a wide portfolio of over 52,000 products ranging from variable frequency drives, lighting, solar, and industrial automation applications to vision systems. McNaughton-McKay helps over 5,000 customers improve their plant-floor to top floor communications, and ultimately achieve greater business success. As one of the largest Electrical Equipment Distributors in the US, they turned to GAINS to help optimize their supply chain performance.
Challenges
Streamline operations and accelerate decisions that boost service levels while simultaneously reducing excess and obsolete inventory.
Transformation Objectives
Given the highly competitive nature of the
electrical distribution industry, McNaughton-McKay had a strategic goal to provide
superior customer service. They leveraged
GAINS demand planning and multi-echelon
inventory optimization (MEIO) to improve
order fill rates, and effectively sense and
respond to changes in demand, even for low
volume items.
Reducing inventory investments was also a key objective. With GAINS, McNaughton-McKay dynamically managed total forecast error, in real-time, and then adjusted policies
and plans to meet targeted customer service levels. As a result, they optimized inventory across their portfolio to fuel smarter buys
and support growth with the same profit-maximizing
investment.
With initial results from GAINS supply chain
optimization capabilities the business
opportunities became clear:
Optimized scenario analysis gave the McNaughton-McKay team the insights they needed to confidently realign inventory and move forward faster to gain market share.
RESULTS & BENEFITS
