case studies
Success stories with Sactona
Imaging Solutions Division, Fujifilm Corporation
What used to take two days to collect PSI from each country's sales bases and combine it into consolidated PSI can now be done in an instant.
| What the client says |
"Because it is an Excel-based system, it is easy to use even by members of sales offices in each country. In addition, the dramatic increase in the speed of forecast aggregation has improved flexibility by enabling decisions on increases and decreases in production to be made at any time, and it has also allowed the SCM Group to devote more effort to tasks that should be its main focus, such as long-term demand forecasting. In the future, we would like to expand the scope of Sactona's use as a business infrastructure by linking PSI data with sales management operations and promoting its use for other product groups within the division." |
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| Background at the time of introduction | The Imaging Solutions Division of Fujifilm places a high priority on generating cash flow, and it was urgent that we reform the supply chain for the X series of mirrorless digital cameras, which are the main products of this division. To manage the demand fluctuations of hundreds of SKUs in a timely and efficient manner, we began to consider measures to improve inventory management accuracy by conducting weekly forecasts with sales offices in each country. In order to convert the current monthly operations to weekly operations, we needed to speed up the huge amount of Excel work that spanned multiple departments, and this became the key bottleneck that led us to consider introducing a system. |
| Decisive factors for selecting Sactona |
■Using a PSI table designed in Excel, it is possible to build a company information sharing platform with domestic and overseas sales in a short period of time. ■Effort for user-side testing and operation training can be significantly reduced, making introduction and deployment to user departments more efficient. ■Optimal balance between necessary functions and price, allowing for gradual expansion at a reasonable price |
| Business overview | Provision of products and services related to healthcare (medical systems, consumer healthcare, pharmaceuticals, bio CDMO, regenerative medicine), materials (high-performance materials, graphic systems/inkjet, recording media), and imaging (photo imaging, optical electronic imaging) |
| Link | https://www.fujifilm.com/jp/en |