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Collier & Associates brand mark featuring the core services: Business Transformation; Enterprise Systems; AI-Enabled Execution.

$1.5B Feed, Seed & Fertilizer Cooperative — 7 Feed Mills, 5 Fertilizer Plants, Seed Processing, and Retail · Project 3 of 6

Client Challenge

  • Each mill spent more than 3 hours a day on manual planning and scheduling

  • Purchasing was fragmented mill by mill, with no corporate leverage over suppliers

Client Solution

  • Level 1 — Corporate: Centralized planning and scheduling — consolidated forecasts, auto-generated Blanket Purchase Orders per mill

  • Level 2 — Mill: Decentralized execution — mill managers release purchase orders against corporate blanket POs

Client Impact Results

  • Daily mill planning reduced from over 3 hours to under 30 minutes

  • Corporate purchasing leverage significantly reduced costs

Client Technologies

  • JDE Forecasting, DRP/MRP, Blanket Purchase Orders, Supplier Scheduling

  • Two-level SIOP framework

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