One platform, three planning teams: ACCO Brands on Lyric Studio

Every Kensington privacy screen starts as a puzzle: how many fit on one sheet of raw material without wasting any of it? It used to take an engineer and a planner three to four days. Vijay Ganti, Director of Supply Chain Analytics at ACCO Brands, has seen Lyric Studio cut that to under an hour. ACCO Brands is the consumer products company behind Kensington, Swingline and Mead. Before Lyric Studio, work ran across several tools, and every time one study fed the next, the data had to be validated and transformed.

What changed with Lyric Studio:
• Demand, supply and transportation teams working in one platform at the same time
• Network, inventory and planning work in one place
• Cutting templates sent straight to the laser cutter

Next is container loading, where lifting fill rates from 75-80% toward 90-95% could save $300K to $500K in inbound costs. Pick path optimization follows, and then every operational decision inside the four walls of the distribution center. Vijay says the team has "barely scratched the surface."