Overview
- Industry: Automotive supplier / Tier 1
- Challenge: Manual inbound planning, numerous variants and volatile call-offs, lack of transparency from MRP results to actual loading
- Goal: Make planning logic more dynamic, increase transparency, standardize inbound processes worldwide, and ensure decisions are traceable
Initial situation
Yanfeng is one of the world’s largest developers and manufacturers of automotive interior components. The company supplies international automakers with complex interior systems, relying heavily on innovation, global production networks, and state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies. In the inbound process, however, it became clear that manual routines, static rules, and a high degree of product variety made end-to-end planning difficult. Dynamic demand clashed with rigid processes, and there was a lack of transparency regarding material flows, container logic, and loading. A transformation was necessary to make the supply chain complexity manageable.
Our shared path to success
In collaboration with S2data, the inbound planning process was overhauled. We moved away from manual decisions toward a systematic, end-to-end approach. Planning was standardized across plant boundaries, call-offs were structured, and decisions became more transparent. The result: greater clarity regarding requirements and constraints, fewer operational loops, and significantly more stable management of day-to-day operations.
Solution
In our full success story, we show how Yanfeng converts MRP results into transport-optimized calls, how packaging and container logic are taken into account, and how milk run planning has been tactically improved—including insights into the approach, parameterization, and global rollout.