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Change Management Unlocks Data-Driven Supply Chain for Fertilizer Company

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⇨ Ballance Agri Nutrients, a farmer-owned fertilizer co-operative in New Zealand, struggled with manual processes and lack of data transparency.

⇨ By leveraging SAP Analytics Cloud, the company built its own solution to consolidate all relevant data.

⇨ The company saw a 60% increase in automated stock replenishment and achieved a stock service level of 99.8% against a target of 99%.

At the Mastering SAP Gold Coast conference, Jonny Reay, National Distribution Manager at Ballance, shared the evolution of the company’s end-to-end supply chain. The farmer-owned fertilizer co-operative in New Zealand struggled with manual processes and lack of data transparency, so it turned to SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and SAP Cloud Platform Integration to uncover insights into real-time inventory, demand, and logistics visibility. The team built a solution they called MyStore using SAC. MyStore consolidated all relevant data for service centers and the consignment store network. In this article, you will learn about some of the key considerations the Ballance team made when implementing its solution, what that solutions was able to deliver, and many other key insights offered at the Mastering SAP Gold Coast conference.

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