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Latest Innovations in Planning Analytics on Cloud

Christopher C. Stevenson – Performance Management Strategy ExecutiveSeptember 22, 2015

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McCormick protects profit with detailed understanding of customer value and uncertain prices

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Challenge Significantly reduce the profit at risk due to volatile

commodity input prices

Solution Collect and analyze sales plan data by customer and across

over 30,000 SKUs Evaluate the resulting profit contribution of product input

in the “bill of material”

Results Diagnosed profit improvement moves ahead of time;

commodity price increases can be passed on to consumersor renegotiated with industrial customers

Conducted value engineering with operations to reformulate flavors using commodities from different regions and suppliers

TM1 and Cognos helped McCormick record $56 million in cost savings from their Comprehensive and Continuous Improvement program

McCormick is a global leader in flavor. With more than $4.0 billion in annual sales, the company manufactures, markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavorful products to the entire food industry—retail outlets, food manufacturers and food service businesses in more than 110 countries.

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