Cosmetics Manufacturer
Revolution Beauty
From fragmented, tedious planning to agility
and visibility with an integrated, end-to-end APS
in just 12 Weeks.
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Challenge
Revolution Beauty, is known for its rapid innovation, social media savviness, andglobal reach across more than 75 markets. The company pursues a clear mission:to bring affordable products to market in the shortest possible time. With thegrowing business, the existing approach of forecasting in a separate system, and building the consensus plan and the supply plans in Excel, became slow, error-prone and unmanageable.
Solution
To keep pace with its dynamic growth, Revolution Beauty launched a comprehensivetrans formation aimed not just at upgrading technology but at building a digitally enabled operating model to support strategic expansion. A critical success factor was the adoption of the S&OX© process framework from msee2e solutions. By integrating S&OP, S&OE, and disruption management into one consistent approach, S&OX© provides a detailed and cohesive model that fully leverages Kinaxis Maestro. This tight alignment between process and technology enabled a remarkably fast implementation.
Result
Revolution Beauty and mse e2e solutions achieved operational go-live after just 12 weeks – a first in the Kinaxis ecosystem. The solution fully covers demand,inventory, and supply planning, replacing manual, Excel-based processes withvisibility and clarity.
The result: shorter lead times, improved decision-making, and significantly increased agility.
We're now able to answer questions quickly, assess multiple scenarios
simultaneously and make decisions with significantly greater agility.
Future‑Proofing Demand Planning
Identified as key competitive differentiator. Strong need to strengthen the SC planning to support future growth
weeks to go live
Inventory Reduction
e2e-poweredSC planning
Milestones
Production-Ready Planning Platform in 12 Weeks
The plugNplan methodology accelerated deployment and user adoption, enabling a fully operational Maestro implementation in just 12 weeks. Strong executive alignment, rapid issue resolution, and an early Solution Blueprint reduced project risk and accelerated time-to-value.
25% Inventory Reduction While Enabling Growth
The transformation reduced inventory by more than 25% without constraining business growth. Improved planning agility and decision-making efficiency created the foundation for continued expansion and improved working capital performance.
One Platform, One Process, One View of the Business
By combining the S&OX operating model with Maestro's advanced planning capabilities, the organization established a single planning environment with shared visibility across functions. This enabled faster decisions, stronger alignment, and more effective end-to-end supply chain management.
Dan Motterham – Head of Demand & Supply Planning – Lead of the plugNplan implementation