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Improving Asset Management and Order Fulfillment at Deere & Company's C&CE Division

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  • Loren Troyer

    (Deere & Company, 1 John Deere, Moline, Illinois 61265)

  • James Smith

    (Deere & Company, 1 John Deere, Moline, Illinois 61265)

  • Sean Marshall

    (Deere & Company, 1 John Deere, Moline, Illinois 61265)

  • Elan Yaniv

    (Deere & Company, 1 John Deere, Moline, Illinois 61265)

  • Sridhar Tayur

    (SmartOps Corporation, One North Shore Center, 12 Federal Street, Suite 400, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212)

  • Martin Barkman

    (SmartOps Corporation, One North Shore Center, 12 Federal Street, Suite 400, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212)

  • Alev Kaya

    (SmartOps Corporation, One North Shore Center, 12 Federal Street, Suite 400, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212)

  • Yong Liu

    (SmartOps Corporation, One North Shore Center, 12 Federal Street, Suite 400, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212)

Abstract

In 2001, Deere's Commercial and Consumer Equipment (C&CE) Division, with growing sales of $3 billion, set out to improve its on-time delivery from plants to dealers and to reduce its inventory while maintaining customer service levels. C&CE used state-of-the-art inventory optimization techniques embedded in SmartOps' multistage inventory planning and optimization (MIPO) product to set trustworthy weekly inventory targets. C&CE used these targets, together with appropriate dealer incentives, to transform to a pull system and exceed its goals. With 2,500 dealers, 100 product families, and a 26-week planning horizon, Deere's application of multiechelon inventory optimization may be the largest example of applied stochastic inventory theory in practice in a multiagent environment. With the enterprise-wide system integration, Deere improved its factories' on-time shipments from 63 percent to 92 percent, while maintaining customer service levels at 90 percent. Between 2001 and 2003, Deere reduced or avoided inventory by $890 million, improving annual shareholder value added (SVA) by $107 million. By the end of 2004, the C&CE Division will exceed its goal in $1 billion of inventory reduction or avoidance, a year ahead of schedule.

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  • Loren Troyer & James Smith & Sean Marshall & Elan Yaniv & Sridhar Tayur & Martin Barkman & Alev Kaya & Yong Liu, 2005. "Improving Asset Management and Order Fulfillment at Deere & Company's C&CE Division," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 35(1), pages 76-87, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:35:y:2005:i:1:p:76-87
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.1040.0110
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