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Nikon
Sales & operations planning for more accurate and flexible processes.
About Nikon
Headquartered in Tokyo, Nikon Corporation is the world leader in digital imaging, precision optics and photo imaging technology. Nikon has three major divisions, the largest of which is the Imaging Products division, consisting largely of digital cameras, film cameras, lenses, photographic accessories, software and other products. The Imaging Products division has manufacturing and sales sites throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America and ships more than 100 million cameras each year.
The Challenge and Benefit
In the explosive digital imaging marketplace, Nikon faces challenging business conditions and rising competitive pressures. The multiple planning processes and systems Nikon implemented over the years proved to be unfit to support short product lifecycles and the ever-growing number of plan exceptions resulting from volatility in demand and supply. Ultimately, the company’s systems and its use of various Excel spreadsheets were perpetuating long planning cycles and manual processes, which were at direct odds with the fast-paced nature of the industry.
Upon assessing a number of solutions, Nikon concluded that Kinaxis RapidResponse was the best – and only – solution that could address the company’s full spectrum of requirements.
Overall, the solution provides Nikon with the ability to access accurate and up-to-date information in a flexible, easy-to-use spreadsheet interface embedded with powerful analytics that is automatically populated with live data feeds from Nikon’s existing transactional system. With information from multiple sites and divisions consolidated in RapidResponse, users are able to model data in real time to instantly simulate and share countless what-next demand and supply scenarios, facilitating more accurate planning and the necessary mid-cycle assessments that can ensure ongoing alignment of daily actions (and reactions) with Nikon’s critical corporate goals.
Nikon saw great results – you can too
Kinaxis delivers the agility to make fast, confident decisions across your integrated business planning and digital supply chain.