Like many brands with complex supply chains, components, raw materials, and packaging, added many extra layers to the planning process. The team had to account for multiple lead times, delays, and shared components while making sure they had enough in the first place. This tedious process easily lent itself to delays in the production of finished goods. The planner found herself spending the majority of her time monitoring and inputting data which left little time for strategic planning.

“Back when we were doing a few products at a time I had a spreadsheet. But when production got more complicated, I couldn’t focus on a lot of planning because I was executing.”

With a storefront integration, True Botanicals was able to actualize sales daily in Fuse. This allowed the operations team to generate a forecast, at any time, with up-to-date sales trends and seasonality. By eliminating the need for constant manual updates in Excel, True Botanicals was able to focus on making more strategic forecast adjustments using Fuse’s events forecasting module.

True Botanicals was also able to manage finished goods and components in Fuse. In Fuse, they created a bill of materials for each of their finished goods and assigned lead times and weeks of supply targets at the component level. Fuse’s smart order recommendations then told True Botanicals what to buy, when to buy, and how much to buy, in order to have all components arrive at the right time to meet demand for each of their finished goods.

By eliminating the manual upkeep and centralization of data, True Botanicals is better able to manage component inventory. The team uses Fuse’s BOM feature to track component data, as well as receive detailed sales and forecasting reports for both selling units and components. Fuse helps free up time to spend on strategic decision making instead of redundant data updates.

“Since I don’t have to spend all my time in spreadsheets tracking numbers and doing things manually, I can spend more time thinking strategically about how I can help the business grow.”