Kekkilä-BVB is the European market leader in professional growing media solutions, providing high-quality substrates and services to horticultural companies and consumers in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Kekkilä-BVB prides itself on having a strong focus on customer success and strives to deliver all products on time. Not an easy task given the thousands of customized products and high seasonality. This, combined with their core value of daring to innovate, led them to use Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) system. By combining the expertise of the planners at Kekkilä-BVB with the strength of APS, we were able to show impressive results.

APS was able to deliver 3-5% more orders on time (almost 100%), while using 5-10% less time and reducing maximum inventory in storage by 15-30%. Impressive results, especially considering that they were achieved based on data from 2020, when Covid 19 provided for a highly fluctuating demand and planning had never been such a difficult task.

APS is applied in 3 of their Dutch plants.