Discount Tire

Discount Tire is a very large tire retailer. We have 1200 stores across the United States and also a very large dot-com business, a tire rack and full service stores, Dunn Tire and Suburban and Ellisville. We predict about a million article locations every single day and across a localized assortment by store. Our legacy systems were really old. We didn't have connected forecasting and replenishment. Blue Yonder is really best in class for what we're trying to accomplish, which is at scale having very granular demand planning, being able to have very comprehensive supply planning and then being able to order and forecast for a large set of stores every single day. We relied on Blue Yonder to help us think through the design that we implemented to certainly validate some of our ass And we leveraged Blue Yonder for training our team as well, which was a really critical success factor. Production planning has been critical just because the AI is able to re-forecast at a very, very granular level, item location level every single day and then every single week for an extended period of time. Our results have been great. I mean, we've seen a 600 basis point improvement in our forecast accuracy that's 90 days out, which is so critical to giving our suppliers the right signal for production. That's allowed our suppliers to improve their fill to order by a thousand basis points, which has been essential in us cutting our out of stocks by 40%. And our store feedback has been very positive since we've done this implementation, which just gives me a lot of confidence that the n