British BSkyB is both the UK’s largest digital satellite television platform and the fastest growing broadband provider. BSkyB is an endlessly innovating provider of broadcast sports, movies, entertainment, news and broadband services.
Throughout the UK and Ireland, BSkyB’s operation covers over 100 bulk stock holding locations and over 1,800 engineer van stock locations. The business moves 40,000 stock items a day and handles at least 30 purchase orders a week and 500 internal stock movement orders a day, each with an average of six lines per order. This supply chain – more than 350 stock keeping units (SKUs) and half a million products is together worth over £25m and was becoming a logistical challenge to manage.
BSkyB required a Supply Chain Management solution which would simplify and improve inventory control, demand planning and purchasing. It chose the IFS supply chain module focussing on inventory, the demand planner, parts of planning and some of purchasing.
