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Blending Growth and Automation at Wolf Oil Corporation
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When a company scales as fast as Wolf Oil Corporation, its supply chain must keep pace. Over the past decade, the Belgian lubricant manufacturer significantly expanded its global footprint with more employees, more regions, more products and more complexity. To support this growth, Wolf Oil needed a smarter and future proof way to plan, balance and steer its end to end supply chain.
With more than 560 products, deliveries to 127 countries and a legacy that dates back to 1955, Wolf Oil operates in a demanding and highly dynamic environment. Market volatility, rising sustainability expectations and the need to optimize internal processes made it clear that the existing planning setup required a complete rethink.
A Strategic Shift in Supply Chain Planning
Wolf Oil introduced a new supply chain approach built on three core pillars:
- Demand, Inventory and Supply Chain Planning
• Life Cycle Management
• Transportation and Third Party Logistics Management
These pillars helped structure the organization around the well-known Supply Chain Triangle of Service, Cost and Cash. This created a stronger foundation for growth without compromising stability. As Frederic Van delm, Supply Chain Planning and Logistics Lead, explains:
“While growing, it became more and more clear we had to keep our supply chain in balance. Starting from the Supply Chain Triangle, we expanded our team and defined clear roles so the new S&OP processes could flow smoothly.”
Managing Change in a Transforming Market
Wolf Oil’s evolution was not only about technology. It also required people to embrace new ways of working. Changing raw material bases, diversifying the product portfolio and dealing with external shocks such as the pandemic only increased the importance of engaging the organization.
Frederic highlights the role of change management:
“Engaging and motivating people was essential. Those closely involved quickly saw the benefits, giving us confidence others will follow.”
Why Wolf Oil Chose Arkieva
To accelerate their transformation, Wolf Oil partnered with Solventure and selected the Arkieva Advanced Planning and Scheduling platform as their new planning backbone.
Arkieva proved to be a strong match because it is easy to use, online, scalable, cost friendly and designed by planning experts. It also aligns naturally with the complexity of Wolf Oil’s planning environment.
The first results already show a more robust, balanced and future ready planning process.
“I am certain it will make our supply chain planning future proof again.”
About Solventure
Solventure helps global manufacturing companies take control of their growth plans. In complex and margin sensitive environments, service issues, bad inventories and misaligned supply chain and financial plans can stall progress.
Solventure delivers the full transformation cycle of planning by connecting data, process and performance. This approach unlocks measurable improvements in margin, working capital and agility.
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