ASICS accelerates its supply chain with data, thanks to a long-term collaboration with Climber

The solution: targeted dashboards (apps), co-developed with business owners

Climber and the BI team placed the business at the center and built dashboards (apps) that provide answers to key management questions. Together, we developed several solutions that make a real operational difference, including:

Forecast Planning App

This app combines targets, forecasts, order book, and actuals in one overview, supporting the Sales & Operations Planning process. Demand planners, supply chain, and finance work from the same data, enabling consistent forecasting and better alignment. Key performance indicators such as forecast accuracy are automatically calculated and shared.

Demand & Supply App

The Demand & Supply App provides insight into delivery reliability, bottlenecks, and over-supply. Based on this data, teams can prioritise which orders need to be expedited, postponed, or adjusted. The app supports better decision-making around production, distribution, and customer agreements.

The result: faster decisions, more trust, greater impact

Thanks to these apps, ASICS now works with one version of the truth, forecasts have become more reliable, and decisions are made more quickly. Teams save hours of manual consolidation, stock shortages and surpluses have decreased, and there is more calm and confidence in the supply chain. The apps have been widely adopted and increased team engagement. Most importantly, ASICS is now able to accurately predict what’s going to happen, and act on it.

The partnership with Climber

ASICS has been working with Climber for years to improve its data-driven way of working — not as a vendor, but as an extension of the internal BI team.

“Climber is not a supplier, but an extension of our team. They know our processes, understand how retail and wholesale work, and build solutions that match our practice perfectly. What we especially value: they think along with us, challenge us when needed, and always deliver quality.”

Maurice Spruijt, BI Manager EMEA, ASICS