Xionex, a supply chain management solution company, said on Tuesday it supplied its SaaS-based SCM solution PlanNEL to the Japan headquarters of global outdoor brand Snow Peak.

Xionex said Snow Peak expanded its business in line with a surge in global camping demand and judged its Excel-based manual supply and demand management to be inefficient. Snow Peak adopted Xionex's PlanNEL to build a system that integrates demand forecasting, sales planning and replenishment planning on one platform.

PlanNEL is a SaaS supply chain management solution that supports the entire SCM process, from demand planning to inventory and replenishment planning, based on AI algorithms and statistical methods.

Snow Peak cut the time required for related work by about 50 percent after applying PlanNEL, Xionex said. It said an "efficient division of labour" structure took hold, with AI handling data-based automation and people focusing on strategic decisions based on it.

Xionex CEO Dong-sik Ryu (류동식) said, "Based on PlanNEL's technological capabilities, we will continue to support companies across various industries so they can build data-based supply chain operating systems."