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KiaKia Extends Supply Chain Design Across Plan to Produce
Kia, a consumer discretionary organization in South Korea, uses Supply Chain Design from Coupa to support plan to produce for planners and plant leads.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because supply and production planning has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in plan to produce sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Supply Chain Design is the governed place planners and plant leads use for plan to produce |
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Inside Kia, plan to produce used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in consumer discretionary groups working out of South Korea. Planners and plant leads needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Kia uses Supply Chain Design from Coupa as the working layer for supply and production planning. Coupa is a spend management platform for procurement, invoicing, expenses, and supply chain design used by finance and procurement teams. The practical change is simple: plan to produce has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Kia gets from Coupa is a durable place to run plan to produce and a way for planners and plant leads to see the same supply and production planning at the same time.
