Collaborative Planning with Biclustering

For companies, improving and streamlining their supply chains is crucial for survival in the global competitive environment. Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) is a process management strategy that promotes collaboration among supply chain participants and aims to achieve mutual benefits between parties. CPFR enables effective collaboration between manufacturers, suppliers, and customers. If there are many customers and suppliers in a company's supply chain, the process of establishing collaboration can be achieved faster and at a lower cost by using biclustering, a business analytics method. Biclustering can reduce the need for multiple collaborations by grouping customers in the supply chain according to their common characteristics. Therefore, biclustering and CPFR are valuable tools that can be used together to improve efficiency in the supply chain. Combining these techniques can help increasing competitive advantage and managing supply chain operations more successfully. In this study, a company operating in the automotive supply industry used a biclustering strategy to collaborate with multiple customers. The findings revealed the potential benefits of biclustering, which enables the company to work with multiple customers simultaneously. It is evident that this strategy can benefit businesses in various ways, such as facilitating inventory control and increasing supply chain effectiveness.