Randburg, 2188,
South Africa
Draca International
Draca International, a prominent reseller, system integrator, and consulting company, that plays a vital role in numerous system integration and digital transformation initiatives. Draca International collaboration with software players such as IBM empowers organizations to embrace disruptive technologies and accelerate their journey to the cloud, thus reshaping their business models.
| Reseller and SI | Vendor | Application | Category | Market |
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| Draca International | IBM | IBM Planning Analytics (powered by TM1) | EPM | EPM |
| Logo | Customer | Industry | Empl. | Revenue | Country | Vendor | Product | Category | When | Insight |
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Channell | Manufacturing | 800 | $320M | United States | IBM | IBM Planning Analytics (powered by TM1) | EPM | 2018 |
In 2018, Channell implemented IBM Planning Analytics (powered by TM1) to establish a centralized EPM capability for planning and inventory management across its manufacturing operations. The deployment was conducted with IBM Business Partner Draca Solutions and targeted the company’s two U.S. plants in Temecula, California and Rockwall, Texas, where five discrete manufacturing processes require coordinated material and capacity planning.
The implementation combined IBM Planning Analytics Express, leveraging its in-memory analytical engine, with IBM Cognos Analytics for flexible reporting and visualization. Configuration work focused on product classification into finished goods, work-in-progress and raw materials, automated bill of materials generation for metals jobs, and the creation of reporting models that track inventory status for more than 9,000 finished goods items. These modules were used to instrument nested bill of materials analysis and to shorten planner workflows that had relied on spreadsheet-based processes.
Operational integration included extraction of transactional and inventory data from the company’s ERP systems to feed Planning Analytics models and Cognos reports, enabling planners to cross-check component requirements against current stock and to estimate lead times. The solution supported planning workflows that touch production scheduling, materials procurement, logistics and distribution planning, and provided data inputs for human resource and plant maintenance scheduling.
Governance and adoption emphasized enablement, Draca Solutions delivered onsite training sessions at the Rockwall plant and trained a cohort of power users to cascade knowledge across the organization. The rollout prioritized planner-facing reports and self-service analytics, shifting routine manual reporting tasks into governed Planning Analytics and Cognos processes while maintaining IT oversight of model updates and data refresh schedules.
Explicit results reported by Channell include faster analysis that reduces planner time spent on manual reporting, deeper insight into materials requirements that helps prevent project delays, and improved clarity on lead times to enable smarter resource deployment and plant maintenance planning. The deployment also supported more systematic logistics and distribution coordination by providing predictable readiness dates for packing and loading operations.
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