Improved Sales and Margins
Having the right product at the right location available for sales is the primary goal of any fulfillment chain. Achieving this goal at a minimum total landed cost will give you the room to differentiate your business in the marketplace.
Especially in the retail industry, the number of products needing to be processed is so large, an automated system will reduce the time to plan, enabling rapid responses to ever-changing market conditions. An automated system using cutting edge optimization technology will further eliminate costs by identifying transportation consolidation opportunities, and by reducing operating inventory levels without sacrificing target service levels.
planLM Replenishment Planning solution enables distribution-centric companies, such as retailers, to minimize total landed cost of supply by optimizing time and quantity of purchase and replenishment orders that will satisfy desired service levels with minimum inventory levels.
Key Benefits
- Reduce stock-outs, direct impact on improved sales
- Minimize total landed cost of supply, including warehousing, transportation, procurement, and inventory holding costs
- Increase operational visibility, identify potential problems, and react with confidence
- Shorten planning cycles for better control of the total supply, react to changes in the market place rapidly
- Reduce operating inventory assets, free up capital
Key Features
planLM Replenishment Planning solution is specifically designed for rapid execution of our planning systems implementation methodology. Key features are as follows:
- Comprehensive cost and capacity modeling; inherently models all activities in the supply chain, eliminates special configuration efforts for most business issues
- Customizable planning goals; generates plans based on your specific business priorities
- "What if" capability; supports multiple business scenarios with ability of capturing multiple versions of forecasts, one-click plan comparison ability
- Multi-echelon inventory optimization; featuring a sophisticated optimization algorithm considering demand and supply uncertainties in inventory cost modeling along with transportation and warehousing costs, yielding in a truly optimum replenishment plan
- Problem detection and reporting; identifies material shortages in the plan, suggests resolutions, on-the fly plan modification capability
- Flexible data synchronization module; connects to virtually any data source for data load and plan commit with scheduling ability
- Unprecedented scalability; runs on 64bit architecture without any limits on the size of the supply chain
- OnDemand deployment option; enables you to start your replenishment planning system implementation right away, without acquiring any software license or hardware. Contact us for a quick start guide.