Inventory Planner capable of optimizing inventories for up to 50 million product market combinations with large variabilities. It generates accurate Stock Norms for all product location combinations using all variabilities, lot sizes and lead-times. It does multi-echelon and product optimization to identify the right deployment tactic.
Lower Own Inventory
All-round reduction of owned Inventories in all forms from Raw Materials to Intermediates to Finished Goods and all at Locations from Factories to Central & Regional Warehouses to Downstream Warehouses.
Reduced Customer Inventory
Reduced Customer Inventories due to better upstream Service Levels leading to better utilization of its Working Capital and faster Sale Velocity.
Higher Service Levels
Substantial Increase in Service Levels in terms of Case or Line Fill leading to higher Sales and better Customer Experience.
Lower Own Inventory
All-round reduction of owned Inventories in all forms from Raw Materials to Intermediates to Finished Goods and all at Locations from Factories to Central & Regional Warehouses to Downstream Warehouses.
Reduced Customer Inventory
Reduced Customer Inventories due to better upstream Service Levels leading to better utilization of its Working Capital and faster Sale Velocity
Higher Service Levels
Substantial Increase in Service Levels in terms of Case or Line Fill leading to higher Sales and better Customer Experience
Key Features
- Multi Echelon Chain - Optimal network design with right number of echelons (central and regional warehouses) in the distribution network.
- Warehouse Selection - Suggests best number and location of warehouses based on the best trade-off between freight costs & fixed costs of warehouses.
- Optimal Linkage Selection - Finds out the best linkage from different possible routes from factory to central warehouse to regional warehouse to customer.
- Optimized Total Landed Costs - Accounts for linear costs like handling costs, freight costs between factory warehouses, customers etc. and non-linear costs like warehouse rent, manpower and inventory costs.
- Reduction in Inventory - Reduction in inventory through optimization of Cycle times of dispatch
- Optimal Customer Clubbing - Improved truck loads and faster replenishment time due to optimal Customer clubbing in a single mode
- Mode Selection - Selects the linkage based on mode wise cost and volume discounts.
- Service levels - Creates a Network to meet the Service Level Requirements.
- Simulations - Simulation of key supply chain drivers like Tariffs, Market Demand, new categories, lead time, transportation modes, New Routes, Fixed Costs etc.
Deliverables in a Snapshot
Some Case Studies
An iconic Auto Manufacturer optimized Dealer and its own Working Capital for its Spares business by over 25% and improved Service Levels by 10%. The problem entailed over 50,000 parts deployed at over 1000 dealer locations. Understand How..
One of the largest FMCG companies in India reduced its inventory by over 12% and improved Service Level by 8% in the first month of usage of Inventory Planner.
