Industries
Major challenges that we address in different industries
Retail
- Managing daily and weekly demand profiles per location
- Managing high seasonality profiles
- Maintaining high service levels while considering cost of holding inventory
- Short product life cycle
- Effects of merchandising and minimum shelf display
- Promotional, or any special event planning
- Large volume of orders across multiple suppliers and distribution networks
- Multi-channel demand
Food & Beverage
- Short shelf life and product expiration
- High levels of customer satisfaction required
- Large volumes of promotions and the effect it has on other products in the same category
- High seasonality profiles
- Understanding customers’ spending behaviour across a group of products and replenishing accordingly
- Unit of measure: bridging the gap between sales unit of measure and purchasing unit of measure
- Automation of product ranging
Manufacturing
- Production planning, considering forecasted demand, capacity available and calendar constraints
- Balancing high levels of customer service vs. manufacturing efficiencies
- Managing slow moving products with high variability (long tail of demand)
- Managing raw materials or component availability with long lead times
Healthcare / Pharmaceutical / vet
- High customer service levels required for slow moving products
- Managing product shelf life
- Reducing waste
- Reducing obsolescence
- Long supplier and/or manufacturing lead times
- Managing different sales patters from the private market and the tender market
- Big economic order quantities
- Sales collaboration
- Extreme seasonality
Replenishment planning
- Managing a large number of parts with intermittent demand (long tail of demand)
- Automation of new product introduction
- Complex supersession and replacement rules
- Managing fair allocation across multi-level inventory
- Dealing with multiple constraints from suppliers
Consumer goods & Wholesale Distribution
- Managing B2B demand
- Large number of product locations in a multi-echelon environment
- Managing slow moving items with intermittent demand (Long tail of demand)
- Seasonality
- Short product life cycles
- Long lead times from suppliers
- Promotional and/or event planning
Telecommunications
- Managing B2B demand
- Large number of product locations in a multi-echelon environment
- Managing slow moving items with intermittent demand (Long tail of demand)
- Seasonality
- Short product life cycles
- Long lead times from suppliers
- Promotional and/or event planning
MRO
- Large parts catalogues with diverse demand and supply behaviours
- Managing inventory holding cost across very expensive to low cost items
- Super-session and substitution of products
- High seasonality