Pricing
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01 MPS Pricing Packages
Standard
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The standard solution is made for small-to-medium size companies in Africa, optimising their inventory planning and taking their business to the next level.
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Professional
Experiencing more complexities than the average small-to-medium size business?
FinStock gears your business with advanced functionalities to tackle the complexities with ease. Its more than just a tool, it’s a team.
Enterprise
FinStock’s Enterprise Solution that caters to larger businesses in Africa.
We are not just a service provider, but your partner. Through an ongoing continuous support and improvement program, we plan to deliver the required results.
02 Package Functionalities
Demand
| Functionalities | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forecast & Demand Management ⓘThis functionality calculates monthly demand forecasts for all demand forecasting units (DFU; Item/Area) on the basis of the demand history. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automated Demand Smoothing ⓘIdentifies and adjusts exceptional demand peaks over a specific period, highlighting the original demand, the adjusted value, and the percentage change for each record, helping businesses maintain stable forecasting and planning. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Lost Sales During Out-of-Stocks ⓘEstimated sales opportunities missed due to stockouts, where demand could not be fulfilled. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| New Product Introductions ⓘAllows businesses to link related products, ensuring that demand for a superseded item is transferred to its replacement item. This process helps manage transitions between old and new products, adjusting demand based on predefined factors. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Seasonality Management ⓘSeasonal Demand Adjustment ensures accurate forecasting by applying seasonal patterns to product families or specific items. It identifies demand fluctuations across months, weeks, or days, allowing businesses to optimise inventory and sales planning based on historical trends. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Commercial Forecast Adjustments ⓘCommercial Forecast Adjustments allow businesses to manually modify system-generated forecasts based on market insights, promotions, or strategic decisions. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Service Level Classification ⓘService Level Classification groups products based on their strategic importance, market demand, and handling requirements to ensure optimal service policies. This helps businesses prioritise inventory, balancing availability and cost across different product categories. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Current Month Management ⓘCurrent Month Management provides a daily breakdown of demand and forecast data for the current month, enabling businesses to track real-time sales trends, adjust forecasts, and apply manual overrides to ensure inventory and replenishment align with market demand. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Demand Profiling ⓘDemand Profiling tracks and adjusts sales patterns at both the weekly and daily levels. By understanding how demand fluctuates over time, businesses can improve forecasting accuracy, optimise inventory, and align replenishment strategies with real consumer buying behaviour. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Aggregate Demand Forecast ⓘAggregate Demand Forecasting enables businesses to generate forecasts at a grouped product level, allowing for more stable and accurate demand predictions in environments with intermittent sales, frequent product replacements, or diverse product variations. | ✔ | ✔ | Promotions ⓘPromotion uses advanced clustering techniques to assess and predict the expected uplift in sales for specific product and market combinations during promotional campaigns. | ✔ | ✔ |
| Machine Learning-Powered Promotion Optimisation ⓘMLE Promotion Optimisation uses machine learning to analyse past promotional data and identify sales patterns. By clustering promotions based on common attributes, it calculates expected uplifts for future promotions. | ✔ | ||
| New Product Introduction (NPI) Machine Learning Forecasting ⓘNPI Machine Learning Forecasting uses Machine Learning to automatically generate accurate demand forecasts for new products. By leveraging product and market data, along with specific product/market clusters, the function creates predictive forecasts that can be adjusted manually or used directly. | ✔ | ||
| External Factors Machine Learning Analysis ⓘExternal Factors Analysis helps businesses understand how things like weather, economic changes, or market trends influence product demand. | ✔ |
Inventory Requirements
| Functionalities | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Tier Supply Chain ⓘMutli-Tier Supply Chain optimises inventory levels across multiple distribution levels. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Inventory Management Policies ⓘThe ability to automatically define different inventory policies for a group of items based on agreed business rules and the item behaviours. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Inventory Mix Optimisation ⓘInventory Mix Optimisation focuses on optimising the selection and balance of stock items across different service classes and network combinations. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Stock Upper Limit ⓘThe Stock Upper Limit refers to the maximum allowable stock level at a specific location. It sets a total upper boundary for all associated service class and warehouse combinations, helping to control inventory levels and prevent overstocking. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Push-Out Logic ⓘPush-out logic allows to manage situations where network restrictions prevent the holding of stock at an upstream warehouse, whenever a replenishment lot arrives at this warehouse, immediately transfers the entire quantity to its dependent downstream warehouses. | ✔ | ✔ |
Replenishment
| Functionalities | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proposal Editing ⓘProposal Editing allows for the manual editing and approval of replenishment proposals, enabling users to review, adjust, and finalise inventory plans to better align with demand and supply needs. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Supplier Order Constraints ⓘThis feature allows you to set minimum order and delivery requirements with specific constraints to ensure that orders and deliveries meet predefined thresholds. | Standard | Custom | Custom |
| Supplier Price Breaks ⓘSupplier price breaks are discount schemes that offer reduced prices based on the quantity of items ordered or the total order value. These price adjustments help optimise purchasing decisions by incentivising bulk orders or higher-value purchases. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Store Display Quantity ⓘStore display quantity refers to the minimum number of items required on the sales floor to ensure a visually appealing and stocked presentation. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Lot Expiry Date Management ⓘLot Expiry Dates are managed through the import of lot details (by warehouse or location). When calculating net requirements, the system depletes the lots in order of expiry date, ignoring any residual (expired) quantities of a lot that cannot be consumed in time. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Product Substitution ⓘProduct Substitution allows you to define equivalent products that can replace one another based on specific criteria. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Inter-branch Transfers ⓘAn inter-branch transfer refers to the movement of stock between different branches or depots. This process is essential for balancing inventory levels across multiple locations, ensuring stock availability where it’s needed, and optimising stock flow throughout the supply chain. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Vendor Performance Rating ⓘDesigned to report on the actual performance of each vendor identifying their strengths and weaknesses to help you determine inventory requirements and to assist in supplier performance reviews. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Multi-Supplier Sourcing ⓘMultiple supplier sourcing is a strategy where a single product can be sourced from different suppliers to ensure a consistent supply and reduce dependency on any one source. | ✔ | ✔ |
Production Planning
| Functionalities | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOM Source Availability ⓘThis function ensures that all the necessary parts are available before creating a kit/production plan. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Rough-Cut Capacity Planning ⓘRough Cut Production Planning (RCPP) supports the generation of feasible material distribution plans on the basis of effective availability of production capacity. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Finite Production Scheduling & Optimisation ⓘFinite production is a production planning that optimises resources, capacity, machines and labour. | ✔ |
Other
| Functionalities | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supplier Collaboration ⓘThis is a platform that helps businesses and their suppliers collaborate by sharing information, such as future replenishment plans, open purchase orders, etc. | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Price Optimisation ⓘDesigned to adjust prices in real-time based on market fluctuations and uncertainties, analysing extensive data to deliver an optimal pricing strategy that drives growth, profitability, and competitiveness. | ✔ | ||
| Merchandising ⓘDesigned to use data analytics for planogram creation and floor plan optimisation. Key capabilities are shelf space optimization, store layout optimization, merchandise mobile app, etc. | ✔ |
