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Planning Solutions for the Fashion and Retail Sectors: SMAU 2002 - the new Toolsgroup offering for Supply Chain Planning

13 Sept 2002

Toolsgroup, leading provider of Supply Chain optimisation technology, and presents new vertical solutions for the Fashion Industry and Retail Sector at SMAU 2002.

DPM Fashion Solution
, developed by Toolsgroup for the specific logistic needs of the Fashion Industry, is a suite capable of carrying out demand planning for highly seasonal products with short life cycles up to the determination of timely production capacity and fabric requirements.
DPM Fashion Solution is born out of the extensive experience gained through clients such as Diesel Jeans, Marzotto, ITTIERRE, Luxottica and Marcolin.

DPM Retail Solution
is presented by Toolsgroup for the retail sector and is an integrated suite capable of optimising retailers' profitability via improved product availability at DC and POS levels while, at the same time, reducing inventory levels. DPM Retail Solution optimises material flows along the Distribution Network taking into consideration promotions, market intelligence, transport, delivery and merchandising constraints. This solution brings a highly automated, high frequency replenishment and merchandising control for POS and distribution centres to the Retail Sector.

Toolsgroup's DPM (Distribution Planning Model) technology guarantees planned service level targets while optimising logistic costs and constitutes an integrated process for commercial, service level and stock planning for each item/warehouse, multi-plant and multi-tier networks, finite capacity, distribution and transportation planning.

DPM is currently the Demand Planning product with the highest number of installations in Italy.

Toolsgroup

Toolsgroup develops, distributes and supports DPM, a "best of breed" replenishment planning tool using unique inventory optimisation, fulfilment planning and frequency-based forecasting technologies to drive supply chain planning processes. DPM has been applied successfully in a range of industries and commercial sectors (from automotive aftermarket to food and fashion) providing integrated planning for single to multi-plant production systems in single to multi-tier distribution networks. Toolsgroup is a leading provider of supply chain design, planning and optimisation technology.
With commercial offices in The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, the UK, North America and Israel, Toolsgroup technology is backed by a comprehensive customer support network offering highly skilled services for fast implementation, training and performance monitoring and strategic network design.

TOOLSGROUP at SMAU 2002
Pad 19 Stand F19

Press Contacts
Toolsgroup Italy Press Enquiries
it-marketing@toolsgroup.com
Tel: +39 02 48022810

Angela Iorio, Palomar - Logistica e Comunicazione
angela.iorio@sipalomar.com
Tel: +39 010 2466908