Demand-Driven Supply Chain Planning for Retailers

With consumers brand switching and promotions further degrading forecast accuracy, it’s more difficult for buyers and planners to maintain high shelf availability and optimized inventory investment across large numbers of Store/SKU combinations. Overseas sourcing, particularly for private brands, adds to the complexity of achieving an Efficient Customer Response (ECR).

We help retailers address these challenges by offering highly automated forecasting and store and shelf synchronized replenishment. With it, retailers achieve sustainable shelf fill rates as high as 99+%, typically with 10-25% less global inventory.

This highly automated replenishment solution is responsive to volatile demand signals, even for large networks. Best-of-breed forecasting models incorporate many internal and external elements such as: market trends, seasonality, promotions, new product launches, returns and substitutions. Promotion planning leverages intelligent machine learning to forecast demand uplift. Demand collaboration manages internal sources such as Demand Signal Repository (DSR) or POS data and external sources such as supplier category plans. Inventory optimization analyzes daily store-level demand to generate in-store and upstream inventory buffers. 

For a complete description of our retail solution and our customer experience, please contact the ToolsGroup office nearest you.