Customers will always demand more of suppliers to provide affordable products at the exact moment they want them. How can you effectively insure you have what your customers need when they need it? Supply Chain Management (SCM) is front and center of every business across the globe.
Inventory Planning Strategy
What is your position about planning in the Cloud? What are your competitors doing or likely to do? Are they staying the course on-premises or are they adopting new methods and technologies to improve their business performance? Are they already in the Cloud? How are you dealing with the continuing triple threat viruses?
Inventory experts consistently finds that items with the greatest number of order lines often account for 80% or more of a company’s total business. By increasing safety stock for these items can significantly improve the overall fill rates and increase sales. These items are the ones your customers are asking for and that focusing on these items is “listening” to your customers. If you aren’t focused on these items, you aren’t listening to your customers especially if you are running out of stock.
An advanced inventory planning and optimization solution is a key component to inventory performance excellence. They are smart systems that forecast and plan optimal inventory requirements while holding costs in check. They are superior to commonly used types of software, standard inventory transaction software and spreadsheets. Many of these solutions are both strategic and tactical tools. They cover long range inventory budget planning down to daily replenishment and problem solving.
Leading-edge companies around the world that have moved to the Cloud with advanced inventory planning realized many of the following benefits in addition to those achieved by going to the Cloud:
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Reduced inventory investment by 20% or more
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Reduced expediting and emergency shipments by 35% or more
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Improved planner productivity by reducing planning time by 60%-80%
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Ability to control and reduce replenishment spending by 15% or more
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Stock-outs reduced by 12%-22% or greater
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Increased productivity by 5% to 10%
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Visibility across all stocking locations
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Improved customer service and satisfaction
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Better employee satisfaction in meeting their customers' needs
In Conclusion 
The successful, high-performance
supply chain inventory process flow is as follows:
Inventory Strategy guided by:
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Customer Service Goals
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Investment Capability & ROI
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Tools and Expertise
Warehouse layout impacted by Inventory Strategy:
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Racking decisions
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Equipment decisions
Operations impacted by Inventory Strategy & Warehouse layout:
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Put-away Strategies
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Allocation Strategies
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Picking strategies
Valogix provides the critical tools for planning, optimizing your supply chain and improving customer service strategies in the Cloud. These automated, intelligent tools help to improve your competitive advantage by keeping inventory costs low and availability high, so you can focus on customer service. These tools allow any employee to use them anywhere, anytime freeing up resources to do what you do best - sell and service your products. This combination of technologies allows you to work smarter by easily adapting all aspects of inventory management into one advanced, simple-to-employ action plan.
See dramatic results from 2 prestigious Valogix Customer Success Case Studies: Sunset Health Care and RediBag USA.