CLARITY Inventory Replenishment

Your expectations are simple...

Your customers expect you to have everything they need, every single time they need it.  Finance expects you to free up cash... and your shareholders expect increased sales and profit.

Like a swinging pendulum, companies have long managed inventory replenishment by making the trade-off between customer service goals and corporate cash and profit needs. Today Sales is shouting for more inventory, "If we had it, I could have sold it!"  Tomorrow, It'll be Finance, "We need cash, stop buying."

If you'd like to know how to manage your inventory as a profit center, rather than a necessary evil, read: "Out of Stock is Out of Business"

CLARITY Inventory Replenishment software assures proper inventory levels and  increased cash flow by enabling retailers, wholesalers, and their trading partners to manage inventory replenishment to service customers at superior levels, while maintaining inventory levels that minimize cash requirements.

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Features

		Demand Forecasting Self-adjusting formula manages trends at the SKU, item, location, category, and company level, or many others.
		Manages seasonal demand forecasting by defining historical patterns in demand and predicting periodic uplifts and downturns.
		Anticipates inventory replenishment needs and creates "smarter" replenishment orders that provide optimal customer service with minimal inventory investment.
		Performance Management Tools allow management and users to create and analyze “what-if” scenarios and evaluate the effect of changes in inventory policy prior to implementation.
		Automatically determines safety stock levels by item and location to meet your desired fill-rate goals.
		Automated order generation allows the system to notify you when it's time for replenishment of a vendor line to meet fill-rate and optimize profitability, or set order days to vendor schedules.
		Orders built to brackets.  Replenishment orders are automatically built to constraints, such as paid-freight minimums or truckloads.
		Item and Vendor level economics.  We define the most cost-effective time supply of product to buy at both the item (individual) and vendor (joint) level.
		Exception management tools adjust for unusual circumstances or prompt users to review and take action only on items that fall outside acceptable tolerances.
		Pattern new item demand forecasts after similar or related items.

CLARITY Inventory Replenishment software goes beyond the science of demand forecasting, economics analysis, and complex safety stock calculations to assure that all of those advanced techniques can be used by your buyers.

The decision-support tools in CLARITY Inventory Replenishment allow companies to understand the impact of maintaining or changing the level of their inventory, customer service goals, cash flow requirements and other key measures, and execute against that understanding.

Planners and Buyers have a job to do, and we know what it is...we’ve done it ourselves. To help your people assure success, we insert profit-driven processes, and workflow support every step of the way.

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