Inventory Assessment
Our Inventory Assessment Services are designed to help you balance your inventory investment while optimizing resources for your high-performing, profitable products. With powerful insights and trusted recommendations, we ensure the right sizing of inventory at every location across your network by factoring in downstream demand, customer needs, and supply reliability.
Every product behaves differently based on its life cycle—whether it’s new, growing, maturing, or declining—and our service tailors inventory policies for each product’s unique behavior to align with your business objectives. Instead of a "one-size-fits-all" approach based on basic classification, our inventory optimization method differentiates service and inventory targets across products, bill-of-materials levels, and distribution network locations, ensuring you meet customer service goals with maximum efficiency.
Let us help you transform your inventory strategy into a competitive advantage by aligning inventory levels with actual demand and supply dynamics.
Planning as a Service
Supply chain planning is a complex process, requiring specialized proficiency and most companies struggle with it. We can help businesses achieve real business outcomes through effective and efficient supply chain planning, and fast. Decision Advantage is a Managed Supply Chain Planning Services that cuts time-to-value and eliminates risk, compared to a traditional software selection process or even working with a large consulting firm. This model assures low up front cost and allows companies to focus their attention on its core competencies. We handle infrastructure, so instead of cleaning and fixing data, your planners focus on analyze and adding value – a better use of your human capital. Decision Advantage offers you the ability to transition from “buy” to “use”.
Supply Chain Assessment
Assessment study of current performance and potential improvements in terms of forecasts, inventory and service levels.
- Identify and model various Demand Drivers to Improve Forecast Accuracy
- Understand Demand behaviors- variability, volatility and frequency
- Identify Current Inventory and Service Level behavior
- Service Level setting with optimized inventory mix and quantity
- Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization for inventory staging– upstream or downstream types of decisions
- Identify opportunities for increasing Product Availability without Increasing Inventory Investments
- Supply simulation- replenishment, distribution and production to identify long-term feasibility and constraints
Advanced Analytics
Promotions & Events Forecasting- Promotions & Planned events demand forecasting through removing the baseline demand and extracting the uplift actions
Cannibalization & Cross-Selling- Forecasting on cross-product
cannibalization, cross-effects, competitor’s events
Events Auto-Detection- Auto-detection of start, end and active products on events like promotions
New Product Introduction- Using product specs and combining it with an array of available product and market data including social media predict launch performance
Media Effect Forecasting- Online Media, Social Media, TV Advertising, Print and other media actions modelling into the demand forecasting
Social Sensing Index- Developing time series data on sentiment across social digital channels including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Blogs and more
Customer Signals- Starting from Lead and Opportunities data (CRM, Loyalty programs and more) enhance sales per product and location.
Internet of Things Signals- Leveraging devices streaming data in real time, we combine those signals to enhance the forecast and add early visibility
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