Supply Chain Planning
If you don’t serve your customers while optimizing your inventory investment, someone else will.
Competitiveness for any distribution company is all about the inventory. Success, or even survival, depends on making optimal inventory decisions and serving customers better than your competitor. Advanced Distribution Software provides the ability to achieve a competitive advantage over your competitors by enabling “game changing” functionality, including:
• Visibility to inventory in all stocking locations.
• Accessing the data necessary to optimize forward buy and rebate opportunities.
• Capturing customer level forecasts and aligning inventory appropriately.
• Achieving optimal inventory levels despite long lead times.
Supply Chain Planning, including Demand Forecasting and Requirements Planning, provides the foundation for these activities and more. Typically, organizations are able to concurrently make significant reductions in inventory while improving service levels – resulting in a significantly improved competitive position.
Put Your Inventory to Work
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In a Global Economy: Staying Competitive in the Multi-Channel Distribution Industry Through The Effective Use of Best Practices
Forecast Management
Are you still relying on a spreadsheet program to manage your supply chain needs? While spreadsheets are easy to use and well-suited to handle basic tasks, you require a robust business management solution in order to realize true supply chain visibility, optimize inventory planning and nurture your company’s growth.
Requirements Planning
Are you investing as wisely as you can in your inventory? Supply chain management is more volatile than ever. In the current economy, historical trends are just that – history. Lacking a comprehensive business management solution, it can be impossible to access the key data you need in order to minimize inventory and costs, and attain the competitive edge you’re striving for.
Sales & Operations Planning
Are you spending more time reacting to problems than managing opportunities? You need a business management solution that gives you the control to make realistic plans, optimize profit and minimize risk.
Demand Solutions Sales & Operations Planning from Advanced Distribution Partners empowers you to drive production and sales, while eliminating time wasted reacting to preventable problems. We can help you customize a system that allows you to create dynamic annual fiscal plans and contingency plans that can be altered as your needs change throughout the year.
Retail Planning
In retail, empty shelves and excessive stock are equally bad for business. As a distributor, you are tasked with planning your inventory accordingly, so that you are able to supply the right items at the right time.
Collaboration
Collaborating with suppliers can be a challenge. Given today’s global economy, chances are you are working with partners in various time zones and multiple locations. Working together over the phone, via fax or even email, there is still plenty of opportunity for costly errors and delays to occur.
