Inventory planning

Focus on lean inventories

In the past, achieving sales targets was the top priority for many companies. The level of storage capacity tended to play a subordinate role. This has changed dramatically in recent years: Lean inventory management is essential in order to establish cost efficiency and remain competitive.

Striking the right balance between excessive stock levels and impending bottlenecks is a complex challenge for many companies. The central question: How can you determine the optimum stock level with constantly changing parameters? Which key figures are relevant in order to really understand and evaluate the supply chain? How important are individual materials, for example? How high is the inventory turnover? And what part of my stock is actually freely available?

The most important factor for optimization is the individual target stock. After all, mathematical approaches only help once a precise understanding of the inventory has been created. Together with our SCM experts, you can get the best out of your inventory optimization!

Inventory analysis: Together we create transparency. Analyze the developments and effects of your inventories, e.g. in Power BI. You also receive a classification in ABC/XYZ clusters for a targeted definition of safety stocks.
Optimal safety stock: Determine your ideal target stock levels based on demand patterns and jointly developed KPIs (e.g. service level or fill rate).
Simulation of the results: Based on their historical data, the mathematically optimal safety stocks are simulated and evaluated with realistic distributions for demand and delivery times.
Proven methods and templates: Benefit from our methods and templates, which we have developed based on the requirements of countless planning projects in the SCM environment.

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The best thing is that you can get started with our assessment for stock potential analysis without any risk. Within a few days, you will receive initial results on your target stock and can see the benefits for yourself.

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Our services for you

Design target processes

In joint workshops, we define your individual target planning process. In the process, we determine the target process that makes the most sense for your company situation either on the basis of our best-practice templates through GAP-Fit or using the Green Field Approach.

Define dimension and data model

We work with you to develop the ideal data model for your planning processes - from the dimensional structure and hierarchical relationships to the organization and processing of metadata.

Implement planning processes

We integrate the planning solution into your system landscape and implement it in the platform that suits you best.

Integrate planning

For a seamless flow of information and efficient processes, we support you in integrating your planning solution into the system landscape and in connecting all operational systems.

Optimize and automate forecasts with AI

Use the potential of state-of-the-art technologies and methods for automation: Through statistical models, mathematical derivations as well as machine learning, we raise your forecast process to a new level.

Benefit from our prepared framework for automated forecasts. The framework contains an ensemble of state-of-the-art forecasting methods and self-learning algorithms and selects the mathematical model with the most plausible results per time series for each run. The advantage: you no longer have to worry about the calculations and logic in the background.

In addition to historical data, you can also incorporate external information such as weather data, inventory data or market analyses such as IHS data in the automotive sector into the forecast. This allows you to keep an eye on all trends and developments, even for product ranges with thousands of items.

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