Product Suite

Retail

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Clients

Wayfair
Darice
Raymour & Flanigan
Steinhafels
woodcraft supply

“With this new process and Demand Solutions as the backbone technology enabler, we have had great success and consider Demand Solutions a valuable and dedicated partner that will help us stay ahead of our growth.”
CSN Stores

Challenges of Managing a Retail Supply Chain

A synchronized retail supply chain integrates material planning efforts across sales and production for improved forecasting accuracy. There are no "sophisticated" algorithms, only reliable ones.

Although many single-product, low-volume operations have profited by implementing the Demand Solutions system, it is ideally suited for businesses with high daily volumes, many customers, a broad offering of products, and a multi-tiered selling organization. Global competition, changing markets, and customer service pressures have steered distributors into new-market offerings. This has shifted the focus away from production, and into customer-centric principles.

Retail Supply Chain Solutions

If you’re working with apparel or hard goods, you can get the store-level modeling, planning, and replenishment you need with Demand Solutions Retail Planning. This solution is a complete account management system for the retail supply chain that is responsive to the most demanding requirements of retailers in model stock generation, manipulation, and approval. Determining customer demand patterns with point-of-sale data is the mainstay of Vendor Managed Inventory.

Demand Solutions Forecasting (DS FM) is the industry's most respected forecasting engine and data warehouse, providing 41 months of historical perspective. Demand Solutions Replenishment (DS RP) dynamically assesses requirements by using a time-phased replenishment plan that shows monthly, weekly, or daily time periods. DS RP tracks scheduled receipts, customer orders, on-hand balances, and optimized inventory targets.

High-level forecasting models can be more easily influenced by global factors. For the most accurate 30,000-foot view of your enterprise, Demand Solutions Sales & Operations Planning offers a way to automate the annual planning process, consolidate retail supply chain data easily, and adjust strategies before they impact production.

Demand Solutions offers the following products for retail supply chain planning:

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