Replenishment: Reduce Inventory, Improve the Flow of Goods Across the Entire Demand Chain

Optimizing replenishment is a proven way to free up more working capital. Companies can employ technology to lower inventory, while still ensuring that items are in stock when customers want them.

With Manhattan Associates' Replenishment, you can predict inventory needs more accurately and adapt to changing demand patterns across the entire distribution network.

Replenishment's capabilities meet the inventory optimization needs of complex, multi-tiered supply chains. With it, you gain visibility into your total network inventory. You'll know what to order, how much to order and when to order for every location. And since orders are placed automatically, you avoid unnecessary out-of-stock situations.

Now you can take advantage of advanced forecasting formulas and optimization technology to more efficiently manage thousands of SKUs per location. Like other users of Replenishment, you will have the means to slash inventory levels and achieve dramatic reductions in per-unit replenishment costs.

How Replenishment Makes Inventory Management A Key Competitive Advantage

  • Optimizes cross-tier inventory policies to synchronize distribution center and store level inventory needs
  • Uses "what-if" scenarios to analyze safety stock inventory investments
  • Offers simulation environments to determine the business impact of various order policy strategies
  • Helps executives to balance service level goals across multiple channels of demand
  • Helps management to identify exceptional buying opportunities
  • Facilitates enhanced collaboration with external suppliers and internal warehouse operations
  • Enables rapid response to changes in customer demand
  • Frees up purchasing resources to focus on vendor analysis and negotiations
  • Reduces the negative impact of slow-moving products on profitability by categorizing them for special replenishment approaches
  • Redistributes products when there are inventory imbalances
  • Uses Collaborative Gateway and Vendor Managed Inventory to give valued trading partners direct access to replenishment data.

Replenishment can tailored to your unique requirements with advanced add-on capabilities. These include Capacity Constrained Ordering, Investment Buying, Push Applications, Slow Mover Management and Advanced Reporting.

Explore the Inventory Optimization process - click the diagram below for an interactive approach to understanding Manhattan's solution.

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  • Inventory Optimization - Solution Brochure Harmonizing investment with demand in your multi-echelon network to drive profitability
  • White Paper: Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization The optimal deployment of inventory is a vital business function for an enterprise. This paper will examine alternative approaches for tackling the thorny problem of managing inventory in a multi-echelon network and will present a method for minimizing inventory across echelons while simultaneously meeting all of your customer service goals.

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