Optimal Safety Stock

Add stock only when it adds value! Retailers and Wholesalers often protect themselves and their customers from out-of-stocks by buying more inventory. Out-of-stocks can be result of forecast errors, lead-time errors, planning mistakes, last minute changes and many other factors. Nevertheless buying more inventory is costly and very often unnecessary. Retalon's Safety Stock system calculates the necessary safety stock quantity individually for each product, based on multiple product attributes, company policies and business rules. The proper analytic approach to safety stock dramatically reduces inventory cost while keeping the desired customer service level and high profits. - LEARN MORE

Shipment Manager: Optimal Shipment Generator

Managing supply chain requires an integration of many functions. Determining optimal shipment quantities is one of the crucial links in maximizing the efficiency of the supply chain. Accurate future demand calculations is an important first step, which needs to be balanced with company policies, capacities and business rules in order to determine optimal shipment quantities and the correct timing of shipments. The resulting optimal shipment quantities and schedules allows for a quick reaction to shifts in demand, including the last minute changes in Order Quantities. - LEARN MORE

Shipment To Demand (S2D) Converter

Many forecast engines forecast demand based on retail point-of-sale data. Very few do it for the wholesalers, based on shipments. Retalon's S2D - Shipment To Demand converter is a unique tool that converts historic shipment data to actual consumer demand. Subsequently, these results are made available to Retalon Fortune, which forecasts future demand with a high degree of accuracy.
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