Allocation & Replenishment

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Allocation & Replenishment

Meet customer preferences and projected demand with precise distribution plans and inventory management ensuring the right products and sizes at each location while preventing costly out-of-stocks and overstocks.

Overview

Intelligent solutions for an ideal inventory balance

Dynamically react to changes in demand and optimize your allocation processes, ensuring optimal product availability, efficient inventory management, and improved profitability.
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productivity improvement

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increased allocation accuracy

Features & Capabilities

A unified and integrated inventory planning strategy

Automated Inventory Planning

Swiftly adjust inventory plans to match demand

Intelligent algorithms automatically generate inventory plans based on sales history, on-hand inventory, safety stock requirements, and customer orders. Advanced "sense-and-respond" algorithms adjust to daily demand changes to prevent stock-outs and overstocks.

Automated Lifecycle Management

Make the most out of your product lifecycles

Easy management of item lifecycles, from new product introductions to end-of-life, or product substitutions, using historical and forecast data to optimize allocations, speed up inventory turn-over, identify best product placements and reduce markdowns.
Consolidated Inventory View

Connect workbenches for smarter decisions

Interactive system workbenches provide a unified view of on-hand, deployed, and projected inventory, aiding faster and more informed decision-making, allocation and optimal use of resources.
Flexible Allocation

Place the right inventory in the right location

Generate distribution plans that ensure the right products and sizes are available at each location to meet customer preferences and projected demand. Combine push and pull allocations, supporting efficient handling of various channel demands and satisfy your customers.
Vendor Managed Replenishment

Unify data for optimized restocking

Integrate all data – from vendor availability, warehouse capacity and labor resources down to single-store space. Benefit from advanced vendor managed replenishment with order optimization logic that triggers customer orders based on optimal economic order frequency and safety-stock policies

Key Benefits

This is what you can achieve with Blue Yonder

Perfect Inventory Balance

Forecasting and intelligent analysis ensure the right allocations and replenishment to the right place. Meet actual demand, minimize the risk of customer demand exceeding on-hand inventory and prevent costly overstocking.

Faster Inventory Turns

Simplify the management of item lifecycles, especially for seasonal and promotional products. Introduce new products faster and create efficient seasonal assortment plans. Manage end-of-life products by analyzing demand patterns to minimize markdowns and obsolete inventory.

Profitable Operations

Boost your warehouse efficiency. A holistic view of demand and auto-generated inventory plans allow for quick reactions to changes, resulting in efficient planning, a responsive replenishment cycle, flexible allocations and optimized inventory ROI.

Work smarter with Blue Yonder

Allocator

 

Increased allocation accuracy


Leverage AI & ML to make accurate, data-driven decisions during the planning process.

Maximize profitability

Translate AI-driven customer insights into strategic inventory movements and replenishments that reduce overall safety stock across your organization.

Improved customer satisfaction

Make distribution decisions that align with merchant strategy and localized demand, leading to profitable inventory placement decisions and higher customer satisfaction.


Case Studies

Success stories in Allocation & Replenishment

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