NetWORKS Fulfillment

There is an unexpected delay in production. You have a pending cross-border shipment. Can you dynamically search for product availability throughout the network to address the situation? Can you create time-phased inventory plans that meet customer requirements while minimising inventory and maximising profit? Are you carrying the right inventory at the right locations? Should you carry inventory at all?

Lack of distribution coordination and demand visibility results in excessive inventory costs, expedited shipments, decreased customer satisfaction, and lost revenues. A solution that orchestrates the flow and staging of inventory through N-Tier distribution networks is an ideal answer for meeting customer service objectives, while also minimising inventory investment and logistics costs.

With NetWORKS Fulfillment, you can orchestrate the time-phased storage and flow of supply to match demand by creating an optimal inventory strategy that includes deployment plans, master production schedules, and procurement requirements. Additionally, you can provide end-to-end visibility, minimise inventory investment, and reduce logistics costs while you maximise customer service.

NetWORKS Fulfillment optimises inventory and replenishment planning to create time-phased inventory plans that respect multiple time horizons - days, weeks, and months - and that recognise the interdependencies of the network on customer service and inventory investment. Warehouse space, shipping and receiving capacity, and customer delivery windows are all simultaneously respected, providing you with real-time network visibility of planned shipments, in-transits, available inventory, and expiring product.

By dynamically searching for product availability throughout the network, NetWORKS Fulfillment minimises lost revenue by ensuring customer requirements are met despite unanticipated delays in production, cross-border shipments, or transportation. In addition, through the use of user-controlled allocation strategies, NetWORKS Fulfillment ensures that in times of prolonged product shortage, your customers continue to receive appropriate supply allocations. By launching proactive alerts to distribution planners when product replenishments are in danger of falling unexpectedly short, NetWORKS Fulfillment makes it possible to avoid product shortages.

And unlike other distribution planning tools, NetWORKS Fulfillment also alerts you at the first sign of excess, obsolete, or expiring inventory. Through this early intervention process, 'push' logic, and customer specific date sensitivity tracking, potentially unusable inventory can be appropriately re-deployed within the network.

Decrease expediting and inventory costs, while maximising customer service by:

• Orchestrating time-phased product/material flow;
• Optimising inventories across N-Tier networks;
• Providing network-wide visibility, including customer/ supplier locations;
• Allocating critical goods during supply shortages;
• Creating optimal deployment, master production, and procurement plans;
• Optimal inventory planning > Decreases inventory costs;
• Dynamic deployment > Improves service;
• Procurement optimisation > Decreases supply costs;
• Date sensitivity > Reduces obsolescence

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