Supply Chain Solution: Demand Forecast & Replenishment

Increase profits and ensure optimal stock availability

10x

increased availability
80%

out-of-stock rate reductions
50x

fewer manual interventions

Speed to value: optimization of processes based on data
Precision: KPI-driven forecasting and replenishment
Automation: reduced cost to serve
Demand-driven: customer aligned supply chain
Innovation: self-learning supply chain systems

Why Blue Yonder Demand Forecast & Replenishment

Our artificial intelligence solution delivers probabilistic forecasts based on hundreds of different variables including weather, promotions, and holidays. This allows the business strategy to automate millions of daily replenishment decisions across products and stores.

Demand Forecast & Replenishment determines the optimal order quantities for every product and every store, every day without the need of unnecessary manual intervention. These order quantities are based on a weighted optimization of competing goals such as waste and out of stocks.

Blue Yonder Demand Forecast & Replenishment is highly scalable, delivering order proposals in advance, freeing up resource to deliver your brand promise and meet changing customer expectations.

Demand Forecasting
Replenishment
Inventory Optimization

Demand Forecasting

What it does

Our forecasting engine provides a robust yet unbiased view of customer demand. It calculates probabilistic forecasts for end-to-end agile business processes with millions of item/stores or channel combinations.

What it delivers

Forecasting based on not just the sales data but weather, promotions, holidays
Demand predictions for new products based on descriptive master data
Probabilistic view instead of “point projections”

What are the benefits

Improved forecasting accuracy by machine learning techniques proven in retail
Profitable demand planning for profitable and localized customer experience

Replenishment

What it does

The Blue Yonder solution focuses on KPI performance. The replenishment algorithms are based on weighted optimization of competing goals, without the need to compromise on operational constraints.

What it delivers

Recommended order quantities based on optimal trade-off between competing cost factors
Constraints-led (e.g. packs, pallets, etc.) final order quantities
Simplicity in monitoring performance and exceptional situations

What are the benefits

Effortless reduction in inventory according to sales and service level strategies
Improved sell-through and inventory turns right down to the item-level
Increased operational efficiency in supply chain

Inventory Optimization

What it does

Our solution enables inventory optimization based on a retailer’s stock management policies. This ensures that the replenishment and stocking decisions based on that optimization also achieve category and financial planning goals, on a daily basis.

What it delivers

Consistent and efficient inventory management
Reduction of retailer’s cost to serve
Supply chain performance monitored at item-level

What are the benefits

Consumer demand-driven supply chain
Optimization based on economic and supply chain constraints
Better customer experience

How Does Demand Forecast & Replenishment Work?

Blue Yonder Replenishment Optimization for Retail

Highlights of Our Solution

Scientific optimization based on machine learning instead of a a rule-based system
Daily optimized replenishment decisions, essential for the fresh and perishable food category
Automated forecasting without daily adjustments of individual parameters or maintenance of static rules
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