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Demand Management

With One Network, the retailer and the suppliers work together as a community and all their processes are focused around actual shelf consumption.

When the retailer and the suppliers work together driven by shelf consumption, it eliminates the need for near term demand forecasting as companies use actual sales instead of forecast. AMR calls it demand sensing and demand translation.

The results include:

1. Reduced Demand Variability with real time visibility of the demand data between the shelf and supplier factories
2. Better preparedness with projection into future issues and visibility into historical issues.
3. Reduced inventory costs with decreased information latencies
4. Best-in-class service levels at the DCs, and stores for turn, seasonal and promoted items

Demand Planning

Sensing the changes in demand trends and rapidly responding to the changes is vital for a Supply Chain's success. This calls for a demand planning system that accurately forecasts the point of sale, handles noisy data, difficult demand patterns, causal events, and processes large data with minimal human intervention.

One Network's Demand Planning accurately forecasts consumer demand at any level (item, category, store, DC etc), detects the changes in the trends, allows the users to make adjustments to the demand patterns and makes these changes visible across the supply chain. The main features of One Network's Demand Planning include:

1. Top Down, Bottom Up, or Middle Out Forecast
2. Support for What-If analysis
3. Best in class forecasting algorithms and methodologies
4. Forecasts to support different product life cycle/characteristics - Core, Seasonal basic, Highly Seasonal, Short life cycle, Slow movers etc.
5. Accurate forecasts for New Product Introductions

Forecast Disaggregation

Retail supply chains begin and end at the Store, which is why store forecast is the most important forecast. One Network's Forecast Disaggregation creates an item-store level forecast using any existing aggregate forecast at say DC, Region or Channel. The Dis-aggregation solution also generates the historical sales percentages associated with the product and location heirarchies.

Multi-Tier Demand Translation

According to AMR, Demand translation is the process of translating independent or channel demand to dependent demand (requirements by supply processes).

One Network's solution translates the actual demand consumption into an order forecast so that each tier in the supply chain exactly knows the amount of product it has to produce to satisfy it’s down stream tier. In addition to the extreme precision the solution imparts to supply chain execution, it also calculates the current and future out of stocks.

Promotions Management

Forecasting and managing promotions is a long familiar issue with supply chains. A GMA study revealed that the out of stock levels for promoted items average 16% while the average out of stock levels for turn items average 8%. One Network's Promotions Management helps solve this issue by providing a platform to create, manage, forecast and collaborate on events such as promotions, weather, and local events. The solution forecasts and manages new, one-time and recurring events.

 

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