CUSTOMER SUCCESS

Facilitating growth
for one of the largest
discounters in Europe

SC GENIUS IMPACT

reduction in working capital in one year

THE RETAILER

Powerful partnership.
A global discount chain with 6,000 stores and cutting-edge digitalization.

  • Discount chain with multinational footprint

  • 6,000 Stores

  • 13 distribution centers

  • Highly advanced in digitalization

  • Mature advanced planning and scheduling capabilities

THE CONTEXT

Tackling the big picture. Three major challenges confronted head-on.

  • Persistent 30% growth stressing warehouse capacity and service level

  • Working capital growing faster than expected

  • Need to open 2 new countries in 2023

OUR SOLUTION

Empowering success: The journey of continuous process optimization and capital redirection with Supply Chain Genius.

Utilization of Supply Chain Genius:
Our customer leveraged Supply Chain Genius to optimize replenishment frequency, lead time, target service level, and product flow types.

Collaborative definition of business outcome:
To do this, we worked together to clearly define the targeted business outcome.

Scenario simulation with Supply Chain Genius:
Next, we used the Supply Chain Genius platform to simulate thousands of scenarios based on different combinations of business rules.

Informed decision-making:
By delivering a high degree of visibility and granularity, Supply Chain Genius enabled our customer to make informed decisions balancing trade-offs between working capital, cost, and service level.

Continuous process optimization:
Finally, we provided our customer with the expertise necessary to continuously optimize its processes using our technology.

Capital redirection for growth:
This optimization allowed the redirection of capital to critical areas, driving further growth and success.

IMPACT

SC Genius unleashed:

A showcase of powerful results.

5% improvement in working capital (~€40m reduction)
while maintaining dc capacity utilization and service Level

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FAQs

01

What are the benefits delivered by Supply Chain Genius?

For all our deployments, we observed a reduction of working capital by up to 15%, and a reduction of manual work by the replenishment and planning team up to 50%.

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What is the difference between supply chain genius and an APS?

APS optimize the replenishment plan based on static, manually-managed rules and parameters. In addition, APS do not manage replenishment exceptions.
In addition to calculating the optimum replenishment plan, Supply chain genius automates and optimizes your daily replenishment tasks. From resolving master data issues, to identifying the best replenishment and inventory rules, optimizing the replenishment plan, and managing replenishment exceptions.

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Supply chain genius automates:

  • The identification of master data issues: weight and volumes, pallet content, assortments

  • The opportunities and identification of the best replenishment, inventory and buying rules: frequency, target service level, product flows, brackets, pack size, incoterms…

  • The management of replenishment exceptions such as the risks of shortages and the risks of excess inventory

What replenishment tasks can be automated with Supply Chain Genius?

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What type of recommendations do my teams get with Supply Chain Genius?

Supply Chain Genius provides the replenishment and planning teams with recommendations about:

  • Changes of master data to improve the master data quality

  • Best replenishment, inventory and buying rules

  • Best action to prevent a risk of shortage or excess inventory

What replenishment, inventory and buying rules can be automatically optimized?

Supply chain genius allows you to simulate up to 80 rules related to replenishment type, replenishment calendar, vendor contracts, product palletization, assortment, or demand growth.
Most of our customers have automated the management of the best rules related to frequency, Target service level, product flows, and brackets.

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Can I deploy Supply Chain Genius in addition to my APS?

Supply chain genius complements your APS by automatically identifying the opportunities to improve the rules used as an input by your APS. Instead of manually identifying the best rules based on a fixed calendar, Supply Chain genius continuously identifies the opportunities to improve and optimize these rules.
In addition, Supply Chain genius complements your APS by automatically identifying replenishment exceptions and the best option to mitigate them.