Allocation & Replenishment
Execute Assortments with Current Local Demand
Accurate product placement is critical to meet the localized customer demand. Merchandisers must consider various channels, individual stores and the product attributes to meet diverse customer demand and business goals. Allocation recommends the right merchandise distribution down to size so retailers can optimize inventory, reduce waste and avoid unnecessary markdowns. With Blue Yonder’s allocation you can match your product placement to leverage merchant intent, automate distributions and replenishment to increase productivity, and work seamlessly with other retail planning solutions to maximize margins.
Benefits
Up to
4%
reduction in inventory
Up to
40%
improvement in productivity
Up to
20%
increase in allocation accuracy
Allocation & Replenishment
Make distribution decisions that align with the merchant strategy and localized demand to achieve (visual standards), maximize revenue and increase customer satisfaction.
Reduce the need to manually perform day-to-day distributions, freeing up resources to focus on strategic decisions.
Configure methodologies for investment optimization leveraging AI/ML with variable business strategies throughout the products lifecycle.
Ingest hundreds of demand-driving variables and use machine learning to provide a unique demand projection with calculated business impact and risk.
Stage the right inventory throughout your distribution network, minimizing stock-outs, while maximizing inventory turns in your supply chain.
Fulfill Your Inventory Potential with Blue Yonder
Increased allocation accuracy
Leverage AI & ML to drill down to a granular level of detail 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 the 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.
Automated exception-based allocation procedures
Reduce the need to manually make changes, saving resources, freeing up decision-makers to focus on other tasks and keeping you ahead of the game.
Improved productivity
Through effective inventory plan execution, your organization will have the ability to conduct and manage complex allocation and replenishment in less time.
Improved customer satisfaction
Make distribution decisions that align with merchant strategy and localized demand, leading to profitable inventory placement decisions and higher customer satisfaction.
“Now our customers are finding that just the right sizes are available for them whenever they shop in our stores. We’ve achieved our goal for constant improvement by increasing profits and customer satisfaction by understanding our business needs and translating them into a data-driven model for recommending pricing changes.”
Director of Merchandise Planning, KappAhl
