The performance of your signboard is depending on various aspects: marketing, commercials, logistic…
You have to control each step of the supply chain from the offer construction to the store sales, including sales, sourcing strategies, finances, human resources, logistic… At each step, problematic are complex. Here are some instances:
Commercial & Marketing Direction
- How could we define a reasonable price for an article? Another formulation: How could we optimize a product margin as well as its optimal price? (Based on its sale history, consumers behavior, price-volume elasticity, product cannibalizations effects).
- How could we optimize you promotional policy? Another formulation: how could we build an annual planning with the pertinent bases of past actions?
- How can we optimize the store staff and certify the quality of the service?
Sales direction:
- How could we construct the optimal range structure to improve the achieving target (sales, volume, margin)? How could we improve sales volume and distribution? How could we measure and control risks? This challenge is accentuated by the shortening of products or collections life cycle, and by the pressure on selling prices.
- How could we conciliate a centralized management (sales, management control) with an international network development? How could we tailor assortments, manage the temporal collections spreading?
- How could we detect a product sale increase (trend products in each store) and forecast the good timing?
Direction logistique / des flux :
- How could we calculate with accuracy inventory levels in stores and warehouses?
- How could we define the best strategy for disposing of stocks?
- How could we ensure the expected control levels without taxing the goods or articles flow?
- How could we provide my resource needs for each activity and ensure the load management at the best price?
All those elements interacts with each others, and thus, they must be integrated around the same solution of measure, forecast and decision support.
The goal is to make the best decision at different times of supply or sale cycle. Our vision: Forecasting is a tool for collaborative steering including 3 key components:
1/ Calculation Engine :
It is coming from the latest research in applied mathematics.
It allows us to define a new approach to your problematic because it conciliates both time constraints management and problematic complexity you have to face.
It uses your data (sales, stock, sales operations…) and exogenous data, certain data (scheduled events, holidays …) or uncertain (weather, INSEE data …).
This engine is in the heart of our solution and propose two main advantages:
- It was designed with modularity in order to offer options in relation to your priorities.
- It is scalable and allows the integration of additional functions in order to “gather” all your department around one shared forecast.
In this way, we can meet your priorities while building "brick by brick" the common platform used by all players in the supply chain of your business.
2 / The user interfaces :
We have the flexibility to offer the best suited user interface for your context.
You could either integrate our solutions into your existing applications (ERP applications or home), enjoy our interfaces, develop specific interfaces or any interface component according to your expectations.
In all cases, we believe that predicting outcome of our solutions must be combined with the expertise of your staff.
Therefore, our solutions could not only explain what this forecast is made up, but is also associated with margins of uncertainty.
We could thus consider:
- Process fully or partially automated
- Forecasts accompanied by explanatory material to facilitate the decision of your business experts.
3 / audit tool and continuous monitoring:
We have specifically designed this tool to:
- check in permanence the relevance of your forecasts,
- emit issue warnings in case of reported abuse, and so you could take the proper decision.
- enable us to improve and constantly adapt our algorithms based on changes in your brand name.
Our solution is called : PROVISIA
Please feel free to ask any question you have. We would appreciate to present you our expertise and our contributions for your context.
Our sales and technical teams are at your disposable.
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