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We selected SmartOps because they deliver an impressive, end-to-end solution that will facilitate Shaw's efforts to improve our inventory planning, drive down the total cost of inventory, and allow us to ensure higher product availability and service to our customers.


Brian Pijanowski
Senior Vice President of Buying & Merchandising
Shaw's Supermarkets


Solutions

Setting Accurate Inventory Targets and Supply Chain Planning Targets



You will have read these words only about 10,000 times: Each industry has its own unique set of challenges. Your response is "Great. Now how can you address mine?"

Because of our work across so many different industries, we at SmartOps have gained the on-the-ground, in-the-trenches expertise necessary to know (precisely) how to combine our solutions in ways that are most relevant to your industry.

By focusing on inventory, we are focusing on one of the most significant clues to help identify the key drivers of your company's supply chain performance. While this is not a glamorous description, inventory is the consequence of many different strategic and tactical choices across your organization. Our solutions can help make those choices more transparent, more rational, more profitable, and (as difficult as this might be to believe) automatic.

SmartOps' leading products can be combined to create unique solutions that address the differences and intricacies of each industry:

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SmartOps Solutions


Inventory / Order Fulfillment

 

Multistage Inventory Planning & Optimization (MIPOTM):  Proven and market-leading solution for determining optimal time-varying inventory targets for every item, at every location throughout your supply chain

 

Forecasting

 

Adaptive Structural ForecastingTM (ASF): Provides a new and unique method for deriving accurate forecasts that factor in seasonal and promotional variability at the item and location levels

 

Replenishment Planning 

Replenishment Planning & Optimization (RPO): Optimizes total net landed costs using analytical insights into costs to determine optimal ordering patterns and quantities

 

Capacity Planning/Utilization

 

Shared Capacity Optimization (SCO): Capacitated lot-sizing and scheduling engine integrated with MIPO to provide feasible and implementable inventory and production planning targets