Resource Hub
Our case studies, blog posts and whitepapers on supply chain planning, all in one place.
Case Studies
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How a Commercial Cleaning Supplier Cut Inventory 55% and Raised Service 200 bps With One Daily Plan
Read: How a Commercial Cleaning Supplier Cut Inventory 55% and Raised Service 200 bps With One Daily PlanA commercial cleaning supplier runs master data, forecasting, order promising, purchasing, kit production planning and inventory on one daily Solvoyo plan. Inventory…
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From Spreadsheets to Scale: How Viome Automates Its Supply Chain Decisions
Read: From Spreadsheets to Scale: How Viome Automates Its Supply Chain DecisionsTurning complex manual planning into a streamlined, autonomous supply chain backbone.
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Planning at 93% Acceptance: How a Mid-Market CPG Automated End-to-End Planning Across 60,000 Service Locations
Read: Planning at 93% Acceptance: How a Mid-Market CPG Automated End-to-End Planning Across 60,000 Service LocationsA mid-market consumer packaged goods company in North America with $250M in revenue, serving 60,000+ service locations with 7,000+ active SKUs sourced…
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Global S&OP in One Week: How P&G Grooming Reconciles Demand and Supply Across 180 Countries
Read: Global S&OP in One Week: How P&G Grooming Reconciles Demand and Supply Across 180 CountriesProcter & Gamble Grooming is the global leader in shaving and grooming, holding 70% market share with over $7 billion in annual…
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How İstegelsin Achieved a 14-Point Availability Leap with Real-Time Fresh Product Automation
Read: How İstegelsin Achieved a 14-Point Availability Leap with Real-Time Fresh Product Automationİstegelsin, Turkey’s fast-growing Q-commerce player, was a leading Turkish rapid grocery delivery company operating a network of dark stores across multiple cities.
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Studenac Market Conquers Seasonal Chaos Across 1,000+ Locations
Read: Studenac Market Conquers Seasonal Chaos Across 1,000+ Locations8x planner productivity boost. 81% user acceptance rate. 55% decrease in lost sales. When Croatia’s largest Adriatic retail chain partnered with Solvoyo…
Whitepapers
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Decision Automation: No-touch Execution of Your Plan With AI
Read: Decision Automation: No-touch Execution of Your Plan With AIClose the Gap Between Planning and Execution with AI Powered Decision Automation Whether ERP or OMS, TMS or WMS, the execution systems…
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Markdown Optimization in Retail: How It Works and How to Choose Software
Read: Markdown Optimization in Retail: How It Works and How to Choose SoftwareMarkdown optimization sets when, how deep and where to discount each style, so stock sells through by its exit date at the…
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Selecting a Supply Chain Planning Platform
Read: Selecting a Supply Chain Planning PlatformDefining Business Needs Supply chain planning used to be a lot easier, but with today’s world of global sourcing and an almost…
Blog
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Cost to Serve: What It Is, How to Calculate It and How to Reduce It
Read: Cost to Serve: What It Is, How to Calculate It and How to Reduce ItCost to serve is the full cost of getting a product to a customer after it is made or bought. The formula,…
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Inventory Management vs. Inventory Planning: What Each Decides
Read: Inventory Management vs. Inventory Planning: What Each DecidesInventory management (stock management) records and controls the stock you have; inventory planning decides how much to hold, where and when. This…
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Food and Beverage Supply Chain Best Practices: 9 Practices and What Good Looks Like
Read: Food and Beverage Supply Chain Best Practices: 9 Practices and What Good Looks LikeNine practices for planning food and beverage supply chains, from shelf life and promotions to production changeovers, frozen networks and S&OP, each…
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Inventory Turnover: Formula, Examples and How to Improve It Without Stockouts
Read: Inventory Turnover: Formula, Examples and How to Improve It Without StockoutsInventory turnover counts how many times average inventory sells in a period. The formulas, a worked example, how to read the ratio…
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Excess and Obsolete Inventory: Causes, Costs and How to Prevent It
Read: Excess and Obsolete Inventory: Causes, Costs and How to Prevent ItExcess and obsolete inventory starts as an ordering decision. How to tell excess from obsolete and dead stock, why it builds up,…
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Inventory Replenishment: Methods, Formulas and How to Prevent Stockouts
Read: Inventory Replenishment: Methods, Formulas and How to Prevent StockoutsInventory replenishment decides when to reorder, how much and for which location. The standard methods, their formulas, which one fits which product,…
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Exception-Based Planning: How Planners Work the Queue
Read: Exception-Based Planning: How Planners Work the QueueHow exception-based planning works: planners review only the lines that break a rule. How to set thresholds and alerts, what an actionable…
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Supply Chain Planning Proof of Concept: Scope, Metrics, Traps
Read: Supply Chain Planning Proof of Concept: Scope, Metrics, TrapsHow to set up a supply chain planning proof of concept on your own data: what it should prove, scope, data, success…
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What-If Analysis in Supply Chain Planning: Types, Speed and Use
Read: What-If Analysis in Supply Chain Planning: Types, Speed and UseWhat what-if analysis in supply chain planning is, the demand, supply, capacity, cost and network scenarios planners run, how fast they need…
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Supply Chain Planning for Mid-Market Manufacturers: First Steps
Read: Supply Chain Planning for Mid-Market Manufacturers: First StepsHow mid-market CPG manufacturers and distributors can plan production constraints and distributor networks with a small team, which planning modules to start…
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Supply Chain Inefficiencies: Where to Look and How to Measure
Read: Supply Chain Inefficiencies: Where to Look and How to MeasureWhere supply chain inefficiencies hide and how to measure each one from data you already have: excess and obsolete stock, expediting, partial…
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Supply Chain Disruption Planning: Scenarios, Buffers and Triggers
Read: Supply Chain Disruption Planning: Scenarios, Buffers and TriggersHow to plan for weather and climate events, supplier outages and demand shocks before they happen: rank exposed nodes by time to…
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Supply Chain Planning for Mid-Size Retailers: Where to Start
Read: Supply Chain Planning for Mid-Size Retailers: Where to StartWhen spreadsheets and ERP min/max rules stop scaling for a growing retailer, which planning processes to automate first, how big the planning…
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Supply Chain Planning Data Integration: What to Connect and How
Read: Supply Chain Planning Data Integration: What to Connect and HowWhich data a supply chain planning system needs from ERP, WMS and POS, how to move it (batch files, APIs, database transfers,…
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Explainable AI in Supply Chain Planning: Earning Planner Trust
Read: Explainable AI in Supply Chain Planning: Earning Planner TrustWhy planners override planning systems, what makes a recommendation trustworthy (visible constraints, reasons, scenario comparison) and how explainable AI in supply chain…
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How to Choose Supply Chain Planning Software: 6 Criteria
Read: How to Choose Supply Chain Planning Software: 6 CriteriaSix criteria for choosing supply chain planning software: optimization depth, concurrent planning, acceptance rate and explainability, integration, time to value and references,…
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Seasonal Demand Planning in Retail: Peaks, Builds and Clearance
Read: Seasonal Demand Planning in Retail: Peaks, Builds and ClearanceHow retailers plan for seasonal peaks: forecasting with thin history, pre-season builds, initial allocation, in-season replenishment and end-of-season clearance, with the Studenac…
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Automated Store Replenishment: How Store Orders Are Calculated
Read: Automated Store Replenishment: How Store Orders Are CalculatedHow automated store replenishment calculates each store order from the forecast, presentation stock, pack sizes, lead times, delivery schedules and shelf life,…
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