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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Strategic vs. Tactical vs. Operational Supply Chain Planning
Read: Strategic vs. Tactical vs. Operational Supply Chain PlanningStrategic, tactical and operational supply chain planning split one job by horizon and cadence. What each level decides, how often it runs,…
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Warehouse Capacity Planning: Putting DC Limits in the Supply Plan
Read: Warehouse Capacity Planning: Putting DC Limits in the Supply PlanWarehouse capacity planning sets how much each DC can store, receive and ship. Here is how those storage, handling and labor limits…
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Supply Chain Planning in Excel: Where It Breaks and When to Move
Read: Supply Chain Planning in Excel: Where It Breaks and When to MoveWhere supply chain planning in Excel breaks (scale, versions, constraints, no optimization), the signs it is time to move, and what to…
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Mathematical Optimization in Supply Chain: What Optimal Means
Read: Mathematical Optimization in Supply Chain: What Optimal MeansWhat mathematical optimization means in supply chain planning: the three parts of a model, what optimal means, how the optimality gap works…
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SaaS vs On-Premise Supply Chain Planning: What Changes
Read: SaaS vs On-Premise Supply Chain Planning: What ChangesSaaS and on-premise planning software run the same math. Cost model, upgrades, compute scale, security and implementation time are what differ, and…
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Retail Supply Chain Planning: Scope, Challenges and Automation
Read: Retail Supply Chain Planning: Scope, Challenges and AutomationWhat retail supply chain planning covers, from forecasting and store replenishment to allocation and markdowns, why it is hard at retail scale,…
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Linear vs. Nonlinear Optimization in Supply Chain Planning
Read: Linear vs. Nonlinear Optimization in Supply Chain PlanningMost planning models are linear, but freight breaks, quantity discounts and safety stock are not. How to model nonlinear costs and why…
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Operations Research in Supply Chain Management: Where It Works
Read: Operations Research in Supply Chain Management: Where It WorksOperations research uses mathematical models to pick the best supply chain plan under real constraints. Where it is used, how optimization, heuristics…
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