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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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Resistance Is Futile: Machines Are Here To Stay, Embrace Machine Learning In Supply Chain!
Read: Resistance Is Futile: Machines Are Here To Stay, Embrace Machine Learning In Supply Chain!Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been the talk of the industry a lot now. Resisting to adopt this technology is futile.…
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From How We Love to How We Innovate
Read: From How We Love to How We Innovate“ENTJ?”; I was in my 20s when I did my first Myers Briggs personality test working in Corporate America. It was quite…
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Are Your Planning And Retail Analytics Tools Fast Enough For Fast Fashion?
Read: Are Your Planning And Retail Analytics Tools Fast Enough For Fast Fashion?Over the last decade, apparel retail has gone through a significant shift and has turned into a game of fast, faster and…
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Lessons In Innovation From P&G Signal Summit 2017
Read: Lessons In Innovation From P&G Signal Summit 2017As the world’s leading consumer products company, P&G has a well-deserved reputation for innovation, from reinventing the oral care market in the…
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The Supply Chain Red Pill: How Machine Learning Can Transform Your Supply Chain
Read: The Supply Chain Red Pill: How Machine Learning Can Transform Your Supply ChainAs I was growing up, one of my most recurrent dreams (other than being invisible), was to plant a chip in my…
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How Smart Is Your In-Season Pricing Capability?
Read: How Smart Is Your In-Season Pricing Capability?In today’s dynamic and competitive retail landscape, value offering is becoming more relevant to apparel brands competing for the last dollar in…
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4 Supply Chain Analytics Capabilities For Specialty Retailers
Read: 4 Supply Chain Analytics Capabilities For Specialty RetailersI have two millennial sons. They (and their girlfriends 🙂 ) represent the radically changed customer base faced by specialty retailers. They buy…
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Supply Chain Planning in The Age of Trade Wars, Brexit and Damn, Daniel. Welcome to 2017
Read: Supply Chain Planning in The Age of Trade Wars, Brexit and Damn, Daniel. Welcome to 2017As supply chain planners, much of what we do is to anticipate future outcomes and plan our activities around those expectations so…
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6 Reasons to Give Up Spreadsheets for Supply Chain Planning
Read: 6 Reasons to Give Up Spreadsheets for Supply Chain PlanningSpreadsheet software is holding your supply chain performance hostage. True – spreadsheets are low cost, easy to use, extremely versatile and universally…
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7 Reasons Why S&OPs Fail
Read: 7 Reasons Why S&OPs FailSales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a fantastic concept when you first hear its tricks and promises. It helps organizations align their…
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4 M&A Trends in Supply Chain
Read: 4 M&A Trends in Supply ChainThat acquisitions often fail is a well-known fact. We all remember the horror stories that were the coupling of SprintNextel or AOL Time…
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Wholesale Distribution Inventory Planning by SKU and Branch
Read: Wholesale Distribution Inventory Planning by SKU and BranchHow distributors plan inventory across long-tail SKUs, many customers and several branches: service targets by segment, supplier minimums and volume deals, branch…
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