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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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5 Supply Chain Planning Technology Recommendations From Experts
Read: 5 Supply Chain Planning Technology Recommendations From ExpertsFive supply chain planning technology recommendations drawn from Lora Cecere, Gartner, Adrian Gonzalez, John Gattorna and Nucleus Research in 2016: supply planning,…
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A101 Supply Chain: A 2016 Interview With Orhan Daglioglugil
Read: A101 Supply Chain: A 2016 Interview With Orhan DaglioglugilOrhan Daglioglugil, named a 2016 Pro to Know, on how the A101 supply chain served a fast-growing hard discount chain: lean culture…
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S&OP Implementation: Process Design, Monthly Cycle and Roles
Read: S&OP Implementation: Process Design, Monthly Cycle and RolesHow to implement S&OP: scope and decision rights, the five-step monthly cycle, who owns each step, the data the process needs, scenario-based…
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Forecast Accuracy Metrics: MAPE, WMAPE, Bias and FVA
Read: Forecast Accuracy Metrics: MAPE, WMAPE, Bias and FVAHow to measure forecasts with MAPE, WMAPE, bias and forecast value added, which level and lag to measure at, and why the…
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Looking Forward to 2016: A Supply Chain Planning Outlook
Read: Looking Forward to 2016: A Supply Chain Planning OutlookSolvoyo founder and CEO Koray Dogan’s late-2015 letter on what would shape supply chain planning in 2016: executable plans, lower-carbon planning, cloud…
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Low-Carbon Supply Chain Planning: Measure, Price and Cut CO2
Read: Low-Carbon Supply Chain Planning: Measure, Price and Cut CO2How to put CO2 into operational and tactical supply chain planning: measuring transport, warehouse and production emissions, carbon as a cost or…
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Part I – Paris 2015: Climate Change and Supply Chain Planning
Read: Part I – Paris 2015: Climate Change and Supply Chain PlanningWritten days after the 2015 Paris Agreement, Omer Bakkalbasi’s case for why supply chain managers should measure, model and cut their CO2,…
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3PL Capacity Planning: Shared Warehouses, Fleets and Clients
Read: 3PL Capacity Planning: Shared Warehouses, Fleets and ClientsHow a 3PL plans warehouse space, labor, docks and fleet for many clients at once: correcting client forecasts, pooling peaks, planning capacity…
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Post-Merger Supply Chain Integration: Network, SKUs and Systems
Read: Post-Merger Supply Chain Integration: Network, SKUs and SystemsHow to integrate two supply chains after a merger: mapping network overlap, rationalizing SKUs and suppliers, consolidating planning systems, the first 100…
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ABC XYZ Inventory Segmentation: Policies That Fit Each Item
Read: ABC XYZ Inventory Segmentation: Policies That Fit Each ItemHow ABC XYZ inventory segmentation classifies items by value and demand variability, how to set service levels and review cycles for each…
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Omnichannel Demand Forecasting: Channels, Levels and Returns
Read: Omnichannel Demand Forecasting: Channels, Levels and ReturnsHow to forecast demand across stores, online and click and collect: why a total forecast falls short, cannibalization between channels, returns, which…
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Prescriptive Analytics in Supply Chain: From Forecast to Decision
Read: Prescriptive Analytics in Supply Chain: From Forecast to DecisionWhat prescriptive analytics in supply chain is, how it differs from descriptive, diagnostic and predictive analytics, why optimization over real constraints makes…
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