Efficiently managing your supply chain is a critical element to your business and one that is very complex. The Valogix Inventory Planner contains proprietary, multi-stage planning engines, encompassing the entire process from forecasting to inventory optimization, to planning and replenishment, all within a single solution. Valogix provides several advantages over competitive solutions where multiple modules are required to manage this process.

Retailers manage and sell a large number of different products, particularly with distinctions such as size, color, and style. Demand can be reasonably steady, as with food and hardware or highly seasonal, as with clothes. For steady demand items, retailers tend to set an order point and order quantity. For example, whenever the number of an item in stock goes below 3, order 12 more. For seasonal items, retailers usually buy the items from suppliers before the season, and there is seldom a chance for replenishing stocks mid-season if the item is a big seller.

Advanced inventory management from Valogix Inventory Planner enables Automotive Aftermarket Parts companies to optimize inventory levels and streamline supply chain processes. Automotive Parts companies can generate real-time reports that recommend stocking levels and dates for inventory replenishment orders.

Valogix Inventory Planner determines which items to stock, which items to order, and which items are excess or overstocked. It manages a vast number of items and locations, and provides flexibility with many different planning parameters. Valogix can help you decrease inventory investment, replenishment expenditures and costs from emergency shipments.

Planning and Forecasting inventory for Campus Bookstores presents several unique challenges. The Valogix Inventory Planner facilitates a dynamic approach to quickly and efficiently adapt to the ever-changing needs of students and faculty. Limited physical space combined with fluctuating demand requires precise forecasting and optimal Stocking Quantities to mitigate overstock and stock-outs.

Aftermarket service and MRO covers the maintenance and repair of equipment, facilities and machinery. With many parts to manage and a lack of powerful planning tools, many companies with parts inventories have too many of the wrong parts. The result is unnecessary inventory expense, while still suffering service-limiting stock-outs.

Manual efforts to improve this situation fail, because of the time-intensive nature of the problem. A large number of parts, each with special considerations, can quickly bog down someone trying to improve the parts purchases. Whether planning for one location or multiple locations, service parts and MRO planning can be a daunting task.

If you own a small business that carries inventory and are part of a dealer network, buying group, co-op or franchise organization, then Valogix Inventory Planner is just right for you! Stocking and replenishing the inventory is up to you and that is no easy task, especially in today’s economy. Inventory management has become more challenging and being a part of an eco-system (group or franchise) brings other challenges. You may still be maintaining inventories manually and performing complicated computations using spreadsheets and older replenishment methods. Keeping track of reorder points can become an overwhelming task as your business grows and standard inventory control modules and spreadsheets offer little help in driving down costs and improving revenues.