RightChain | Supply Chains Solved

RightChain.ai is employed to answer the following inventory optimization questions.

Operations & Execution Users

Operations & Execution Use Case Scenarios

Planning & Strategy Use Case Scenarios

Planning & Strategy Users

Planning

& Strategy

Operations

& Execution

High level product portfolio and logistics strategy. High level inventory and service level planning and strategy development.

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Which products should be discontinue and/or consolidate and centralize?

C /VP of Operations, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Sourcing, S&OP Internal and external consultants, analysts and planners for supply chain, inventory, merchandising, sourcing and S&OP

What should our inventory turn and fill rate target be for each product, in each location, for each time period to maximize gross margin and gross margin return on inventory? What forecasting algorithm maximizes our forecast accuracy for each product for each location for each time period? What production lot sizes for each product for each time period minimize total manufacturing cost? What procurement and purchasing lot sizes for each product for each time period maximize our gross margin and gross margin return on inventory? What deployment of inventory across suppliers, factories, warehouses, DCs, customers, and in-transit minimizes our total supply chain cost?

Production scheduling, Buyer negotiating and planning Demand planning, Production scheduling, Buyer negotiating and planning

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Directors and Managers of Purchasing, Production and Production Scheduling Merchants, Buyers, Planners, Forecasters

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High level, long and mid-term operations, supply chain, production, capacity, sourcing, and network planning and strategy.

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Production scheduling

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Buyer planning, Purchase order sizing

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Supply chain analysts, Inventory controllers

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