Distribution Planning
Optimized distribution and replenishment planning
Maximize service and profits with dynamic distribution planning
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Balance service and profits
Maximizing customer service levels and profit requires a distribution plan that is optimized within the context of your overall supply chain.
Optimity uses advanced optimization techniques to create a distribution plan that is fully aligned with your supplier’s plans as well as your own demand, inventory and production plans.
- Network optimization
- Real-time visibility
- Prioritize & allocate
- Collaboration
- Simulation & analytics
Optimize your entire distribution network
To optimize your distribution plans, a number of costs and constraints need to be taken into account. Storage, handling and transportation, as well as cost trade-offs linked to re-allocations and substitutions should all be considered.
Optimity automates this complex process and always presents the most profitable distribution proposal.
Proactive distribution management
Get complete visibility of your entire distribution network, from the highest level down to the individual shipments.
With a clear picture of future inventory movements, you gain better control of your distribution operation, and you can serve your customers better at a lower cost.
Automatic prioritization and allocation
Distribution planning often comes down to business trade-offs. Delays and product shortages inevitably mean that you have to prioritize who gets what and when.
Because Optimity optimizes the entire supply chain, these decisions will be made with the company’s overall service, cost and profit objectives in mind. The system not only automates this entire process, but also offers the perfect antidote to silo planning and the sub-optimal decision making that most companies struggle with.
Stay aligned and focused on the big picture
If there are any issues in your supply chain that impact your distribution plan, your planners are immediately alerted and can take action. The distribution plan forms an integrated part of the overall supply plan.
This means that communication and collaboration between functional areas is simplified and it becomes much easier to stay focused on the overall planning objectives.
Make better decisions with scenario planning
Create multiple “what-if” scenarios to test the impact of possible business scenarios and decisions.
Whether you’re thinking about adding a new warehouse or outsourcing logistics to a 3PL provider, you can simulate the outcome, including best and worst-case scenarios. With Optimity, planning will become a strategic tool for your business.
Solution features
What our customers are saying
With Optimity, our delivery performance is so much better today. I cannot emphasize enough how critical this is to our business.Trelleborg Mattias Borén, Logistics Manager
With Optimity, we now have the ability to dynamically optimise our safety stocks to match our target service levels.Orkla Patrik Färdow, COO
It soon became clear that with Optimity we didn’t just have a software vendor, but an experienced partner that could provide us with real know-how. They really understand supply chain planning and the many challenges it presents to a business.Löfbergs Jerker Friberg, Logistics Manager
A solution for growing companies
Optimity’s Distribution Planning solution will grow along with your business. Connect to your existing PLM, ERP and CRM systems to ensure the entire company is always in sync and working from the same data. You can easily expand the solution footprint by adding more modules from Optimity’s supply chain suite.
Whether you’re moving away from planning in spreadsheets or looking to optimize your entire supply chain, Optimity has the solution.
Download the White Paper - Setting the Optimal Safety Stock
Setting the right safety stock is of critical importance
It’s the buffer that ensures you can manage the fluctuations in demand and supply. You want to find the optimal mix so that you can ensure excellent service levels, but at the same time not tie-up capital in surplus stock. Read the white paper and learn how you find the right balance.
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