INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION JUST GOT BETTER
Today’s retailers and suppliers are reexamining their sourcing strategies in order to compete more effectively. One of the challenges in managing a global operation is having visibility to where factory orders are in the supply chain versus client demand. To maintain or improve customer service while keeping inventory optimized you need to KNOW precise inventory status and respond quickly to consumer demand. DiMetrics™ provides full visibility to your supply chain, helping you manage critical exceptions, and share information more effectively.
The DiMetrics Advantage:
Are goods being shipped on time and complete? Do your customers alert you of poor supply chain performance or do you alert yourself? How many exceptions do you have with one carrier versus another? Which factories continually struggle with capacity or miss shipping windows? Can this information be captured, measured, and used to collaborate with all parties in your extended supply chain? It is critical to be able to pinpoint where your goods are located, have concrete knowledge on the shipment’s location, and anticipate what items will be delivered to that location, and when it will arrive.
What DiMetrics Does:
- Net Needs Reporting: Compare and correlate supply versus demand, by item analyzed, by your client’s purchase orders, Your: on–hand, on–order, and in–transit quantities.
- Event Management: Provides definition and order to the significant occurrences within YOUR global supply chain.
- Order & Inventory Tracking: Allow logistics managers “end–to–end” visibility for an order location within the supply chain to effectively make corrections or realign shipments.
- Scheduled Sales Analysis Reporting: Automated distribution of customized point of sale reports to appropriate representatives within your organization/team.
- Exception Management: Provide conditional alerts on customer defined metrics such as ship dates, vessels, etc. Delivery available via static web, email and mobile platforms (i.e. text message).
- Supplier & Carrier Metrics: Measure trading partner fill rates, and performance based on your KPI’s (Key Performance Indicator)—track metrics based on events throughout your supply chain (i.e. late shipments, short–ship, late arrivals, etc…).
Purchase Order Status Report
DiMetrics global integrated system provides timely, online and scheduled, status reports from factories, carriers and forwarders to help improve operational speed and efficiency. Receiving continuous, real time feedback from your trading partners enables you to assess supply chain events before goods leave the factory. Collaborate and illuminate orders that are in exception and take corrective action.
Net Needs Reporting
Prevent overstock and out–of–stock from occurring with DiMetrics supply and demand comparisons. View items currently on–order from clients, in comparison to your own on–hand, in–transit and on–order quantities to help reduce and correct shortcomings. Now you have the power to change shipping methods and resolve problems to insure client orders are properly filled.
With more of your supply chain being outsourced today, it is important to have a tool like DiMetrics you can depend on for complete visibility and quality customer service. DiMetrics provides key indicators that you predefine for maximum inventory optimization and extended measurement of your supply chain execution. DiMetrics is the only reporting solution incorporating sales, sourcing, and sourcing activity in one packaged offering. Contact DiCentral today to learn more about how we can help improve your capabilities to balance your supply with demand. Call us at 281-480-1121 or email
Supply and Demand Visibility
- Identify top performing locations across all your retailers
- Identify top performing locations across all your factories
- Identify top performing locations across all your transportation providers
- Identify top performing locations across all your 3PL (Third Party Logistics) providers
Data Normalization
- Identifies trading partner Item description to a single, reportable, value used for analysis and identification
Event Management
- Assigns chronology to significant occurrences throughout the extended supply chain according to enterprise business policies
Metric Management
- Establishes enterprise–defined conditional and comparative thresholds that measure performance and “trigger” exception management processes
Metric Services
- Provides conditional alerts based on customer defined metrics (Delivery available via web, email and mobile platforms)
Web–Centric Role–Based Security
- Define permissions, views, and delivery of data based on pre–authorized user roles
Demand Analysis
- Monitor merchandiser’s promotional effectiveness
- Drill down to product sales on weekly, monthly, seasonal, and YTD basis
- Identify potential out–of–stocks… before they happen
- Identify sell trough rates by item and drill down to per store, per item characteristic, per location demographic
- Monitor sales per item, style, or category at the store level, according to YOUR defined demographics
- Collaborate with clients to optimize in–store inventory
Supply Analysis
- Monitor net needs
- Track items by order, by container, by shipment
- Monitor current manufacturing and logistics performance
- Create scorecards based on historical performance
- Collaborate with manufacturers to optimize supply chain execution
Familiar Report Format
- All reports are delivered in widely familiar Microsoft Excel table format
Report Distribution
- Reports regularly and consistently “pushed” to desktop or device via email or FTP link
- Distribute reports according to roles to include staff from production, sales, logistics, as well as your clients if desired
- Optionally, drill down, create new view add comments, then distribute reports to “outside” addresses
