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FAQs
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What are the benefits delivered by Supply Chain Genius?
For all our deployments, we observed a reduction of working capital by up to 15%, and a reduction of manual work by the replenishment and planning team up to 50%.
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What is the difference between supply chain genius and an APS?
APS optimize the replenishment plan based on static, manually-managed rules and parameters. In addition, APS do not manage replenishment exceptions.
In addition to calculating the optimum replenishment plan, Supply chain genius automates and optimizes your daily replenishment tasks. From resolving master data issues, to identifying the best replenishment and inventory rules, optimizing the replenishment plan, and managing replenishment exceptions.
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Supply chain genius automates:
The identification of master data issues: weight and volumes, pallet content, assortments
The opportunities and identification of the best replenishment, inventory and buying rules: frequency, target service level, product flows, brackets, pack size, incoterms…
The management of replenishment exceptions such as the risks of shortages and the risks of excess inventory
What replenishment tasks can be automated with Supply Chain Genius?
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What type of recommendations do my teams get with Supply Chain Genius?
Supply Chain Genius provides the replenishment and planning teams with recommendations about:
Changes of master data to improve the master data quality
Best replenishment, inventory and buying rules
Best action to prevent a risk of shortage or excess inventory
What replenishment, inventory and buying rules can be automatically optimized?
Supply chain genius allows you to simulate up to 80 rules related to replenishment type, replenishment calendar, vendor contracts, product palletization, assortment, or demand growth.
Most of our customers have automated the management of the best rules related to frequency, Target service level, product flows, and brackets.
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Can I deploy Supply Chain Genius in addition to my APS?
Supply chain genius complements your APS by automatically identifying the opportunities to improve the rules used as an input by your APS. Instead of manually identifying the best rules based on a fixed calendar, Supply Chain genius continuously identifies the opportunities to improve and optimize these rules.
In addition, Supply Chain genius complements your APS by automatically identifying replenishment exceptions and the best option to mitigate them.