Consumer Products   Optiant’s solution for Consumer Products creates the most responsive and resilient supply chains in the industry.
More than ever, consumer goods manufacturers are facing increasing pressures from retailers to get the right amount of product to store shelves on time. With countless choices, consumers are more demanding as ever. Consumer Product companies require a well-designed supply chain that is not only flexible, but also efficient. Optiant’s Solution for Consumer Products has been designed to proactively address intense competition, retail consolidation, marketing efficiency, and the need to strengthen customer relationships.
Through Optiant’s robust PowerChain Suite, Consumer Product companies can cut supply chain and logistics costs and achieve better insight into meeting actual demand.
Solution Benefits
- Reduces inventory by 30% and improves service levels by 2%
- Designs and builds the most efficient finished goods distribution network
- Increases margins by clearly differentiating products and services by channel to accommodate multiple service strategies
- Enables new products to be introduced in half the time and at a lower cost
Consumer Products Solution Benefits & Related Capabilities
Benefit: Reduces inventory by 30% and improves service levels by 2%
Key Capabilities:
- Best in class modeling environment that can model supply chain operational constraints accurately
- Suggested inventory policies that attain service target levels despite uncertain demand and supply
- True multi-echelon inventory optimization to minimize total supply chain costs
Benefit: Designs and builds the most efficient finished goods distribution network
Key Capabilities:
- Interface to network design software to add variability analysis to greenfield network design analyses, which are inherently deterministic.
- Critical inventory view of the design of transportation and warehousing infrastructure. (For example, it quantifies the value of consolidating two distribution centers into one.)
- Management of inventory throughout the distribution network by exception, enabling planner intervention where appropriate and automatically handling other cases.
Benefit: Increases margins by clearly differentiating products and services by channel to accommodate multiple service strategies
Key Capabilities:
- Accommodation of service strategies by product, customer, or any combination.
- Optimization of inventories to deliver guaranteed service to complex differentiated service policies
- Quantification of the total supply chain cost and margins of various product/service differentiation strategies to enable profit-based service decisions.
Benefit: Enables new products to be introduced in half the time and at a lower cost
Key Capabilities:
- Accurate optimization of the assembly of common components in shared supply chains
- Preservation of accurate supply chain models for reuse in New Product Introduction
- Formulation of innovative postponement strategies for best-in-class design
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