Retail

Quintiq is solving many of Retail’s planning challenges. Manning the stores with optimal resources, fulfilling store demands through planning primary or secondary distribution, satisfying consumer demand directly through B2C with advanced diary promise and home delivery capability.

These activities all share common attributes:

• Optimizing the use of resources
• Minimizing cost and carbon footprint
• Ensuring product availability
• Enhancing the customer experience

Quintiq provides a standard planning application that can be configured to exactly reflect each and every planning puzzle. No compromize. No hidden cost buffers. No planning for failure.

Quintiq's Retail Planning Solution

The key to achieving operational efficiency is integrating all commercial, distribution centers, as well as network and home delivery processes, so that your entire organization is focused on common goals. In order to reach this, Quintiq provides advanced optimization capabilities from the tactical level down to the real-time event management.

Quintiq can take into account all the elements of the supply chain in a single environment. Multiple planning levels are supported as well as multi-resource planning. Finally, when making planning decisions, you need immediate insight into their effects on your key performance indicators (KPIs). Only with an advanced planning solution can you achieve operational efficiency, organizational agility, service offering flexibility and financial success.

Key Benefits of Quintiq Retail Planning Solution

 

Network Planning

• Company-Wide visibility into operations across all planning levels.
• Significant savings in network operation costs because of better volume-capacity balancing.

Primary Distribution

• Optimize stock holding capacity of network by pulling required quantity of inventory to optimal locations.
• Minimize stock movement for secondary distribution and home delivery.

Secondary Distribution

• Integrated planning - routes, network and depot operations are coordinated real-time to synchronize the flow of activities and push the buffers out of the organization.
• Improved utilization of capacity through efficient assigning of vehicles and personnel on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Reduced labor costs – Optimally align workforce supply with demand.

Home Delivery

• Significant cost savings – Benefit from efficient resource utilization and increased productivity.
• Exceptional customer service levels and service quality – Attain a strong competitive position.
• Service flexibility – Easily and quickly offer new or tailored services while taking advantage of existing resources.
• Fewer tours – Reduced by realtime dispatch and the elimination of ad-hoc tours.
• Reduced fuel consumption and carbon footprint through efficient tour generation, integration with telematics, and improved first-time delivery rates.
• Exceptional and profitable delivery performance – Choose the most profitable deliveries and confidently stand behind flexible delivery schedules.