Bulk & Liquids Replenishment
With transportation costs on the rise and capacity becoming scarcer, your replenishment and distribution processes are getting increasingly complex and demanding. Your customers expect on-time deliveries. How do you balance service levels with inventory costs? How do you prevent stock-outs? Our bulk & liquids replenishment solutions offer state-of-the-art forecasting capabilities and the world’s most advanced route optimizers to help you run your business smoothly and effectively.
Cost-effective and sustainable operations for bulk and liquids
Your distribution capacity is limited, yet customer expectations are rising. To be efficient, you need to balance transportation costs and drop sizes. A solid prediction of usage is key. What is your cost-to-serve? And how does it relate to your sustainability ambitions? Our solutions for downstream distribution provide advanced algorithms that help you meet your business demands continuously and find the right balance to stay competitive.
Replenishment and distribution software for end-to-end visibility and control
Our solutions for bulk & liquids replenishment leverage your Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) capabilities to improve customer service and reduce transportation costs. Our solutions go beyond the capabilities of your ERP, TMS or WMS. They help you stay one step ahead in an increasingly challenging market.
Our six-step framework:
- Predict: Use your historical data to forecast demand and estimate the capacity required.
- Prepare: Use your forecasted information to allocate volumes and loads and to analyze business scenarios.
- Plan: Create optimized orders based on operational forecasts; plan & schedule both routes and loads for daily operations.
- Execute: Get a real-time overview and control of the plan’s realization (control-tower concept).
- Monitor: Be in control of your operations with transparency over all operational data & KPIs.
- Improve: Use intelligent analytics apps to improve your business in a continuous manner.
Our solution helps you meet and exceed your KPIs
Built on 40+ years of excellence in the field of logistics, our solution combines advanced forecasting based on machine learning algorithms with route optimization and real-time planning. It helps you monitor and optimize inventory levels, plan your resources in a flexible way, and schedule deliveries while considering your business’ key variables and constraints.
