FOOD & BEVERAGE
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RockySoft´s software solutions help food and beverage distributors create efficient inventory
management processes, while taking into account the numerous variables effecting product replenishment.
Characteristically, the food and beverage industry has experienced high customer expectations, stiff
competition, complex replenishment planning and perishable product. Inventory management becomes
critical to maintaining profitability on thousands of low margin items. Knowledge of customer buying
patterns is critical to maintaining adequate levels of product without excessive exposure to product
shrinkage and expiration. Furthermore, the replenishment equation is complicated by seasonal product
availability, promotions, catch weights, and extreme differences between the selling versus the
replenishment units.
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Benefits of addressing these challenges:
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Increase revenue by establishing buffer stock levels to prevent lost sales due to stock outages while minimizing the impact of product shrinkage and expiration
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Reduce inventory expense and improve productivity with automated tools for managing complex inventory replenishment plans
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Lower shipping costs with advanced replenishment, consolidated orders and price break optimization
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Increased customer retention and service level with customer focused inventory management tools
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Inventory management is essential in ensuring the timely delivery of products to the proper locations.
Requirements Planner combines all of these variables when
generating the optimal purchase quantity and replenishment date.
Supply Base Manager allows distributors to monitor vendor
performance and evaluate their ability to meet demand in comparison with agreed upon terms. Additionally,
Demand Manager can help distributors forecast their demand by
taking into account their historical data and creating a level of safety stock to assure supply of products during periods of high customer demand.
Enabling product features:
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Advanced product replenishment that incorporates the most optimum order quantity and re-order point
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Forecast and replenishment plans that accommodate seasonal product availability and promotions
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Order policies that automatically account for product yield/shrinkage
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Advanced product replenishment and order optimization based on transportation constraints
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Exception based alerts for identifying low stock items
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Promotion and event planning for determining future product sales
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