Retail

In the current environment of downward pressure on sales, rapidly changing product preferences and increased competition, some of the world’s leading retailers are dramatically increasing their profitability by re-designing and optimising their supply chains. They use state-of-the-art modelling technology to analyse how their supply chain will perform under a wide range of market conditions and assumptions, examining the trade-offs between cost, service and risk. Retailers that maintain these living digital models of their end-to-end supply chains are able to identify as much as 10-20 percent cost savings while maintaining or even increasing customer service levels.

BMA supports the retail industry with solutions that address retail-specific issues, such as:

• Evaluate, quantify and compare, side-by-side, different distribution strategies
• decide on extending existing DC capacity or moving to different premises (and where these should be optimally located)
• right-sizing inventory strategies to lower working capital while increasing availability and service levels
• visualising the tipping point between purchase price, quantity and downstream supply chain costs, to achieve desired service levels and maximise profitability
• identify strategies for improving sourcing, transportation and distribution paths to optimise cost-to-serve, at category or SKU level
• understand how to best manage and optimise multiple go-to-market channels such as brick-and-mortar retail, wholesale, e-commerce and third-party channels
• simulate the impact of a selected distribution and inventory strategy during peak demand periods.
• Optimise transportation routes from DCs to stores, and the optimal assignment of stores to DCs