Promotion management

Promotions invariably lead to disruption of the standard inventory process. Promotions are fully integrated in Slim4. Slim4 will adjust stock levels in time to gain extra sales and makes sure that at the end of a promotion there is no unnecessary stock left.

Promotion forecast per article - store

Slim4 calculates the additional expected sales per article per store. This can be done by using a generic lift up factor relative to the base forecast, or by scaling down a total promotion forecast based on dynamic scaling business rules. To maintain the right forecast after a promotion, promotion sales are excluded from future forecasting, but they remain visible for users.

The right stock in time

It is often desirable to have the necessary promotion stock in place earlier. Slim4 can easily deal with this by getting goods in earlier, ordering all promotion items at once and preshipping goods to stores.

Additional facings

Some articles will get a second placing in stores during promotions. For Slim4 this is considered as a temporary additional presentation stock. It is possible to start lowering this presentation stock already during the promotion.

Adjustments during the promotion

During a promotion the Slim4 exception reports identify when actual sales differ from the projected promotion sales. Forecast adjustments can be easily made. More goods will be shipped to stores with high sales and replenishment will stop for stores which do not meet their target.

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