GME

GME is the premier distributor of fall protection and safety equipment, serving contractors in the renewable energy, construction, and telecommunications industries. Committed to elevating customer experience, GME offers a complete solution that includes kitting and training certifications. In a nutshell, GME provides essential equipment such as ropes, safety restraints, tools, and PPE to keep workers safe and productive on the job.

Benefits

• GME streamlined decision-making by consolidating data onto a single, easy-to-read page, boosting efficiency by up to 40%
• Integrating Slim4 helped GME save the cost of hiring two additional inventory planners

Client Needs

When GME started looking for a demand planning forecasting solution, their main priority was creating a more straightforward demand planning and forecasting processes and optimising order levels. On top of that, it was important to GME to find a partner that provided excellent support with highly responsive and regular communication.

Business Challenge

Their current ERP system was exceptionally complicated, requiring large amounts of manual data processing and significant consulting expenses to make changes.

GME handles an SKU count of 200,000 across 6 locations. Managing inventory levels for over half a million SKU-locations had become an unwieldy task. Furthermore, the existing calculations to set the order levels were manual and offered limited scope for automation.

Implementation

“Compared to some of the hiccups we’ve had with software implementations in the past, the Slim4 implementation was exceptionally smooth and fairly rapid. Although we faced some inconsistencies and unanticipated challenges, we overcame these to improve performance. Overall, it was a very smooth process as we integrated Slim4 into our ERP.”

– Robert Fritz, Director of Operations at GME Supply

Slim4 Features

Slim4 helps visualise precisely the items that need review without the need for spreadsheets. Instead, you get graphs, different visualizations, and drill-downs making it easy to look at an item quickly and make a decision. Furthermore, Slimstock’s platform makes it easy to identify emerging trends or changes in demand that need attention.

Key Results

• Leveraged responsive exception-based alerts to automate purchasing and inventory management.
• Eliminated the build-up of obsolete stock, reducing inventory while saving planning team time and ensuring better resource availability.
• Streamlined management of supplemental suppliers to optimise the import process.