Reduce lead times
BUILDING MATERIALS
Accelerate turnover rates, reduce lead times, and eliminate waste
Slimstock’s Slim4 solution mitigates the complexity of managing the supply and distribution of different materials and products, seamlessly. Sidestep disruptions and shortages, keep fulfilment promises, and maximise profit margins.
Maximise net margins
PROVEN IMPACT ON AVAILABILITY, INVENTORY & SERVICE LEVELS FOR MORE THAN 180 BUILDING MATERIALS CUSTOMERS
The trusted partner for the building materials sector
Optimise your building materials supply chain from end-to-end
Slim4 enables you to build a more sustainable, resilient, digitally mature, agile, and collaborative supply chain. With clear, end-to-end visibility, costs can be controlled, availability is assured, and supplier risk is mitigated.
- Better connect forecasting and inventory: let AI drive more accurate forecasts to construct better inventory plans.
- Customise with complete visibility: know what’s needed from each product category and plan at a granular level.
- Optimise orders: learn from real-time supply insights to optimise lead times and fulfilment.
Overcome today’s building materials supply chain challenges
Slim4 addresses the unique demands of the building materials industry, ensuring you stay ahead in a market that relies on speed, quality, and trust.
Product quality
Challenge
The industry Is heavily regulated with stringent standards for safety, sustainability, and quality. Ticking each of these boxes depends on clear communication and visibility.
Solution
Slim4’s holistic approach ensures that you can see the full picture, always. With scenario planning functions too, all decisions can be weighed up to ensure every box is ticked.
Global sourcing
Challenge
In a broad network, calculating lead times is more challenging, as small disruptions far away can quickly translate into unmet commitments to customers.
Solution
Slim4 enables companies to monitor inventory levels across multiple locations and suppliers, foreseeing and alerting disruptions ahead of time, so you can either adapt in real-time, or communicate quickly with customers.
Supply chain visibility
Challenge
Precisely knowing what’s needed, where, and when is almost impossible without advanced supply chain technologies.
Solution
Slim4 delivers full real-time visibility, empowering decisions that consider forecasts, demand, and the true capabilities of your operations.
Supplier diversification
Challenge
Excessive reliance on specific suppliers is often worsened by limited flexibility when those suppliers encounter disruptions or constraints.
Solution
Slim4 can handle a broad range of SKUs and inventory variations, allowing companies to manage a diverse portfolio of customised building materials, but also a more diverse range of suppliers.
Overstocking
Challenge
To mitigate supply concerns, it’s easy to overstock, causing mass inventory inefficiencies and removing profit from ultimate net margins.
Solution
With more accurate, AI-driven forecasts comes more precise stock levels, allowing you to optimise labour, equipment, and capacity.
Material prices
Challenge
Raw material prices fluctuate regularly, impacting accurate business planning and profit projections, which can lead to misguided procurement decisions.
Solution
Slim4 demand forecasting help businesses track pricing fluctuations and adjust purchasing strategies accordingly.
Slim4’s key features for building materials
Slimstock’s holistic platform provides powerful, industry-specific tools to transform supply chain planning and execution for the building materials sector.
Slim4’s BOM and production planning functions ensure complete synchronisation between initial raw material decisions, and the finished products required.
Anticipate market needs using predictive models driven by machine learning, keeping you adaptable to seasonal peaks, geopolitical disruptions, or material pricing shifts.
Align customer needs with operational capacity, ensuring you make promises that you can keep, without straining resources, labour, and storage.
Slim4 optimises replenishment and supply processes throughout the logistics chain, offering real-time adaptability that allows you to easily diversify your supplier network and minimise supply risks.
Sidestep the risk of pricing shifts relative to your own net margins, with Slim4’s economic order quantity function. It calculates the ideal order size based on forecasted demand and your target service level.
Slim4’s OG function optimises order creation based on calculated order needs, lead times, and real-time supplier constraints.
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TESTIMONIALS FROM THE BUILDING MATERIALS INDUSTRY
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6.1%
Reduction in inventory
97.1%
Availability on top product lines
1.1$M
Working capital unlocked
"Within just six months of implementing Slim4, availability across our top-performing items increased from 94.6% to 97.1%."
Steven Lin
Purchasing and Inventory Planner
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Game-changer for our Supply Chain performance.
Once we had decided on which Supply Chain planning software you implement, it was a relatively straightforward implementation. We had great support from the Slimstock implementation team throughout the whole process.
Slim4 has helped us centralize our purchasing, which has led to less time spent overall when it comes to purchasing.
At the same time we have increased our service levels to customers by several percentage points while keeping our stock levels low.
Slim4 was an easy tool to learn with an intuitive interface.
The team was quite hands-on in getting the implementation done as efficiently as possible and the results were quite evident from the get-go.
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