Improved forecasting
Consumer goods
Strengthen resilience through improved collaboration and dynamic innovation
Slimstock helps the consumer goods sector navigate a never-ending, rapid evolution. Complete supply chain visibility and end-to-end, real-time insights ensure you adapt to new trends and omnichannel requirements, while maintaining strong levels of CRM and supplier collaboration.
Reduced waste
PROVEN IMPACT ON AVAILABILITY, INVENTORY & SERVICE LEVELS FOR SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN CONSUMER GOODS
The trusted partner for the consumer goods sector
Optimise your consumer goods supply chain from end-to-end
Slimstock ensures constant product availability despite the inherent complexity of consumer goods supply chains. Manage numerous SKUs, suppliers, channels, regions, and disruptions through clear foresight, and AI-driven agility.
- Overcome demand volatility: stay adaptable to both consumer shifts and geopolitical constraints.
- Eliminate waste: forecast, plan, and manage stock levels with precision.
- Maximise profits: manage price fluctuations and inflation with foresight and agility.
Overcome today’s consumer goods supply chain challenges
Slim4 addresses the unique demands of the consumer goods industry, ensuring you stay ahead in a market defined by high unpredictability and high expectations
Demand volatility
Challenge
Consumer demand can be unpredictable and volatile, while fulfilment agility Is also needed in the omnichannel era.
Solution
Slim4 enables you to stay agile to the fluctuations between slow-moving and fast-moving items, with dynamic planning and real-time insights.
Shelf-life constraints
Challenge
Overstocking leads to waste and obsolescence as well as premature markdowns, while understocking risks availability and brand reputation.
Solution
With more accurate forecasting, you can plan stock levels at a granular level, with multi-echelon inventory optimisation allowing for tailored allocation and balancing of stock across the network – all reducing the risk of waste.
Price fluctuations
Challenge
Price fluctuations influence not only margins for distributors, but also demand and loyalty of end consumers.
Solution
By factoring in historical data and anticipating shifts, you can plan with degrees of deviation for future fluctuations, while assessing ‘what-if’ scenarios to pivot plans instantly.
Material costs and shortages
Challenge
Material costs, compounded by energy prices, are rising faster than consumer incomes. This lowers demand while driving up operating costs.
Solution
No matter the market climate, Slim4 will always optimise profit margins. Source smarter, manage inventory more efficiently, and drive demand through assured availability and strategic pricing.
Seasonal and promotional peaks
Challenge
It’s not just trade wars, conflicts, material shortages, energy hikes, sanctions, and tariffs that create unpredictability. Consumer shifts and seasonal peaks also change the landscape.
Solution
Slim4 enables precise stock planning to prevent both excess inventory post-season, and stockouts during peak demand, no matter the market conditions.
Assortment complexity
Challenge
Large and diverse product portfolios make it challenging to prioritise high-value items while phasing out underperforming SKUs.
Solution
Slim4’s end-to-end visibility means that you can more seamlessly manage all SKUs at a granular level, leading to less cluttered warehouses, quicker stock turnover, and maximised sales opportunities for each product.
Slim4’s key features for consumer goods
Slimstock’s holistic platform provides powerful, industry-specific tools to transform supply chain planning and execution for the consumer goods industry.
Slim4 mitigates market and consumer volatility by assessing demand with these factors included. Ensure accurate demand plans no matter the operating environment.
Slim4’s OG takes strict supplier constraints into account, while adjusting orders automatically according to what’s needed, what’s possible, and what’s desired from a service level perspective.
More accurate forecasts ensure clearer and more transparent communications with retailers and specific customers. Let everyone plan from the same, single source of truth.
Slim4’s dedicated waste management feature ensures that short shelf-life products are managed optimally, and that you find the balance between over and understocking.
Working from a single source of truth, filtered insights, and real-time data ensures more seamless communication and collaboration between teams, suppliers, and retailers.
Slim4 seamlessly integrates with existing ERP systems, while expert Slimstock support from around the world keeps your operations running smoothly, always.
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TESTIMONIALS FROM THE CONSUMER GOODS INDUSTRY
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100%
Increase in revenue
24%
Increase in stock
Successful S&OP implementation
"S&OP will support our international expansion"
Antoni Marquès
Chief Operating Officer
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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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