Optimised purchasing
Multimetal
Insights to unlock optimised purchasing decisions
Slimstock helps companies across multimetal and technical sectors to optimise the lifecycle of all materials, enabling businesses to plan with a broad horizon.
Long-term inventory planning
PROVEN IMPACT ON AVAILABILITY, INVENTORY & SERVICE LEVELS FOR SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN MULTIMETALS
The trusted partner for the multimetal sector
Optimise your multimetal supply chain from end-to-end
Slimstock helps clients to enhance procurement in a typically purchase-driven environment. With long lead times, and stock treated more as a long-term asset, optimising sourcing and inventory is critical for overall efficiency and profitability.
- Improve service levels: maximise availability and sales despite long lead times.
- Data-driven forecasting: know what’s needed ahead of time, to optimise sourcing and inventory.
- Enhance operational efficiency: reduce waste and avoid stockouts with clearer insights and smarter decisions.
Overcome today’s multimetal supply chain challenges
Slim4 addresses the unique demands of the multimetal industry, ensuring you stay ahead in a market where stock is an asset, not just an item to shift as soon as possible.
Long lead times
Challenge
The most common challenge for multimetal operators is long lead times which directly impact inventory and service levels.
Solution
Slim4 scales seamlessly with different lead time requirements and characteristics, helping to form short and long planning horizons that are fit for purpose, and agile to the unforeseen.
Supply chain disruptions
Challenge
Due to long lead times, it becomes more difficult to respond quickly to market changes and global supply disruptions.
Solution
Slimstock’s platform is able to forecast demand over long horizons, inclusive of potential disruptions or market shifts. Clear, end-to-end visibility allows for quick pivots and optimised decision-making.
Fluctuating costs
Challenge
Cost management in an environment of volatile shipping prices is especially difficult, often leading to misjudged investments and damaged profit margins.
Solution
Slim4 anticipates potential shifts while also analysing historical patterns to give you the most accurate forecast, and to inform investment decisions that ensure availability without damaging profits.
New regulations
Challenge
New legislation such as the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism are not uncommon, changing the supply landscape quickly.
Solution
No matter how new or unexpected regulations are, Slim4’s AI engine pivots quicker than any manual process could, instructing a new optimal way to proceed.
Inventory levels
Challenge
Many decisions are still made using spreadsheets, leading to slow, error-prone processes without advanced insights.
Solution
Slim4 helps to anticipate and respond to real-time and future conditions more proactively, improving control over inventory levels and service performance.
Purchase contracts
Challenge
With legacy solutions and spreadsheets, the ability to report, monitor, share and collaborate across the supply chain is reduced drastically.
Solution
Slim4’s dedicated purchase modules enable you to handle the complexity of purchase contracts and special price agreements over long periods.
Slim4’s key features for multimetal
Slimstock’s holistic platform provides powerful, industry-specific tools to transform multimetal supply chain planning and execution.
Slim4’s purchase order optimisation module provides visual indicators that guide long-term ordering decisions based on price, volume, and lead times.
Purchase contract and special price agreement management
Purchase contract management and special price agreement tracking are facilitated within Slim4, to maximise ultimate profits and to enhance supplier relationships.
For multimetal companies to manage long lead times, complex orders, and different supplier agreements, prioritisation is key, and enabled through Slim4’s ABC classification module.
Multimetal companies experience greater efficiency in purchasing and inventory management, improved service levels, better working capital utilisation, and enhanced decisions, thanks to complete, end-to-end visibility through Slim4.
Slim4 provides end-to-end insight and scenario planning capabilities to make better, data-driven decisions, across all time horizons.
While inventory reduction isn’t always the goal in the multimetal sector, it’s still important to manage stock allocation, balancing, and turnover effectively. Slim4 optimises the entire process.
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Testimonials from the multimetal industry
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10%
inventory reduction across 40 branches
4%
availability improvement
Automated planning process
"With Slim4, we boosted our availability by over 4% while reducing inventory by more than 10%."
Victor Aguayo
Supply Chain and Logistics Manager
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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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