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Wholesale
Make the journey from manufacture to customer, simple
Slimstock’s Slim4 platform thrives with complexity and volume, making it a perfect solution for wholesale supply chains. Its differentiation comes from being an end-to-end, holistic platform optimising everything between production and the end customer.
PROVEN IMPACT ON AVAILABILITY, INVENTORY & SERVICE LEVELS FOR SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN WHOLESALE
The trusted partner for the wholesale sector
Optimise your wholesale supply chain from end-to-end
Slimstock, from day one, has been a proud facilitator of wholesale supply chains, serving as the perfect facilitator between manufacturer, retailer, and customer.
- Optimal service levels: ensure availability without overstocking.
- Advanced forecasting: anticipate demand and market shifts automatically.
- Elite budget management: optimise sales & operations planning (S&OP) levels.
Overcome today’s wholesale supply chain challenges
Slim4 addresses the unique demands of the wholesale industry, helping you to manage vast SKU levels and a broad supply network with ease and precision
Market competition
Challenge
Wholesale is a highly competitive environment with all players clamouring to be the chosen facilitator between production and the end customer.
Solution
You will ultimately be chosen for your ability to ensure availability, clear communication, and kept promises. Slim4 assures all of the above.
Product availability
Challenge
A key metric for any wholesale customer is constant availability, as this ultimately determines their reputation with the end customer.
Solution
Accurate demand forecasts and plans ensure continuous availability without the risk of overstocking and eating into profit margins.
Inventory efficiency
Challenge
With such vast stock levels, keeping inventory as efficient as it can be is a constant challenge.
Solution
Across channels and locations, Slim4 automatically optimises stock levels, balances the network, and prioritises based on both demand and value to the business.
Changing supply landscapes
Challenge
Wholesale is epitomised by a continuously changing landscape. New locations, import constraints, export challenges, labour shortages, and much more.
Solution
Agility is key, and is ensured by a platform that not only works from historical data, but also the real-time situation, and future anticipated market shifts.
Team transparency
Challenge
Planning in a wholesale context is difficult with legacy systems and fragmented data, leading to inefficiencies and suboptimal decisions.
Solution
Slim4 provides complete end-to-end visibility through one platform, leading to transparent, collaborative, optimal decisions.
Assortment
Challenge
Knowing what stock to locate, where, and when, is big challenge for wholesalers. With such a large SKU count, it’s impossible to prioritise optimally through manual decisions.
Solution
ABC/XYZ analysis prioritises items that drive more sales, have higher turnover, or yield higher margins, so you’re segmenting and classifying stock smartly.
Slim4’s key features for wholesale
Slimstock’s holistic platform provides powerful, industry-specific tools to transform wholesale supply chain planning and execution.
Slim4 optimises assortment per warehouse and per store. ABC/XYZ analysis focuses on the most important items, so you capitalise on high turnover, more sales, and improved margins.
Ensure availability without overstocking. Be the one to show you can pivot to each customer’s specific requirements by always optimising stock levels and inventory performance.
Slim4 optimises replenishment and supply processes across the logistics chain, with automated purchase decisions ultimately contributing to near-perfect availability rates.
Advanced forecasting models are tailored to different demand patterns, allowing for more accurate predictions that factor in potential disruptions, your own capacity, and varying lead times.
Slim4’s S&OP module unlocks greater collaboration and visibility across the business. Working from one, single source of truth leads to more aligned understanding and communication.
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.
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20%
working capital improving
20%
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Improved operational agility
"By leveraging Slimstock’s advanced planning capabilities to automate supply chain workflows, our people have more time to focus on value-added activity."
Rob Sparling
Supply Chain Manager | Lyco
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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.
