INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
The best inventory management platform to balance stock and service
Find the perfect balance between overstocking and understocking to release capital, eliminate risk, and maximise sales.
PROVEN IMPACT ON AVAILABILITY, INVENTORY & SERVICE LEVELS FOR +1.700 CUSTOMERS
Recognised brands using inventory management technology
PREVENT OVERSTOCKING, AVOID STOCKOUTS, AND REDUCE FIREFIGHTING
Why Slimstock?
Slimstock’s Slim4 platform ensures a consistently optimised balance of inventory and service levels, to free up capital and retain customer loyalty.
- Prevent overstocking: eliminate unnecessary storage costs, and the risk of obsolescence and waste.
- Avoid stockouts: maximise sales opportunities through reliable product availability.
- Reduce firefighting: real-time visibility and insights enable proactive decision making, not reactive.
UNLOCK CASH, LOWER COSTS, AND IMPROVE SERVICE LEVELS
Benefits to help you optimise inventory, and maximise profits
Balance stock optimally and with higher turnover
Slim4’s stock management software ensures the right products, in the right place, at the right time. Get items closer to where they’re needed, and manage them in an optimised way to ensure constant availability, and quicker turnover.
Improve product availability across channels
Understocking is a quick way to risk customer loyalty. The best inventory management software ensures the right items in the right place based on precise, localised demand.
Reduce excess and obsolescence
Overstocking drains resources and capital, while forcing you to expedite markdowns to clear inventory. Slim4 inventory management reduces excess and obsolescence to positively impact ultimate net margins.
Take control of your stock
Slim4’s inventory management software includes dynamic recalculations of stock parameters in line with real-time demand, and inclusive of all internal and external conditions.
Stay agile to volatile customer demand
Customer behaviour can change quickly to external events or more subtly in tune with the seasons. A dynamic inventory management solution ensures fast reactions and tailored strategy to plan for every eventuality.
Centralise inventory management for complete visibility
As a centralised platform, Slim4 empowers decision makers through a single source of truth by having all data in one place, and holistic visibility.
KEY FEATURES OF SLIM4 INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Advanced capabilities to manage, forecast, and order with confidence
Slim4’s stocking policy module enables implementation of multiple rules and criteria, as well as a scoring mechanism to manage where stock is located across each item’s product lifecycle.
Prioritise automatically according to your KPIs
Multidimensional ABC and XYZ analysis is conducted automatically to identify high-value and high-demand products. Sales, order line numbers, and profitability are weighed up against KPIs to inform the best prioritisation strategy for you.
Calculate stock parameters for optimal outcomes
Slim4 automatically calculates location-specific requirements based on demand volatility, future forecasts, supplier lead times and constraints, desired customer service levels, and historical performance.
Order with data-driven certainty
Optimal inventory parameters are calculated through Slim4’s inventory management tool. Based on current stock, automatic recommendations are made for outstanding and future orders – when they should be made, at what volume, and with all supplier rules and constraints factored in.
Slim4 inventory management optimises process flow by guiding you through prioritised to-do lists. Tailored to your organisation, your KPIs, and even the user persona, it’s all navigated through a clear and informative interface.
Inventory management
Tailored software for forecasting, planning, and more
Inventory optimisation
Solutions aligned to your inventory management responsibilities
Spend money wisely, make money consistently
Slim4’s dashboards and KPI analytics tools provide real-time insights into inventory performance, allowing you to make decisions that optimise stock levels, maximise sales, enhance resource efficiency, and progress with clarity.
- Release capital, reduce costs, and enhance profitability.
- Maximise sales while reducing operational costs.
- Optimise resources with real-time visibility.
Master the ‘what’, ‘where’, and ‘when’ of your supply chain
Supply chain professionals are often frustrated dealing with multiple systems to optimise order volumes, timings, and distribution. Slim4 inventory management consolidates all of those critical data sources to automatically provide optimal decisions.
- Manage thousands of SKUs with ease and logic.
- Find the perfect balance across real-time and longer-term orders.
- Balance the network with agility and precision.
Capitalise on commercial opportunities
Slim4’s purchase forecast function complements the inventory management tool, enabling you to share future requirements with suppliers to improve their strategy and adherence. Accurate forecast demands allow you to negotiate better prices, and more fit-for-purpose terms around order quantities.
- Negotiate better prices and terms based on precise projections.
- Identify poor performing suppliers.
- Give suppliers visibility and foresight with transparent data.
Best of breed
Slim4 is a best of breed platform that can take your inventory management to new levels, beyond the capability of traditional ERP systems. However, this isn’t to say the solution can’t integrate with those existing ERP solutions. Evolve your architecture, without adding any extra burden thanks to our proactive Help Desk support.
- Unlock new digital capability.
- Integrate seamlessly with hundreds of ERP systems.
- Reduce maintenance while enhancing performance.
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Working capital improvement
Reduction in stock write-off
Improved cash flow
"The impact of Slim4 on our business has been immeasurable and surpassed our expectations."
Louise Lyle
Director of Supply Chain
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Frequently asked questions
What is inventory management software?
Inventory management software helps businesses balance stock and service levels. It prevents overstocking, which ties up capital and increases storage costs, and understocking, which leads to lost sales and poor customer experience. It supports better decisions, reduces manual work and provides visibility of inventory performance.
What should be considered when purchasing inventory management software?
When choosing inventory management software, businesses should think about:
- Whether it can help avoid overstocking and understocking.
- How well it automates routine planning and ordering tasks.
- Its ability to handle large assortments and multiple locations.
- Whether it provides clear insights and KPIs for better decision-making.
- How easily it integrates with the existing ERP system.
- The level of support offered once the solution is implemented.
What does Slimstock Inventory management software do?
Slim4 helps businesses keep the right stock in the right place by:
- Automatically calculating optimal stock levels for each location.
- Managing stocking policies based on product life cycle stages.
- Prioritising products through ABC/XYZ analysis.
- Recommending purchase orders using forecasts, supply constraints and current stock.
- Highlighting where stock should be rebalanced across the network.
- Providing real-time dashboards and KPIs for better decision-making.
Does Slimstock’s inventory management software replace an ERP system, or does it integrate with existing ERPs?
Slimstock’s inventory management software does not replace an ERP. It works alongside it as a best-of-breed supply chain planning tool. It integrates with hundreds of ERP systems and is designed to connect smoothly using different integration methods. Slimstock also provides full support once the system is live.
What industries does Slimstock’s inventory management software support?
Slim4 supports almost every industry, as effective inventory management is relevant to any business holding stock. It is widely used across Slimstock’s customer base.
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