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MULTI-ECHELON INVENTORY OPTIMISATION SOFTWARE
Simplify MEIO inventory planning, reduce costs, and improve service levels
Manage inventory effectively across your entire supply chain network, through one centralised platform.
PROVEN IMPACT ON AVAILABILITY, INVENTORY & SERVICE LEVELS FOR +1.500 CUSTOMERS
The trusted partner in multi-echelon inventory optimisation excellence
MEIO SOFTWARE THAT ENABLES HOLISTIC OPTIMISATION
Why Slimstock?
Optimise management of inventory across the entire, multi-echelon network. Too often, different nodes are addressed in isolation, but Slimstock’s MEIO solution champions interdependency.
- Connect the entire supply network: strategise from a full picture of information to ensure optimal trade-offs and decisions.
- Better balance supply and demand: pool total resources and reduce costs to balance supply and demand effectively.
- Expand your echelon horizon: don’t just impact the echelon above or below, but consider cumulative impacts across the full supply chain.
OPTIMISE INVENTORY LEVELS AND REDUCE COSTS
Benefits to help you increase visibility while cutting expenditure
Stock in the right place at the right time
Optimising the location of inventory means knowing where to best place all stock at any time. Slimstock’s MEIO software balances inventory levels across the network to create better efficiencies, and to secure availability to customers.
Connect systems for full visibility
Disconnected systems and siloed data make it impossible to predict demand and therefore to optimise inventory. MEIO’s comprehensive view and seamless usability leads to easier, quicker, more accurate decisions.
Minimise stockouts
Regular stockouts are a sure way to lose customers and revenue, while also ramping up shipping expenditures. Optimising stock levels positively impacts profits in real-time, and future sales long after.
Reduce safety stock levels
Trying to prevent stockouts can also be costly, if you’re holding excessive safety stock across multiple echelons. MEIO minimises those costs through more strategic, data- driven orders and placements.
Visualise and capitalise on interdependencies
Slimstock’s MEIO solution captures the dynamic interplay of different echelons and how they impact each other, and indeed the business as a holistic consideration.
Rely on real-time data for improved forecast accuracy
MEIO incorporates advanced algorithms and real-time data to improve forecasting accuracy far beyond the capabilities of traditional methods.
KEY FEATURES OF SLIMSTOCK’S MULTI-ECHELON INVENTORY OPTIMISATION (MEIO) SOLUTION
Converting complexity from a challenge into an opportunity
You can’t master one node – a hub, a warehouse, a store – unless you have a clear, real-time picture of the entire network. Slimstock’s MEIO solution provides that visibility through a single platform.
Pool resources for cost optimisation
Bringing together resources and allocation allows you to prioritise downstream locations for the lowest possible cost.
Complete agility provided by MEIO also allows for stock to be seamlessly returned upstream as part of network cleanup operations, helping to reduce resource costs associated with inventory management.
Make stock movement a tactical advantage
Not only can flexible stock movement downstream and upstream help to optimise inventory levels, but the same flexibility ensures ideal placement of stock across different locations, to ensure customer satisfaction.
Become a master of your own complexity
The more stores, locations, hubs and spokes of your network you have, the more Slimstock’s MEIO software helps to identify optimal inventory decisions. Extra complexity simply means more opportunities to extract maximum value.
Solutions aligned to your multi-echelon inventory optimisation responsibilities
Fewer risks, more rewards
Optimised inventory management, especially across multiple nodes and vast networks, can become a badge of honour – a sign of constant availability, adaptability to market shifts, and enhanced sustainability credentials.
- Reduce inventory costs while improving service levels for improved net margins.
- Mitigate mutli-echelon risk through greater control and agility.
- Minimise stockouts to ensure customer satisfaction.
Work from a full picture of information
Slimstock’s MEIO solution allows you to analyse the supply chain as a completely connected and integrated function, rather than in independent silos. If you know how every echelon decision impacts the full network, every one of those decisions will become the right one.
- Analyse the supply chain as a holistic function rather than in isolated silos.
- Maximise the value of stock at all times.
- Get the most out of your supplier relationships.
Capitalise on complete cross-channel visibility
By having a holistic view, you can guarantee availability while also reducing associated costs of buying new stock. Knowing what you need, and where, helps to avoid making new orders from suppliers, or paying for resources to manage excessive stock.
- Avoid unnecessary supply orders by knowing what’s needed, where, in real-time.
- Utilise stock already in the network to realise maximum value.
- Reassess transport management costs according to what’s needed.
TESTIMONIALS OF OUR MULTI-ECHELON INVENTORY OPTIMISATION SOFTWARE
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98%
On-shelf availability increased to 98%
15%
Stock turn increase
Improved visibility
"Thanks to Slim4, our stock turn has increased by 15%"
Justin Ashton
Supply Chain Manager
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Frequently asked questions
What is multi echelon inventory optimisation (MEIO) software?
MEIO software helps businesses manage inventory across the entire supply chain network, not just at individual locations. It looks at how different echelons influence each other, balances stock across the network and reduces overall costs by treating the supply chain as an integrated system rather than isolated parts.
What does Slimstock’s multi echelon inventory optimisation (MEIO) software do?
Slimstock’s MEIO software:
- Balances inventory to prevent excess stock in some locations and shortages in others.
- Provides visibility across the whole supply chain for better forecasting and planning.
- Optimises safety stock placement to reduce costs.
- Uses advanced algorithms and real-time data to improve demand accuracy.
- Supports stock sharing, stock pooling and stock transfers across the network.
What makes Slimstock’s MEIO software different from other solutions on the market?
Slimstock’s Multi-Echelon solution stands out because it offers full visibility of stock across the network and enables businesses to pool resources, allocate stock to priority locations, transfer stock between sites and send stock upstream when needed. This provides a practical and cost-effective way to manage supply chain interdependencies.
Which industries benefit most from MEIO software?
MEIO is most beneficial for businesses with multiple interconnected locations. This includes networks such as hub-and-spoke operations, retailers with many stores or any organisation managing stock across several echelons.
Does Slim4 MEIO software replace an ERP system, or does it integrate with existing ERPs?
Slim4’s multi-echelon solution does not replace an ERP. Instead, it works alongside existing systems as an advanced optimisation layer. It complements the ERP by providing capabilities that typical ERPs do not offer, especially when managing inventory across multiple echelons.