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Supply planning software
Manage, link, and share planning data across the extended supply chain
Optimise stock levels without risking customer availability and loyalty, through intelligent, data-driven supply planning.
PROVEN IMPACT ON AVAILABILITY, INVENTORY & SERVICE LEVELS FOR +1,500 CUSTOMERS
The trusted partner in supply planning excellence
MAKE SUPPLY PLANNING A CUSTOMER-CENTRIC FUNCTION
Why Slimstock?
Slim4 enables a service level-driven supply planning function, with all benefits and features targeted towards your ultimate goal of keeping customers satisfied and spending.
- Let demand drive supply: Slim4 integrates supply and demand planning so any sudden market shifts are automatically reflected in your supply strategy.
- Manage by exception: Slim4 highlights overstocked or understocked items, allowing you to adjust in real-time.
- Adjust to your own network capacity: automatically adjust orders based on real-time supplier constraints, without harming customer availability
ALIGN PURCHASING WITH REAL-TIME DEMAND FOR SMARTER DECISIONS EVERY DAY
Benefits to help you integrate, automate, and mitigate
Integrate supply and demand planning
Slim4 ensures that demand changes automatically adjust your supply plan, creating a data-driven, responsive supply chain that’s always aligned with the latest demand data.
Automate the manual
Automate order creation and adjust to supplier constraints to significantly reduce manual effort, and also manual errors. Slim4 thrives in multi-echelon environments, making inventory balancing scalable as well as precise.
Manage by exception
Slim4 allows users to proactively address issues and to avoid negative impacts on KPIs, ensuring smoother operations, better decision-making, and a more tailored supply strategy across all products.
Reduce overstocks and stockouts
If supply and demand data are dovetailing smoothly, then there’s no reason not to expect accurate stock levels at every location. No more overstocking draining resources, or stockouts harming customer loyalty.
Simplify procurement while saving money
By automating supply demand, procurement becomes a data-driven optimisation exercise. One that not only simplifies the process, but boosts net margins through improved inventory management and sales performance.
Balance stock across the entire network, always
Slim4 enables a more efficient process of balancing stock across your entire network, secured by its ability to adjust to market shifts and supply disruptions in real-time.
KEY FEATURES OF SLIM4 SUPPLY PLANNING PLATFORM
From automated order proposals to dynamic safety stock calculations
Slim4 provides order advice calculations to determine optimal order quantities per product, factoring in minimum order quantities, lead times, and supplier conditions.
Advanced purchase order planning
Plan and place orders for each location based on their specific needs, while also grouping and shipping products to minimise costs and boost efficiencies.
Prioritise orders based on real-time trends
Automatically fill orders according to known, real-time supplier constraints, while prioritising items that are needed more urgently.
Thrive in a multi-echelon environment
Determine where inventory should be placed and how to manage overstock situations, by balancing the network effectively from the point of supply.
Build supplier profiles into the system
Slim4 enables you to better manage disruptions in the supply chain by setting up profiles with specific rules and closure types, so goods are ordered and shipped to cater for that dynamic.
Set your own rules and limitations
Allocation templates allow for the setup of rules and limitations when making purchase orders, ensuring efficient distribution based on configured, tailored instructions.
Optimise promotions in every location
Commercially distribute forecasts across all locations, taking into account the specific rules, demands, and trends of each store.
Solutions aligned to your supply planning responsibilities
Release capital through smarter decisions
Slim4’s automated approach to supply planning removes human input and error from a process that has the potential to limit stockouts, enhance customer satisfaction, improve sales performance, and grow your business.
- Optimise labour resources by relying on automation and data.
- Shift inventory from storage to customer baskets.
- Scale operations with a clear, integrated view of future demand.
Unify data to optimise supply chain planning
By using demand-driven order advice, Slim4 reduces unnecessary purchases, prevents order delays, and manages the full multi-echelon landscape, to optimise value across the whole process.
- Ensure the right level of stock, in the right place, at the right time.
- Reduce manual effort to streamline and expedite wider operations.
- Eliminate scattered data for a clearer view of your supply chain.
Mitigate disruptions with agility
A common pain point for purchasers is having to respond to supplier constraints with manual adjustments. Slim4 automatically integrates those constraints, allowing you to manage balance holding, disruptions, closures, stock level adjustments, and consolidations with ease.
- Embed supplier constraints into the standardised purchasing process.
- Anticipate constraints and flex orders up or down proactively.
- Eliminate guesswork in favour of automated, precise purchasing.
Managing and monitoring progress in a simple way
Slim4’s intuitive interface and user-friendly dashboards are an initial gateway to saved expenditure, seamless integration, and reduced downtime. Moreover, the supply planning solution is designed to scale with your business, with multi-echelon planning built for evolving needs, and expanding footprints.
- Scale your supply planning seamlessly alongside your business growth.
- Reduce downtime and enjoy smooth data flows.
- Streamline the user experience.
TESTIMONIALS OF OUR SUPPLY PLANNING SOFTWARE
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30%
Reduction in inventory
10M
AUD freed in working capital
4%
25% to 4% reduction in lost sales
“Slim4 has become an essential tool that is part of our core business"
Manish Narayanan
Director S&OP
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Frequently asked questions
What is supply planning software?
Supply planning software helps keep supply and demand aligned by creating a responsive and data-driven supply chain. It ensures that changes in demand automatically adjust the supply plan and supports a service-level-driven approach to inventory.
What are the differences between supply planning & supply chain planning?
Supply chain planning covers a wider scope, including assortment, production, promotions, collaboration and budget control. Supply planning focuses more specifically on ensuring the right stock is available at the right time, managing supplier constraints, balancing inventories across locations and automating order creation.
What is Slimstock’s supply planning software used for?
Slim4 is used to automate manual processes such as order creation, adjust orders to supplier constraints and manage multi-echelon environments. It highlights overstocked or understocked items, recalculates supply plans when demand changes and keeps inventory aligned with service-level goals.
What are the most common challenges supply planning software helps to solve?
It helps solve issues such as:
- Demand and supply misalignment.
- Time-consuming and error-prone manual planning.
- Frequent stockouts or excess stock.
- Scattered data across systems.
- Supplier constraints, closures, and order limitations.
What are the benefits of implementing supply planning software?
Key benefits include reducing overstocks and stockouts, lowering procurement complexity and costs, improving stock balancing across the network and making it easier to manage supplier disruptions or closures.
How does Slimstock integrate supply planning with ERP and other enterprise systems?
Slim4 works from a single source of truth integrated with the ERP. All supply chain data flows into Slim4, removing outdated or scattered information and supporting reliable planning across locations.