Retail Supply Chain: Maximize Business Value From Your Planning

Combat climbing costs, increasing disruptions, and delivery inefficiencies with us. Elevate your planning to meet sustainability KPIs and delight your customers.

What our customers say about us

“Dassault Systèmes’ experience in the retail sector, software capabilities, and the expertise of its implementation partner The Logic Factory, are key elements of our transformation journey.”

— Paul Anastasiou, Senior Director

Parcel Services, Logistics Technology and Operating Models, Asda

The challenge

Every retail supply chain is unique. What is common is that it is complex, with a myriad of moving parts and external disruptions. These can range from fluctuating customer trends, increasing disruptions, and unhappy workforce experiences to inefficient distribution and last-mile-delivery logistics.

To manage such challenges, planners commonly use “one size fits all” solutions with local workarounds and spreadsheets, resulting in siloed planning, loss of visibility, and challenges in meeting sustainability goals and customers’ demands.

Our collaboration will help you integrate your supply chain from end to end, improving agility, visibility, and resilience. Let’s delve into some of your everyday hurdles and explore how you could overcome them.

  • Situation
    The absence of standards and unified KPIs fragments your supply chain, with each layer operating independently and continuously altering the preceding layer’s plan.
  • Complication
    This fragmentation allows spreadsheets and localized knowledge to thrive, yielding little alignment with other planning layers, diminishing operational efficiency, and escalating costs.
  • Question
    How do you reduce planning rework and improve efficiency?
  • Answer
    Provide your planners with clear goals and KPIs. Use metrics that are specific to your organization and make them part of your planning DNA. So all teams are aligned to the same targets.
  • Situation
    Localized silos diminish visibility across your supply chain, often leading to duplicated inventory and increased inbound-outbound complexity.
  • Complication
    Insufficient communication between silos further hampers efficiency, resulting in numerous localized supply chains.
  • Question
    How can you enhance efficiency and operate a single, integrated supply chain?
  • Answer
    Shift away from isolated solutions and information by ensuring that your planning solution is seamlessly integrated across your entire supply chain.
  • Situation
    Planning is time-consuming and constrained, leaving no room to adapt to shifting trends and future planning.
  • Complication
    Maintaining efficiency requires advance planning for supply cutovers and lead times.
  • Question
    How can you improve planning quality and forecast with confidence?
  • Answer
    Equip your planners with a virtual twin of your operation. This tool enables faster, more informed decisions, freeing time for more accurate long-term planning.
  • Situation
    Consumers demand higher service levels and product availability.
  • Complication
    Increased consumer choice leads to greater willingness to prospect, emphasizing the need for cost, convenience, and timing.
  • Question
    How do you offer a cost-efficient, agile service that meets consumer demand?
  • Answer
    Equip your planners with an integrated planning tool. This enables better decision-making by actively identifying constraints and bottlenecks, suggesting solutions, and clearly demonstrating the impact of changes and disruptions across the entire supply chain.
  • Situation
    Supply chain disruption is becoming more common, resulting in increased variability in the cost and availability of supplies and resources.
  • Complication
    Consumers are also demanding higher levels of sustainability at the same or even lower price.
  • Question
    How can you ensure that you meet customers’ conflicting demands for availability, price, and sustainability?
  • Answer
    Employ optimization with a virtual twin of your operation for balanced, consistent planning. Ensure KPI visibility for planners, with automatic updates across all metrics and plans, offering an always up-to-date view.
  • Situation
    The intricate, segmented nature of planning compounds its complexity.
  • Complication
    Plan execution, often reactive, runs parallel and isolated, creating a disconnect.
  • Question
    How can you simplify your planning process while driving improvements in efficiency and service?
  • Answer
    Take advantage of optimization and use the same virtual twin, goals, and KPIs to integrate planning and execution. Planners can see how plans are executed and operations can see how their changes impact the plan going forward.
Planning Silos
  • Situation
    The absence of standards and unified KPIs fragments your supply chain, with each layer operating independently and continuously altering the preceding layer’s plan.
  • Complication
    This fragmentation allows spreadsheets and localized knowledge to thrive, yielding little alignment with other planning layers, diminishing operational efficiency, and escalating costs.
  • Question
    How do you reduce planning rework and improve efficiency?
  • Answer
    Provide your planners with clear goals and KPIs. Use metrics that are specific to your organization and make them part of your planning DNA. So all teams are aligned to the same targets.
  • Situation
    Localized silos diminish visibility across your supply chain, often leading to duplicated inventory and increased inbound-outbound complexity.
  • Complication
    Insufficient communication between silos further hampers efficiency, resulting in numerous localized supply chains.
  • Question
    How can you enhance efficiency and operate a single, integrated supply chain?
  • Answer
    Shift away from isolated solutions and information by ensuring that your planning solution is seamlessly integrated across your entire supply chain.
  • Situation
    Planning is time-consuming and constrained, leaving no room to adapt to shifting trends and future planning.
  • Complication
    Maintaining efficiency requires advance planning for supply cutovers and lead times.
  • Question
    How can you improve planning quality and forecast with confidence?
  • Answer
    Equip your planners with a virtual twin of your operation. This tool enables faster, more informed decisions, freeing time for more accurate long-term planning.
  • Situation
    Consumers demand higher service levels and product availability.
  • Complication
    Increased consumer choice leads to greater willingness to prospect, emphasizing the need for cost, convenience, and timing.
  • Question
    How do you offer a cost-efficient, agile service that meets consumer demand?
  • Answer
    Equip your planners with an integrated planning tool. This enables better decision-making by actively identifying constraints and bottlenecks, suggesting solutions, and clearly demonstrating the impact of changes and disruptions across the entire supply chain.
  • Situation
    Supply chain disruption is becoming more common, resulting in increased variability in the cost and availability of supplies and resources.
  • Complication
    Consumers are also demanding higher levels of sustainability at the same or even lower price.
  • Question
    How can you ensure that you meet customers’ conflicting demands for availability, price, and sustainability?
  • Answer
    Employ optimization with a virtual twin of your operation for balanced, consistent planning. Ensure KPI visibility for planners, with automatic updates across all metrics and plans, offering an always up-to-date view.
  • Situation
    The intricate, segmented nature of planning compounds its complexity.
  • Complication
    Plan execution, often reactive, runs parallel and isolated, creating a disconnect.
  • Question
    How can you simplify your planning process while driving improvements in efficiency and service?
  • Answer
    Take advantage of optimization and use the same virtual twin, goals, and KPIs to integrate planning and execution. Planners can see how plans are executed and operations can see how their changes impact the plan going forward.

Optimize your retail operations against multiple KPIs while respecting all your constraints

By combining our supply chain software implementation expertise with your business knowledge, we can:

Develop a single source of truth

Plans are often reworked because each planning discipline has a different view of what makes a good plan. What you need is a great plan where all planners work to a common set of goals and KPIs.

Always have a quality plan

Planners, focusing on specific KPIs, may overlook others due to varying managerial perspectives on their importance. This inconsistency often affects plan quality. A virtual twin can resolve this by accurately calculating durations and ensuring consistent KPI weightings, allowing for the creation and validation of advanced planning optimization strategies.

Forecast confidently with what-if scenarios

Reacting to change is often costly due to a lack of forward planning. By running what-if scenarios, you can gain insights into optimal reactions to potential future challenges. For instance, your planning approach during periods of disruption should differ from your regular planning. By preparing in advance, you can preload the planning strategies.

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