Innovation

Vast experience across the retail, wholesale and transportation industries make us the ideal strategic partner to solve many business challenges. By simplifying the innovation management we bring to our clients long-term competitive advantages, unlock value and future-proof their business. We build trusted relationships with our customers and a systematic approach to drive continuous innovation, and believe these are the basis for sustained business value generation.

We specialise on Retail Planning Systems and Processes, including Modelling, Simulation and Supply Chain Optimisation, where we see traditional multi-solution or multi-industry vendors struggle to address modern challenges and opportunities due to Retail complexity and variations.

Improvements to Planning Systems and Processes can drive tremendous value to Retailers but often the full potential is not captured due to:

Improvements to Planning Systems and Processes can drive tremendous value to Retailers but often the full potential is not captured due to:

  • Long time to value, too much effort spent on initial design and analysis versus focusing on quick wins and then evolve from there
  • Limited adoption, systems not intuitive, too slow, too much work required to planners, etc. 
  • Planning system rigid and struggling to follow business process evolution
  • Inadequate service model of Planning Vendors and their partners leading to high application management cost or the deterioration of planning system business value
  • Merchandise Financial Planning – Align Financial, Store and Merchandise Plans
  • Assortment Planning – Create the perfect assortment for your customer
  • Buying and Initial Allocation – Adopt a Buying process that is Insightful & Efficient
  • Store Allocation and Replenishment – Maximise Availability and Sell Through
  • Forecasting and Vendor Replenishment – Anticipate demand and drive vendor replenishment
  • In-Season Management and Analytics – Quickly understand In-Season Dynamics and Proactively Respond
  • Production Capacity Planning – The ability to make faster, more efficient, more agile production strategies
  • Cost to Serve Optimisation – Unlock the true cost of operational decisions for clearer decisions
  • Demand Modelling and Forecasting – Understand how external factors influence your demand to increase forecast accuracy
  • Inventory Strategy – Achieve optimised inventory levels, even as complexity introduces more considerations
  • Supply Chain Network Strategy – Use your supply chain as a competitive weapon to deliver market and customer experience innovation
  • Product Flow-Path Optimisation – Unlocking insights into total landed cost to empower smarter operational decisions
  • Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) – Combat complexity with a playbook of contingencies ready to execute
  • Supply Chain Simulation – Predict your supply chain behaviour before decisions are implemented
  • Transportation Strategy – Decide differently with an end-to-end view of transportation and your business goal in sight