Our Capacity Planning System is designed to manage cross business programmes and projects and their impacts on the retail store network.

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Benefits

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• Balance store workloads so that central projects don't conflict with seasonal and promotional peaks in work levels

• Understand the true staff cost of central projects and programmes that impact store staff

• Free your store staff from unnecessary down time, allowing them to spend more time serving customers

• Avoid spending money on projects that don't demonstrate a real return on investment

• Easily manage the complexity of hundreds of major projects affecting tens of thousands of staff members across thousands of store

• Allow a fully controlled store impact planning process where this was previously not possible

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Features

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• Automatically load business as usual store staff hours from existing workforce planning systems

• Automatically load planned merchandising hours by store or store type

• Automatically load store data and store staff profiles

• Automatically load complex project data

• Automatic calculation of store staff impacts at all times

• Maintain latest position on projects and store impacts as their timescales change

• Built in range of standard and customisable reports, charts and graphs to answer all your information needs

• Built in extracts to facilitate further analysis in other external systems or in standard Excel format for ease of use.

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Technology

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• The Capacity Planning System is built using the latest cloud technologies and has no significant impact on your internal IT resources

• Standard, industrial strength Microsoft development environment that enables the solution to be scaled as much as you need.

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Our Supply Chain Planning System is designed to plan complex logistics networks from suppliers and production locations through ports, warehouses and fulfilment centres to customers.

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Benefits

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• Quantify the total cost of operating your logistics network​

• Plan, cost and compare alternative future changes to the logistics network

• Identify the least cost means of adapting your logistics network to accommodate changes in business volumes and regional focus

• Test the feasibility of cost of network change using a digital twin of the entire supply chain

• Provide a business case to support strategic business changes

• Measure and improve delivered customer service

• Reduce logistics network costs of operation for a given level of business

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Features

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• Display current and future logistics network nodes and links on a global map​

• Zoom from global level into a plan view of a site showing all the detail of buildings, access roads and storage locations

• Create scenarios to represent alternative ways of representing the network to accommodate planned business changes

• Plan business demand into the future

• Create planning events to represent major events outside normal planned business activity or to adjust unusual historical patterns e.g. Covid 19

• Model transport routes, modes (road, rail, sea, air), services and rates connecting the international and national nodes in your network

• Develop cost models for key logistics nodes such as production sites and distribution centres

• Apply a variety of alternative inventory deployment models to maximise customer service within available network capacity 

• Flexibly report on logistics scenarios compared with full volume and cost breakdowns

• Export to Excel at the click of a button

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Technology

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• The Supply Chain Planning System is built using the latest cloud technologies and has no significant impact on your internal IT resources

• Standard, industrial strength Microsoft development environment that enables the solution to be scaled as much as you need.

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