Understanding the intricacies of a retailer's internal replenishment system is a key competitive advantage for many leading consumer goods companies. There are countless flags and triggers in their system that can be turned off or set incorrectly which can cause your products to be out of stock (OOS) or overstocked risking markdowns or returns. Key performance indicators (KPI) can also be leveraged to help you proactively detect when there may be a potential lost sale on the horizon.

To quickly identify the root causes of OOS or low selling situations, Velocity users employ a comprehensive and proactive technique for examining all appropriate measures at the store and item level. Using Velocity's data mining capabilities, root causes are easily identified and tagged with appropriate threshold values, then closely monitored through exception reports. Velocity uses your business rules to analyze your daily data to identify and predict replenishment issues like OOS, excesses, store-level anomalies and incorrect replenishment settings. By proactively managing these trigger points, Velocity users experience lower OOS rates and higher sales.

Velocity helps identify situations in which excess inventory can be eliminated without dissatisfying the consumer.

• Increase Turns and Sell-Thru %
• Eliminate Out-of-Stocks and Lost Sales
• Improve On-shelf Availability and Increase Sales
• Reduce Markdowns, Returns and Out-of-Dates
• Generate Wins at Promotions and New Product Rollouts
• Build Stronger Relationships with Retailers
• Become the "Go-to" Answer Source for Buyers and Replenishers

• Low Turns Exceptions
• Low Weeks of Supply Exceptions
• Ladder Plans
• Zero or Low Sales Exceptions
• Store Count Tracking
• Planogrammed but Not Replenishing (Traited/Not Valid)
• Reorder Point Analysis
• Store Specific Order (SSO) Recommendations
• Deseasonalized Demand (DD) Analysis
• Safety Stock Setting Review
• Frozen Deseasonalized Demand (DD)
• DC to Store Inventory Supply Analysis
• Low Sell-through
• Lost Sales Opportunities
• Actual to Forecast Tracking