Buy. Hold. Sell. These three words sum up a wholesale distributor’s work. But complex demand patterns and novel ways to shop, return and receive goods complicate inventory and replenishment decisions. While it’s impossible to know the future, it is possible to repeat the buy, hold, sell cycle with consistent profitability while maximizing service levels and improving perfect orders. Reduce safety stock levels through better real-time demand visibility and inventory management.
The Atlas Planning Platform helps distributors balance demand and supply by leveraging data on day-to-day realities like variable lead times, seasonality, erratic regional demand, changes in replenishment schedules, and market activity. With this data at their fingertips, distributors make smart and strategic buy, hold, sell decisions that pave the way to profitability.
The explosion of ways to support customer purchases and returns, such as on-premise shopping, click and collect at store, locker pickup, and e-commerce deliveries to homes and other locations builds complexity into inventory management and replenishment. Atlas guides distributor moves with certainty by giving deeper insight into the complex demand and replenishment world while balancing service objectives.
Omnichannel distribution lets customers complete purchases and receive orders from many sales channels. Customers can buy online and return in store, buy online and pick up at the store, or even have goods delivered to their business or home. Distributors must provide a seamless customer experience through every distribution channel. Atlas assesses market demand and current inventory levels to optimize inventory while maximizing service levels.
Automating the purchase order (PO) process builds supplier relationships, streamlines communications, and minimizes financial risk. Atlas Planning Platform supports different PO optimization strategies based on user-defined rules and constraints such as the option to buy, tiered pricing, and supplier contract agreements.
The wrong move in wholesale distribution leads to unhappy customers and lost profits. Distributors require visibility across all levels and systems to keep a constant eye on source and supply. Atlas Planning Platform offers end-to-end synchronization from the consumer to the extended value chain to develop a transparent and quick responding system that keeps goods flowing without interruption.
There’s no time for complex planning tools that are difficult to learn and even harder to use. The Atlas Planning Platform offers the latest in supply chain planning technology but is designed with distributors in mind.
Distributors must harness the power of omnichannel to succeed. But the complexity of warehouse distribution increases as the ways to support customer purchases and returns explode. Atlas’ easy-to-use platform gives insights into current inventory levels, predicts future demand, and applies advanced analytics to identify trends, patterns, and probabilities to better manage inventory. Leverage prescriptive analytics to automate and optimize replenishment, manage dynamic demand and purchase activity, and plan inventory policies.
Competitors promote machine learning capabilities as a nice-to-have. John Galt sees machine learning and AI as essential and incorporates it into everything we do. The Atlas Planning Platform integrates a range of data signals—from weather and POS data to commodity prices and more—into every scenario. By analyzing data and running real-time scenarios, our platform provides inventory insights to develop plans that automate and optimize replenishment.
The Atlas Planning Platform takes the guesswork away. Our platform detects demand and supply shifts to manage inventories and uncover sales opportunities by linking and integrating to data signals that impact distribution.
Distribution companies must balance demand and supply. Keeping inventory stocked when and where customers need it requires constant insight into inventory data. Seeing inventory levels in real time helps all stakeholders anticipate, speed, and process orders. But even in the best worlds, opinions clash and complicate decision making.
Atlas helps distributors and other stakeholders balance demand and supply by incorporating day-to-day realities like variable lead times, seasonality, erratic regional demand, changes in replenishment schedules, and market activity into the data. This helps internal and external stakeholders collaborate. The user-friendly online platform merges feedback from stakeholders to break down knowledge silos and bring end-to-end visibility to distribution channels.
We get it—manual repetitive processes waste valuable time when your company has more pressing concerns to worry about. Atlas automates inventory planning and replenishment and repetitive tasks to keep your focus on value-added activities.
Atlas automates forecasting while applying advanced analytics to derive trends, patterns, and probabilities in inventory levels. This information helps distributors manage slow-moving and fast-moving inventory and intermittent demand. Our single platform solution automates and optimizes replenishment, manages dynamic demand and purchase activity, and aids in inventory policy planning to reduce warehousing costs and stock-outs.
Omnichannel distribution lets customers complete purchases and receive orders from many sales channels. Customers can buy online and return in store, buy online and pick up at the store, or even have goods delivered to their business or home. Distributors must provide a seamless customer experience through every distribution channel. Atlas assesses market demand and current inventory levels to optimize inventory while maximizing service levels.