Brief Overview
With more than 255 grocery and hypermarket outlets to manage, Almacenes Exito realized it needed to address inventory management challenges with new technology that would enable centralized replenishment, more efficient processes for meeting customer demand, as well as support for the company's rapid expansion. Almacenes leveraged JDA Software's Allocation and Replenishment solutions, resulting in a 10 percent increase in inventory turnover, a 60 percent reduction in overstocks and 12 percent decrease in out-of-stocks. The retailer also benefitted from enhanced supply chain visibility and increased customer service levels with the support of JDA.
Benefits include:
• Enhanced supply chain visibility
• Centralized replenishment processes
• Better and quicker decision-making abilities through improved data
• Optimized inventory levels
• Increased customer service levels
• Reduced days of inventory
• Improved demand forecast accuracy
• Improved supplier partnerships
• Enhanced buyer and inventory manager productivity
• 10-percent increase in inventory turnover
• 60-percent reduction in overstocks
• 12-percent decrease in out-of-stocks