Invent Analytics’ Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP) solution empowers retailers to allocate resources effectively, maximizing profitability while optimizing inventory management. Our AI-powered solution enables retailers to align financial goals with customer demands, ensuring operational efficiency, reduced excess inventory, and enhanced customer satisfaction, all while managing a competitive edge.

The new retail landscape isn’t static; your markdowns shouldn’t be either. Winning in the competitive omni-channel retail era requires you to excel at pricing strategies and create a path to potential margin growth. That means using more effective, optimally timed markdowns for each product that differentiates between regions, climates and stores.

An advanced allocation optimization solution means much more than meeting customer demand at a store or regional level.  Solution-based service-level frameworks to manage store inventories cannot capture the omni-channel complexity successfully.  Initial and in-season allocation decisions should position inventory optimally anticipating offline sales and omni-channel customers’ fulfillment needs – to be close to the omni-channel customers without carrying excessive inventory.

From where should a retailer fulfill omni-channel customer orders, given different inventory levels at stores, hub stores, and DCs? 

The lowest fulfillment cost option is possible, but it may hurt availability for future orders in that store/demand area. The highest inventory location may be an option, but the fulfillment cost might be too high. DC is usually the cheapest option, but then it runs out of inventory for replenishment too quickly. 

Omni-AI is an intelligent supply chain solution suite which orchestrates a retailer’s entire supply chain by unifying network planning, inventory and price optimization, and fulfillment in one framework.