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2 Secrets to Manage Slow Demand Products that Make You Money

Slow Demand products comprise 35-40% of most retailer assortments and cannot be eliminated. To profitably sail the Slow Demand Product seas, you must be equipped with a proper forecasting engine. You have taken an essential step in your destination to increase demand forecasting accuracy by providing a forecasting engine that utilizes the correct algorithm for slow-demand products.

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Forecasting for Slow and Intermittent Products – the Fiction

Is Your Demand Forecasting Solution Actually Leading to Profits?

All retailers face the fact that demand forecasting products that move slowly and products that move intermittently during the year is required to grow profits. In fact, 35-40% of most retailer assortments consist of slow and intermittent products. While this may be well known, it is less known that demand forecasting and how the supply chain software uses the demand forecast are the keys to meeting your turn goals and maximizing your GMROI.
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Demand Forecasting Slow Moving Products – 7 Dos and Don’ts

Wonder What Happens Next in this Slow Moving Scene?

I call them “heartbeat” products. Every Retailer and Manufacturer has them. The slow or niche products that don’t sell every day but are still vital to your business. If you charted their sales history, it would look like a heart monitor, up one week, down the next, up and down, up and down. No gentle seasonal curves here, just jagged peaks and deep valleys. You never know week to week if you are going to sell none or a hundred. Often expensive, well-managed heartbeat products can be valuable sales drivers. Poorly managed heartbeat products can eat up your profits and burn holes in your open to buy. So how do you maximize sales and lower your inventory on these slow movers?

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Slow Demand Inventory Mistakes Even Smart People Make

Is Managing Slow Demand this Painful for You?

Slow and Intermittent traffic is bad, worse is a snowstorm shutting down the highway leaving you stranded in your car for 10 hours. There is nothing worse than slow or dead stopped traffic in a snowstorm right? Maybe, while we sit in traffic, we should consider the slow demand products in your assortment. Do your slow demand products need to be in your assortment? In reality, that’s the wrong question to ask, over 35% of your assortment has slow demand patterns. If you factor in the intermittent demand products, you are now reviewing over 60% of your products, a significant part of your inventory assortment and image to the customer.
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LeadTime and Seasonality: Top 5 Replenishment Blogs of Summer

Hottest Summer Topics of 2013: LeadTime and Seasonality

LeadTime, Lead Time Forecasting and Seasonality /Market Trends are the top interest blogs (stories) from Summer 2013. Based on the number of blog viewers and average time each viewer spent on each page, the following five blogs are 3-1 favorites from Summer 2013. These blogs indicate the key areas that companies want to improve going into the key fall sales season in 2013.

 

LeadTime and Lead Time Forecasting Do’s and Don’ts

LeadTime and Lead Time Forecasting (LT) are critical in the supply chain today. Tracking lead time variance and vendor fill rates may make a nice report; but reports don’t help you manage product service levels. We have customers who grew their gross margin over a million dollars from implementing our Lead Time Forecasting module; the ROI from effective Lead Time Forecasting is huge. While knowing when lead times change is important, most of you agree that how you use your lead time variance and fill rate (you are tracking lead time variance and fill rates right?) to improve your product/location service attained is the real goal in your supply chain
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Do You Make These Mistakes with Slow Demand Products?

Slow demand products make up 35-40% of most retailer assortments. These products often are critical to the assortment because a top 20% product is often paired with a selection from an assortment of slow demand product choices. This large group of products in your assortment can ruin your turn goals and your GMROI when managed incorrectly. There are two key pieces that must work together for a retailer to win with slow movers: the demand forecast and how the supply chain software uses the demand forecast to manage the inventory. The results of poor buying are low turns and loss of capital for other product.

Slow Demand Product Forecasting Myths

“How do you forecast slow demand products?” The same question was posed to me in three different meetings at NRF this year. Many software companies differentiate their demand forecast capability from their competition by highlighting their skill in forecasting slow product demand; at the same time, they strike fear into the hearts of retailers by highlighting retail losses delivered due to poor demand forecasting of slow moving products. The key to this discussion is to not get trapped into a no win conclusion. More than a great Demand Forecast is needed to attain winning results with these product groups. Like the story of the ‘Tortoise and the Hare’, Slow demand products are part of any assortment and can be big winners.

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Slow and Intermittent Product Demand Forecasting Facts & Myths

Slow and Intermittent products comprise 35-40% of most retailer assortments.  These products are often critical to the assortment because a top 20% product is frequently paired with a selection from an assortment of slow-demand product choices.  When managed incorrectly, this large group of products in your assortment can ruin your turn goals and your GMROI..  Two key pieces must work together for a retailer to win with slow movers: the demand forecast and how the supply chain software uses the demand forecast to manage the inventory. Further, the results of poor buying are low turns and loss of capital for other product.

Slow and Intermittent Product Demand Forecasting Myths

“How do you forecast slow and intermittent demand products?”  I received the same question in three different meetings at NRF this year.  Many software companies differentiate their demand forecast capability from their competition by highlighting their skill in forecasting slow and intermittent product demand; simultaneously, they strike fear into the hearts of retailers by highlighting retail losses delivered due to poor demand forecasting of slow-moving products.  The key to this discussion is to not get trapped into a no-win conclusion. However, it takes More than a great Demand Forecast to attain winning results with these product groups. Like the story of the ‘Tortoise and the Hare’, Slow demand products are part of any assortment and can be big winners.
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