Powering Smart Supply Chains
Retail Supply Chain Software
V Net is a transformational solution for retailers looking to migrate from a legacy system or set of manual processes to an AI based predominantly automated solution.
Retail Supply Chain Challenges
As the final and consumer-facing point of the entire supply chain, retailers face challenges that can originate from several upstream segments. These challenges can be as varied as consumer facing out of stocks leading to lost sales or over-investment in capital leading to redundant stock and markdowns.
V Net’s AI driven products address these challenges by providing a collaborative platform to facilitate demand planning; improving fulfilment. An inventory management platform to increase on-shelf availability and reduce markdowns, and an advanced analytics platform to provide actionable insights.
CHALLENGES
- Product availability and fulfilment
- Inventory obsolescence & markdown exposure
- Excess product and lower ROI
- Product life-cycle management including new launch items
Our Retail Supply Chain Solutions
Our modular retail platform enables you to address disruptions and supply chain planning challenges.
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DataAggregation
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Replenishment
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Allocations
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DemandPlanning
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Sales & OperationsPlanning
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AdvancedAnalytics
Supply Chain Data Integration
An organization’s data is its most valuable asset. With data coming from different channels and in different formats, ensuring consistency and accessibility becomes vital.
V Net’s Data Aggregator enables the seamless integration of consumer demand and related supply chain data. The data is screened through a vigorous and automated validation process providing an ecosystem for supply chain planning with data integrity.
FEATURES
- Flexible data interface protocols
- Comprehensive validation and scrubbing process
- Fully automated data ingestion
- Data integrity and single source of truth
Automatic Inventory Replenishment
Optimizing your stock flow management at store level in segments with unpredictable demand, seasonality peaks and troughs, competitive pressure, and short life cycles can be a challenging process.
The V Net automatic replenishment solution solves for these challenges with advanced forecasting algorithms and AI models. The platform creates daily model stock targets by store and item ensuring you have the right items, in the right quantities at the right time in the right locations.
FEATURES
- Powered by the latest in Artificial Intelligence
- Integrated electronically into your ERP
- Automated and scalable across thousands of items
- Accurate at all stages of the product lifecycle
Inventory Allocations
Every item sells at varying velocity dependant on the demographics of each outlet. Additionally, the success of an item’s launch or a promotional campaign is contingent on the allocation of the right stock weight by store.
V Net provides an AI driven predictive approach to allocating stock, both real time or virtually for allocations that require forward order.
The outcome being a balanced stock weight to meet consumer demand of each outlet, maximizing your return on investment on critical new line launches, seasonal, or marketing events.
FEATURES
- Ability to calculate optimized ratio pack requirements at manufacture
- Distribution Centre and Warehouse replenishment capability
- Allocates manufacturer ratio pack and sized items to store taking account virtual stock in transit
- Multi-echelon warehouse to store allocations
Demand Planning and Forecasting Software
In a universe with high level demand uncertainty, seasonal drivers, long lead times and constant promotional noise from your competitors, a digital ecosystem to optimize your demand plans is imperative to profitable growth.
V Net’s AI driven demand planning solution provides a forecast engine that accommodates for these challenges.
Our forecasting engine provides both short term demand plans to ensure optimized fulfilment levels within your distribution facilities and long term demand plans to ensure optimal supply and manufacturing.
FEATURES
- Powered by the latest in Artificial Intelligence
- Collaborative platform to facilitate consensus planning
- Automated and scalable across thousands of items
- Integrated Business Planning
S&OP Software
Developing plans using disparate and manual processes, with limited collaboration and lack of visibility across the supply chain, leads to dissatisfied customers, lost sales and excess inventory levels.
The V Net collaboration process facilitates the execution of sales and operations planning using consumer driven data ensuring strategic plans are executed efficiently.
Providing a collaborative environment where sales, channel operations and retailers can review demand plans and make adjustments to forecasts on the run, ensures inventory commitments and fulfilment can be signed off weeks in advance of stock being ordered and shipped.
FEATURES
- Tools that allow efficient planning at all levels of the item hierarchy and supply chain locations
- Bottom up and top down options for generating plans
Executive Dashboard Software
Today’s supply chain complexities lead to critical data being held in disparate and transactional systems. This leads to time poor supply chain execs spending more time collating data than reviewing analytics to identify missed opportunities that add value.
V Net’s advanced analytics solution digitalizes your supply chain by creating a single ecosystem that contains all relevant data.
The data is synchronized in one environment turning raw data into actionable insights, allowing you to identify opportunities and reduce costs quickly and decisively.
FEATURES
- Provides a centralized hub of disparate data giving you full visibility across all functions
- Gives you the ability to move from strategic to tactical outcomes in one executive dashboard
Supply Chain Data Integration
An organization’s data is its most valuable asset. With data coming from different channels and in different formats, ensuring consistency and accessibility becomes vital.
V Net’s Data Aggregator enables the seamless integration of consumer demand and related supply chain data. The data is screened through a vigorous and automated validation process providing an ecosystem for supply chain planning with data integrity.
FEATURES
- Flexible data interface protocols
- Comprehensive validation and scrubbing process
- Fully automated data ingestion
- Data integrity and single source of truth
Automatic Inventory Replenishment
Optimizing your stock flow management at store level in segments with unpredictable demand, seasonality peaks and troughs, competitive pressure, and short life cycles can be a challenging process.
The V Net automatic replenishment solution solves for these challenges with advanced forecasting algorithms and AI models. The platform creates daily model stock targets by store and item ensuring you have the right items, in the right quantities at the right time in the right locations.
FEATURES
- Powered by the latest in Artificial Intelligence
- Integrated electronically into your ERP
- Automated and scalable across thousands of items
- Accurate at all stages of the product lifecycle
Inventory Allocations
Every item sells at varying velocity dependant on the demographics of each outlet. Additionally, the success of an item’s launch or a promotional campaign is contingent on the allocation of the right stock weight by store.
V Net provides an AI driven predictive approach to allocating stock, both real time or virtually for allocations that require forward order.
The outcome being a balanced stock weight to meet consumer demand of each outlet, maximizing your return on investment on critical new line launches, seasonal, or marketing events.
FEATURES
- Ability to calculate optimized ratio pack requirements at manufacture
- Distribution Centre and Warehouse replenishment capability
- Allocates manufacturer ratio pack and sized items to store taking account virtual stock in transit
- Multi-echelon warehouse to store allocations
Demand Planning and Forecasting Software
In a universe with high level demand uncertainty, seasonal drivers, long lead times and constant promotional noise from your competitors, a digital ecosystem to optimize your demand plans is imperative to profitable growth.
V Net’s AI driven demand planning solution provides a forecast engine that accommodates for these challenges.
Our forecasting engine provides both short term demand plans to ensure optimized fulfilment levels within your distribution facilities and long term demand plans to ensure optimal supply and manufacturing.
FEATURES
- Powered by the latest in Artificial Intelligence
- Collaborative platform to facilitate consensus planning
- Automated and scalable across thousands of items
- Integrated Business Planning
S&OP Software
Developing plans using disparate and manual processes, with limited collaboration and lack of visibility across the supply chain, leads to dissatisfied customers, lost sales and excess inventory levels.
The V Net collaboration process facilitates the execution of sales and operations planning using consumer driven data ensuring strategic plans are executed efficiently.
Providing a collaborative environment where sales, channel operations and retailers can review demand plans and make adjustments to forecasts on the run, ensures inventory commitments and fulfilment can be signed off weeks in advance of stock being ordered and shipped.
FEATURES
- Tools that allow efficient planning at all levels of the item hierarchy and supply chain locations
- Bottom up and top down options for generating plans
Executive Dashboard Software
Today’s supply chain complexities lead to critical data being held in disparate and transactional systems. This leads to time poor supply chain execs spending more time collating data than reviewing analytics to identify missed opportunities that add value.
V Net’s advanced analytics solution digitalizes your supply chain by creating a single ecosystem that contains all relevant data.
The data is synchronized in one environment turning raw data into actionable insights, allowing you to identify opportunities and reduce costs quickly and decisively.
FEATURES
- Provides a centralized hub of disparate data giving you full visibility across all functions
- Gives you the ability to move from strategic to tactical outcomes in one executive dashboard
Our Customer Stories
Here’s proof that V Net can add value to your retail business.
SEE WHY
Why V Net?
Optimized supply chain planning will provide material baseline sales lift without the need for excess inventory, thereby improving profitability.
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Optimize breadth of SKUs.
Our AI models specifically focus on enabling a retailer to optimize their inventory position across a large SKU breadth within multiple complex product segments. -
Speed of implementation.
Our team can have your supply chain powered by V Net in as little as 8 weeks. -
Plug and Play.
V Net can be bolted onto any existing systems (ERPs).
Request a Discovery Session
Let us show you how our retail planning and optimization solutions can take your inventory management to the next level and beyond. Optimizing your retail supply chain starts with your discovery session.
- Initial Discovery Session
- Price Indication & Proof of Value
- Implementation Kick-Off
- Smarter Supply Chain 8 Weeks Later
If you have questions before booking a discovery session, please send us an enquiry via our Contact page.
We traded through the Christmas period with unprecedented operational efficiencies in managing our stock flow through this high-volume trading period. The introduction of V Net across our entire suite of products contributed significantly to JB Hi-Fi hitting our very ambitious in-stock position, stock turn and weeks cover targets. The financial outcome being a contribution by V Net in helping achieve our sales and working capital targets.”
