Competitive Advantage

Improve Service Levels - Missing sales due to out of stock products can result in permanently reduced shelf space and reduced sales for the next calendar year. Dropping service levels is a result of many easily corrected supply-chain and operational issues. eChain will determine the root cause of your decreased service levels and propose ways to affordably increase your service levels and product availability.

Reduce Transportation Costs - With fuel at a record price, transportation costs are increasing significantly. It is no longer acceptable to expedite significant quantities of products, nor to ship partially loaded trucks. eChain can show you ways to improve planning that will reduce your expedited shipping costs, and how to reduce transportation spend by more efficiently planning transportation and cubing out your shipments.

Improved Inventory Turns - Better forecasting, reduced product acquisition time, SKU Rationalization, and finely-tuned safety stock calculations will allow you to improve your inventory turns significantly. Improved inventory turns directly result in higher profits. We will benchmark every component of your inventory turns and drive the necessary improvements to increase your turns by 1 to 3 times on average.

Why eChain?

Increase SKU profitability - Revisiting your ABC analysis and SKU Rationalization can result in improved availability of core products. We can show you the relationship between core product and loss leader sales and highly profitable product sales to fine-tune your on-shelf product mix to maximize your product revenues.

Consolidate Warehousing and Storage - Improved Forecasting, SKU Rationalization, and lean processes often results in improved service levels and decreased stocking requirements. Less on-hand inventory and a fine-tuned distribution network can result in fewer warehouses and DC's. We can determine and define the strategy to decrease your warehouse and excess inventory spend.

Decrease Product Cost - Better planning and collaboration between you, your vendors and your customers through approaches like Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and Collaborative Planning Forecasting Replenishment (CPFR) can result in less chaotic and sporadic ordering and better planning across your entire distributed network. Better planning and visibility is typically rewarded with better purchasing terms and prices, and less returns.