When inventory is holding you back.

Do you want to capture more sales, avoid disappointing customers with stock outs and prevent damage to your bottom line with costs to expedite, discounting inventory, and stock obsolescence?

Do you need to keep your inventory relevant as the market evolves around you?

How do you ensure your product portfolio is optimised?

How up to date is your portfolio, what insights were used to allocate product categories, and how long does this take?

Stringent takes care of the tedious and time-consuming process of categorizing products into optimum segmentation, the software analyses tens of thousands of SKUs based on verified data and insights, and shows the results for you graphically. Our report by SKU updates key factors in your ERP that drive daily inventory decisions.

Stringent achieves your goals to:

• Optimise your product portfolio, refresh segmentation, and keep your inventory relevant.
• Align your supply chain strategy and inventory policies with your sales and marketing strategy, at each stocking location at a SKU level.
• Save time and effort to review every item, ensure it is relevant, and update the master data.

Benefits

Experience shows that products are not always set up to perform at their optimum, particularly as time moves on. People, processes, and systems get swamped. Sales opportunities get missed, unnecessary costs creep in, and $ invested in inventory is not optimised. Stringent addresses these issues.

It takes time, effort, diligence, persistence, and knowledge to analyse performance of all items in a portfolio, and then to keep the key factors up to date. We developed Stringent software to do the heavy lifting, and at low cost. Refreshing the reports is simple once things are set up.

The reports interface with any ERP system, using common formats. No complicated integration is required.

The objective is to optimise the portfolio of products, increase service levels across your network, capture more sales and avoid disappointing customers with stock outs, to reduce wasteful inventory costs, and to optimise your inventory investments.

Implementation

Implementation follows an agile process, occurring in 6 iterative stages. After deliverables are agreed upon, cleansed sales data is run through Stringent and our first report is generated. After presenting this report, we make any necessary adjustments, then cleansed key supply data is run through Stringent and we generate our second report. After presenting this report, we make any necessary adjustments, and the project is reviewed and signed off.