Retail & E-commerce Businesses
Retail continues to be a significant growth driver in most economies, but retailers of all types and in all geographies are under pressure like never before. Brands need to satisfy “never satisfied” consumers with escalating expectations of innovative products, best-in-class service and affordable prices
To address these challenges, global retailers are turning to network design and optimization solutions to drive improvements in service and cost whilst satisfying the objectives of shareholders and stakeholders.
Trusted by supply chain teams at leading global retailers
Supply Chain Network Design
SC Navigator is an off-the-shelf scenario planning and analytics app that helps teams make optimal supply chain design and tactical planning decisions based on hard data.
– Easily visualize and understand your current supply chain
– Test countless scenarios and create optimal designs
– Identify critical trade-offs
Bespoke Optimization Apps
The AIMMS low-code platform is a toolkit for rapid modeling and app development of mathematical optimization applications.
– Model any business and research problem
– Run countless scenarios in realtime
– Create modern web-based user interfaces
– Complements AI/ML
Easy-to-use data interface with strong scenario modeling
“AIMMS enables us to quickly evaluate various scenarios that drive supply chain efficiency and customer satisfaction. The system allowed us to be up and running very quickly.”
Seasonality and peak planning
Does your business’s seasonality and preparation for the next peak mean that you are constantly juggling capacity in your retail supply chain with demand from your stores?
With AIMMS you can proactively optimize your supply chain assets, balancing stock, storage capacity, transportation and demand forecasts to guarantee the right product, in the right place at the right cost, at the most important time of the year.
Cost versus service
Are you able to maintain the optimal distribution network given 3rd party providers, differing lease periods, transportation costs and the rapidly changing location of your suppliers?
With AIMMS you can model different scenarios to trade off optimal warehouse locations and types, inventory levels, and store delivery allocations for each location and assess them for cost, service and sustainability targets all whilst responding to rapidly changing circumstances.
Multi-format expansion
How do you support the expansion of retail formats – convenience, on-line, click and collect – while also maintaining cost efficiency and quality?
With AIMMS you can model and compare multiple scenarios around growth for different channels so that you are prepared to support customers with an optimal network whatever the future brings. You can take into account constraints on how your business supports each format to create a workable plan for supplying all customers.
Operational efficiency within the warehouse
Making efficient use of your resources is critical to getting goods on the shelf in good time. With AIMMS you can create applications that can optimize critical warehouse processes in a way uniquely suited to your business’s challenges, whether that is slotting within the warehouse, moving goods in or out, or planning your product assortment.
Here's how our solution helped other customers
“AIMMS allows us to quickly answer very specific questions affecting our business. The benefits of optimizing our business based on those answers will fund the use of AIMMS prescriptive analytics for many years.”
“Before AIMMS, we might have thought that this is the right thing to do, but we can’t prove it. Now we have access to the data that underpins our recommendations.”
Lay-Z-Boy Success Story
Learn how Lay-Z-Boy drove cross-company transformation initiatives and how they used AIMMS SC Navigator to support some of those initiatives.
