Optimize inventory management in Microsoft Dynamics NAV!

Have you ever faced a situation where trying to achieve a high service level usually leads to overstocking within your company? Would you agree that an overstocked inventory causes expenses from forced sell-outs, postpones the release of new assortments, freezes working capital, and leads to losses related to damage and obsolescence?

Built on, and integrated within Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the Soft4Inventory software solution allows for an increase of up to 50 % in the customer service level you want to (or must) achieve, and up to an average 40% decrease in the inventory level during the first year following Soft4Inventory implementation, according to our customers’ experience.

How to manage your stock level efficiently

Soft4Inventory uses well-recognized TOC (“theory of constraints”) dynamic buffer technology together with the LEAN pull replenishment approach in order to manage your inventory levels efficiently.

TOC dynamic buffer helps to set and adjust appropriate stock levels for each item in each location using inventory state levels rather than forecasting. This simple approach helps to overcome the majority of forecasting issues, such as unpredictable forecasting errors and insufficient planning data for new items with no history. It also helps to manage stock levels with greater efficiency during and after sales campaigns.

Using Soft4Inventory you can affect the bottom line because:

zz Service level increases. Increasing the service level usually leads to an increase in actual sales and profit. As profit increases without additional costs, this additional profit directly adds to the bottom line.

zz Overstocked inventory decreases and reduces the accumulation of excess inventory. As a result, working capital, exposition and warehouse spaces are freed up, and inventory turnover ratio increases.

zz Time required for inventory management operations and decision-making shortens. As a result, inventory management costs decrease. Daily operations require minimum time from highly competent staff; therefore the employees can work on more valuable tasks such as assortment building, pricing, and customer service.

A company usually achieves all three benefits in different proportions. Using the benefits achieved, the company significantly improves its overall ROI (Return on Investment) indicators.

Main Soft4Inventory features

Right

automation

level

Contrary to automatic forecasting, when decisions on inventory levels are entrusted to algorithms, Soft4Inventory is designed to recognize cases where the inventory level should be changed with a high degree of accura-cy, leaving the final decision to the Operator (semi automatic mode). Final result - very high reliability, with probably the lowest possible time con-sumption.

Transparency

of process

When an efficient decision on inventory management depends on the hu-man factor, Soft4Inventory visualization tools, such as the SKU chart, inven-tory state colors, and work flow control, help to identify where the decision needs to be made, what decision has or has not been made, and why.

Extremely fast

decision making

With Soft4Inventory, your people can take decisions at a glance: to buy or not to buy, switch to the substituting item or not, what to do if the condi-tions have changed, etc. This allows your company to react faster to market changes.

Unified

KPI, s

A unified set of KPI’s applies to all management levels from operational to strategic, focusing managers at each level on the same priorities. This ex-cludes conflicts due to managers at different levels setting different priori-ties, and makes the decision-making and execution process more efficient.

Harmonization

with LEAN culture

Soft4Inventory is a perfect fit for companies following LEAN ideas, as they generally use pull replenishment and try as far as possible to have transparent processes and unified KPIs.

Core of the

"Pull replenishment"

procedure

Soft4Inventory has an efficient and easy-to-follow self-control and external control system, which leads operators through their daily tasks according to the Pull replenishment procedure. This is a useful feature when needed for overcoming employee resistance to change.

What type of company benefits from Soft4Inventory?

Soft4Inventory brings benefits to mass-production manufacturing, distribution, wholesale and retail companies:

zz Motor vehicle parts and accessories merchantszz Construction material merchantszz Various equipment merchantszz Household appliance, electric houseware, and consumer electronics

merchants zz Stationery and office supply merchants zz Drug merchantszz Grocery merchants - dairy products, meat and poultry, fish and seafood,

confectionery etc.zz Beer, wine and distilled alcoholic beverage merchantszz …and more!

About Soft4Soft4 counts more than 15 years of business software design and develop-ment intended for the world’s distribution, leasing and property manage-ment markets.

Soft4Inventory is distributed all over the world. Your investments are safe because:

zz There are thousands of Microsoft Dynamics NAV partners around the globe – you will never be left to face problems alone as any of them can understand and develop the Soft4Inventory code.

zz SOFT4’s Partner Network is ready to provide local support and further development of the solution according to your needs.

For more information, please visit www.soft4inventory.com or contact us by e-mail ask4soft@soft4.eu!

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