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Sales forecasting can be enhanced through the use of machine learning algorithms that analyze various elements such as Seasonal Sales, Recurring Sales, Missed Sales, Related Sales, Marketing Promotions, Trend Impact, Abnormal Demand, and No Demand Cleanup. This process involves the automatic ranking of products at each outlet based on criteria like turnover, margin, and service level, facilitating a more strategic approach to inventory management. Additionally, it calculates the optimal safety stock levels for each product at each outlet to ensure sufficient supplies while minimizing excess. By determining the ideal reserve levels, resources can be utilized more effectively, leading to cost savings and improved efficiency. The system also assesses replenishment needs for all products across outlets and transit warehouses, generating comprehensive reports on product availability and liquidity. Important events trigger email notifications, ensuring relevant stakeholders stay informed. Furthermore, the system provides actionable recommendations for fulfilling calculated needs throughout the supply chain, while accounting for constraints such as priority, financial limits, service levels, and delivery methods. Automatically, it creates Supply and Sales Plans alongside Replenishment and Transfer Orders, streamlining operations and enhancing overall supply chain performance. Ultimately, this approach not only boosts operational efficiency but also improves decision-making processes across the board.

Aligned Product Wheels™ are used by Phenix scheduling and planning software to optimize inventory changeovers and inventory changes, and align production with business goals such as customer service, cost, and working capital. Schedules are used to determine the order and timing of production of hundreds of products from multiple production lines. Correct production sequences reduce changeover costs. Every out-of-sync product makes it more difficult to changeover and costs time and money. The correct cycle times are balanced between inventory costs and changeover costs. Too short or too long cycles can cause problems with customer service and inventory. Phenix product wheels assign product family lines to product lines and optimize the production sequence for minimal changeover loss.