Supply chain optimization solutions
Discover end-to-end supply chain scenario planning that spans organizational silos to optimize production plans. Improve supplier collaboration and freight logistics. Prevent financial losses and protect your brand's reputation. Do all this with SAS supply chain optimization software.
Why choose SAS for supply chain optimization solutions?
Reconcile plans top-down, bottom-up and middle-out to help ensure your financial and merchandise plans work hand in hand. Uncover procurement risks earlier than ever.
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Access the right financial tools at the right time
Enable supply chain managers to report accurately and quickly on key metrics and trends with financial management tools. Gain insights for changing promotions, see inventory by region and location, plan for new products, review the product mix and more.
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Customize visualizations to your needs
Provide your supply chain professionals with visualizations that can be customized to your business needs. These visualizations give a look into trends, revenue and goals, keeping business users on top of anomalies as they arise.
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Get to meaningful data points efficiently
Organize tasks and communicate with colleagues via a landing page. Alerts enable you to mitigate disruptions quickly, and key metrics and insights help you make the right decisions faster.
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Improve your demand planning
Model and forecast all your products and selling locations with a patented statistical forecasting engine that uses advanced forecasting methods.
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Reduce procurement risk
Quickly identify high-risk procurement events that need further investigation with continuous monitoring of staff and supplier activities. A powerful risk-scoring engine uncovers more suspicious activities with greater accuracy.
How can your business plan and predict demand with supply chain optimization software?
Harness your supply chain data to make informed decisions, reduce costs, improve overall customer satisfaction and ensure your shelves are stocked.
Connect customer & supply chain intelligence
Connect shopper engagement to consumer demand by bringing together market and consumer drivers with machine learning models.
Avoid under- or over-stocking inventory
Get near-real-time insight into supply and demand dynamics. Calculate optimal inventory before the fact using what-if event simulation.
Achieve better planning outcomes
Use time-series and machine learning forecasting that considers intermittent demand, new product launches and dropped items. Let the solution choose the best algorithms, or build your own with SAS or open source models.
Quickly identify high-risk events
Distinguish high-risk procurement activities that warrant further investigation – before money goes out the door – with an analytics data model, specific scenarios and predefined rules based on decades of forensics experience.
The value of supply chain optimization solutions from SAS
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15%
One of the largest CPG companies in the world achieved a 15% improvement in demand sensing forecast accuracy and significantly decreased over- and understocks.
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12%
A multinational appliance manufacturer reduced inventory by over 12% and boosted revenue by 1%. It kept product availability above 93% versus 63% the previous year.
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SAS is a leader in analytics solutions
SAS is a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning.
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