Discount Stores: Optimize Your Supply Chain to Maximize Profit

Tiny margins and huge variety makes the discount segment of retailing particularly challenging. Promotion planning and inventory optimization can make the difference between success and liquidation—not of just inventory, but the enterprise itself.

When you've got to get it right, you need the edge Manhattan Associate's Supply Chain Solutions for Retail provide. Supply Chain Solutions for Retail integrate modules that support discount retailers by optimizing inventory, simplifying planning, reducing transportation and minimizing distribution costs while reducing time from order to delivery in a highly volatile environment.

Compete Effectively

In the extremely competitive world of discount retailing, you need more than low prices. You need tight control over all your costs, real-time information about your orders and inventory and immediate knowledge of any emerging problems. Manhattan's Supply Chain Solutions for Retail enable you to compete effectively with a combination of tools that optimizes your supply chain:

• Transportation Lifecycle Management: Reduce costs, reroute around trouble spots, coordinate deliveries precisely and deliver more, faster, for less money. Connect your transportation network from procurement to delivery.
• Order Lifecycle Management: Manage the order process efficiently from supplier to customer, and even back again, and you save money.
• Inventory Optimization: Avoid rush charges, express delivery fees, excess inventory and unhappy customers with sophisticated inventory optimization capability.
• Distribution Management: From your suppliers' loading dock to your customer's front door, leverage flow-through capabilities to streamline your distribution process, deliver faster and reduce costs.
• Planning and Forecasting: Anticipate demand—and respond quickly when it changes. Accurately predict inventory requirements to increase sales, minimize working capital demands and keep customers happy.