Discount Stores: Optimise Your Supply Chain to Maximise Profit

Tiny margins and huge variety makes the discount segment of retailing particularly challenging. Promotion planning and inventory optimisation 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 retail supply chain solutions for provide. Our retail supply chain solutions for discount stores integrate modules that support discount retailers by optimising inventory, simplifying planning, reducing transportation and minimising distribution costs while reducing time from order to delivery in a highly volatile environment.

Compete Effectively

In the extremely competitive world of discount retail, 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. Our retail supply chain solutions for discount stores enable you to compete effectively with a combination of tools that optimises 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 Optimisation: Avoid rush charges, express delivery fees, excess inventory and unhappy customers with sophisticated inventory optimisation 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, minimise working capital demands and keep customers happy.

Contact a Manhattan representative to learn more about the retail supply chain solutions we offer that are specifically tailored to the needs of discount stores.