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Translytics's advanced algorithm revolutionized a leading global chemical and consumer goods producer to optimize their inventory by leveraging advanced analytics.
Inventory optimization

Translytics's advanced algorithm revolutionized a lubricant producer's supply chain, integrating demand analysis and modeling to streamline operations and improve efficiency

Summary

The customer operates in two business areas: Adhesive Technologies and Consumer Brands. Headquartered in Navi Mumbai, both Adhesive Technologies and Consumer Brands, through the Hair category, have a strong presence in the country. The customer was struggling with their inventory management with majority of cases for excess and obsolete inventory. Through Translytics help, they were able to achieve.​

Approx. 10%

 Overall reduction in Inventory

Areas of Focus

  • Inventory driven by S&OP process and MRP calculations/suggestions through SAP​
  • Excess & Obsolete inventory in both FG as well as RM​​
  • Client was not able to:​
    • Find Root causes for wrong inventory decision​
    • Take Corrective actions when needed to optimize the inventory​​
    • Improve supplier performance​​

Solution Approach

In response to the customer's specific needs and challenges, Translytics utilized sophisticated inventory analysis and optimization algorithms to conduct a thorough analysis in the following areas:​
  • Understand As-Is inventory planning process​​
  • Analyse the gaps in the process​​
  • Confirm the process gaps through data using analytics on python​
  • Create a system to generate alerts for: ​
    • when wrong decisions are taken​
    • when an abnormality in demand is observed which is going to impact inventory​​​
  • Suggest actions to optimize inventory levels​
  • An intelligent decision-making layer was built both for FG as well as RM inventory​​

Impact

Once the solution models were finalized and deployed, the customer reaped the following benefits:
  • Reduced overall inventory by 12%​​ ​​
  • An intelligent layer was created on top of data layer to generate alerts and actions for better decision making​
  • Customized algorithms capable of capturing external data​​

Company

Leading global chemical and consumer goods producer ​

Industry

Chemical & Consumer goods​

Shipping Network

PAN India

Association Year

2022

Focused Area

Inventory Optimization