Transactional day to day inventory planning to ensure greater availability for consumers and maximised sales opportunities.

Inclusive of:

• Order placement
• Reviewing optimal stock weight in distribution centres
• Working capital
• Waste and markdown​
• Monitoring baseline and promotional sales
• Seasonality
• Events
• Range reviews and pack changeovers

We assist you in ensuring your demand plans are aligned with the retailer – taking into consideration scan forecasts, display requirements and safety stock. We assist in reviewing ongoing receipt plans to ensure alignment for production planning, supply planning and importing of goods. We help you to align scan forecasts for baseline sales, promotional activity, seasonality, events and range reviews – inclusive of management of new lines into distribution centres and run down of deleted lines.

We help you to manage the relationship with your carrier, the retailer and retailer distribution centres.

Inclusive of:

• DC capacity escalations
• Delivery date changes
• Re-booking deliveries
• Rejections due to damages or temperature
• MLOR requests
• Dummy orders
• C3 transport bookings and disaster management – floods
• Rail delays
• Derailments

For special events and range reviews we micro manage each sku until they are receipted into the distribution centres

With an in-depth understanding of how the retailer’s inventory cycle works, we are able to help you to align your inbound rosters to the most suitable order and delivery days to capture key trade periods, react to changes in demand and avoid capacity pinch points.

We work with you closely to manage your rosters for public holiday periods to ensure you have the most effective inbound coverage

Unfortunately, in the FMCG industry, things don’t always go to plan. At Apiary Group our primary focus is to address and resolve the issue at hand. Once this has been managed, we take the time to stop and understand why the issue occurred in the first place and how to mitigate a re-occurrence in the future. We then ensure issues are documented with root causes and mitigation plans to refer back to if need be.

As part of our offering, you will gain access to our improvement initiatives program which will help to improve availability, grow sales, reduce waste and achieve greater overall supply chain efficiencies. We will conduct a full review of your current processes including root cause analysis and put forth recommendations for improvement. Once agreed, we implement and track any initiatives and provide updates.

Whether its weekly, monthly, annually or ad-hoc, Apiary Group will help to provide all of your reporting needs, either select from one of our pre developed reporting options or let us customise one to suit your business. Our typical reporting includes: sales, waste and markdown, inbound service level, forecast accuracy, promotional performance, store availability, inventory holdings, working capital, network days cover, ex factory sales versus target.

• Improvement to delivery on time and in full results
• Improvement to store availability
• Sales growth year on year
• Reduction in waste and markdown through stock management
• Reduction in logistics costs through improved asset utilisation
• Reduction in picking costs through improved ordering cycles
• Reduced labor spend through improved forecast accuracy
• Reduction in inventory holdings through improved forecast accuracy