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Unthreading Excess Inventory: How a Leading Apparel Company Tailored Its Supply Chain

When you manage some of the world’s top international fashion brands across men’s, women’s, and kids' categories, relying on manual planning leaves you with critical blind spots. Discover how one of India's largest manufacturing and retail apparel companies partnered with o9 Solutions to solve the costly problem of end-of-season excess and unsold inventory. By automating inventory planning and breaking through factory capacity constraints with a single, integrated platform, they drastically reduced lost sales and slashed supply chain costs.

This customer experienced end-of-season excess and unsold inventory. This was due to a lack of comprehensive visibility into demand, supply, and inventory at multiple levels. Pre-season and in-season demand/supply planning was done manually with low visibility of factory capacity constraints.

Sustainability impact

Avoiding unnecessary sourcing, expediting, and reducing inventory.

challenges

Complexity to Clarity

Challenge

At the end of the season, there was excess and unsold inventory, which impacted profitability.

Solution

With o9, the process of Inventory Planning and Review across all of the brands was automated. Sales outcomes, inwards flow, and inventory outcomes can now be projected at the category selling point level, increasing forecasting accuracy.

Value Delivery

Systems Replaced

  • Excel
  • Homegrown solutions

Key Functionalities Implemented

The o9 Enterprise Knowledge Graph was used to implement End-to-End IBP capabilities, which support critical demand and supply workflows on a single integrated platform.

Moreover, the unique o9 solver capability is used to solve capacity and material constraints and to highlight shortfalls.

Customer Benefits

success factors

  • o9’s highly differentiated knowledge graph brings all key functions together on one platform.
  • Combining planning and analytics across time horizons and at multiple levels to make much better decisions.
  • o9 being the future-proof platform with continuous innovation in advanced analytics, NLP, solvers, etc.

KPI Impacted

  • Reduction of non-standard supply chain cost (flex and logistics).
  • Significant inventory improvement.
  • Reduction of lost sales.
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