Grocery Retail
One Plan, from Budget to Shelf
Grocery runs on volume, thin margins and short shelf lives. Yet most chains still bridge planning and execution with spreadsheets: store replenishment, DC orders and supplier orders run in separate tools, and every promotion or late truck turns into manual firefighting.
Dataviva Supply Chain Planning plans the whole network in one time-phased plan: supplier to DC, DC to store, and supplier direct to store, day by day and weeks ahead, within truck, pallet and case limits. It is event-driven, not batch: when sales, stock or a delivery change, it re-plans only what is affected, within minutes. And the plan runs the execution: purchase orders and transfers are raised, approved and issued in the same system, and stock is re-allocated automatically when a delivery lands late or short.
Fresh gets its own logic. Target stock is capped at what will sell before expiry, store spoilage is projected and covered, and near-expiry warehouse stock is pushed to the stores that need it. See how fresh replenishment works.
The same platform runs Merchandise Financial Planning, Assortment & Category Planning and Pricing & Promotions. Budgets, ranges, prices and promotions are tested in what-if scenarios and flow straight into the demand forecast and replenishment, with no hand-offs. Start with one module and add the rest.
Store and DC Replenishment
Multi-tier, time-phased orders for every store and DC, with truck fill, order multiples and delivery calendars built in, continuously updated, no daily batch cycles.
Fresh and Short Shelf Life
Real-time updates based on the freshest sales and stock data handle disruptions and increase efficiency. Orders capped at what will sell before expiry, with store spoilage projected and near-expiry DC stock pushed to stores.
Promotion Forecasting
Each promotion's effect is separated from base demand, so stores are stocked for the uplift, even for promotions never run before. Promotional stock can scale up without overwhelming DCs.
Supplier Ordering
Purchase orders within supplier terms, multi-step approvals that account for total stock positions and even financial plans.
Pricing, Promotions and Markdowns
Promotion calendar, prices and markdowns tested in what-if scenarios for sales and margin, and set against the stock you have and have on order.
Range and Category Planning
Continuous range reviews, with listings and delistings optimized for every store from bottom-up forecasts, within space limits, and sent straight into ordering.
Merchandise Financial Planning
Sales, margin and inventory targets by category and period, kept current as the season runs.
>25%
Lower overstocks
>5%
Higher sales
>5%
Higher margin
Case Studies
Hypermarket Supply Chain
Grocery, Supply Chain
This hypermarket’s supply chain was partly managed manually and partly automated, leading to a lack of synchronization across systems and departments as well as issues in Store replenishment and Distribution Center fulfillments. With Dataviva Supply Chain solution, the company was able to boost operational efficiency, centralize and synchronize their supply chain…
Fashion Forecasting & Replenishment
Fashion, Demand Forecasting, Allocation, Replenishment
Clothing and General Merchandise divisions of one of Western Europe’s largest hypermarket chains with more than 1,500 stores used multiple applications to provide their forecasting models and a reactive order-point system to move inventory from warehouse to store. With the aim of cutting down on time to plan and execute and improve supply chain efficiency, the company implemented Dataviva’s Demand Forecasting and Allocation & Replenishment solutions.
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