Turn size data into profit with intelligent size curve optimization
This solution addresses the key challenges faced by the retail industry by enabling planners to optimize size distribution, reduce stockouts and excess inventory, and improve sell-through rates. The solution leverages SAP Analytics Cloud in SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC), SAP Datasphere, SAP Databricks (for ML recommendations), and SAP Build.
Overview
Improve sell‑through with data‑driven size distribution and allocation
Improve sell-through and reduce stockouts by optimizing size distribution across purchase orders and store allocation through data-driven, SKU-level demand insights, enabling more accurate size availability and higher conversion at each location.
Reduce excess inventory and markdown risk
Inventory-aware netting across on-hand stock, in-transit inventory, committed quantities, and returns prevents overbuying of slow-moving sizes, enabling more accurate purchasing decisions and reducing excess inventory and markdown exposure.
Improve distribution efficiency by reducing repacking effort and pack breakage
Minimize unnecessary pack breaks with pack-conscious recommendations, and optimize distribution decisions by determining whether to ship items as is, break them down, or rebuild store ready packs, resulting in fewer manual touches, smoother throughput, and lower labor costs.
Details
Solution type
Extensions and Add-ons
Industry
Retail
Compatibility
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Features
Intelligent app to analyze and optimize size curves with data-driven insights
Use SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP Datasphere to unify size metrics across categories, regions, and stores, delivering real-time insights that help merchandizing managers identify trends and make informed decisions.
Optimize size curves and enable data-driven planning
Size curve optimization and planning enable demand planners to optimize size distribution using recommendations from the machine learning model. Sales data is processed in SAP Databricks to generate optimized size recommendations
Review and create size‑optimized purchase orders
Purchase orders can be created directly in SAP Analytics Cloud using the Joule Agent based on approved demand plans, and are executed seamlessly in SAP S/4HANA.
