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Blain's Farm & Fleet uses supplier lead times for accurate, proactive ordering
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Blain’s Farm and Fleet is a Midwestern retailer that provides everything from clothing
and houseware to farming and fencing supplies. They operate over 30 stores and one
warehouse.
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- Blain's required many of their items to be automatically replenished on a daily
basis
- Large range of items included seasonal and promotional items as well as slow moving
products
- Desired accurate forecasting and inventory exception management to free up analysts
to focus on strategic planning
- Integrate JustEnough system into Blain's transaction system
- Use forecasting that takes multiple seasonal and promotional effects on past sales
into account and then projects these effects onto future data
- The retailer has all 1,500 of its suppliers using the system to receive and acknowledge
orders
- By combining the replenishment solution with improved replenishment practices, inventory
turns increased 25% and overall in-stock service levels increased by 1%
- Processing of all orders done daily within hours
- With increased forecast accuracy and proactive ordering that takes supplier lead
times into account, products are in-store both at the start and for the duration
of seasons and promotions
- Reduced inventory freed up working capital
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