Product • 18.06.2007

SAF RetailSuite Warehouse

Optimize Your Warehouse Management

SAF OrderManager Overview

Never too much and never too little – SAF RetailSuite Warehouse offers innovative solutions for the logistics challenges of warehouses and distribution centers. Based upon the demand development of the stores and thus of the buying patterns of customers, SAF RetailSuite Warehouse enables cost-optimized inventory levels and an efficient product flow.

This innovative forecasting and order handling system is an intelligent software package for the automated optimization of the replenishment process – for as many items as desired. As technology leader in the field of forecasting software and automated ordering, SAF helps to increase the operational efficiency, on-time delivery performance and profitability of the warehouse with this outstanding software package.

Thanks to its outstanding forecasting accuracy, SAF RetailSuite Warehouse is able to deal with one of the toughest challenges of warehouse management: maintaining product availability while simultaneously reducing inventories. This results in lower costs of tied-up capital and higher service levels.

Faster and More Accurate than the Best Manual Planning
The heart of the software package is the SAF SuperWarehouse forecasting and ordering software which takes care of the automated inventory replenishment planning. The software provides superior quality sales forecasts much faster than the best manual planning process. In addition, SAF RetailSuite Warehouse includes a wide range of applications. Thanks to their easy-to-navigate and user-friendly user interfaces, they ensure an optimally efficient ordering process. These SAF applications were tailor-made to handle the routine tasks of the most important replenishment processes. They support and optimize a variety of analytical, optimization and control functions.

The standard modules of SAF RetailSuite Warehouse:

SAF SuperWarehouse
Fully automated ordering and inventory optimization

SAF EngineManager
Process control for centralized replenishment

SAF PredictorManager
Centralized administration of sales influencing factors

SAF ConfigurationManager 
Configuration management in multi-warehouse environments

SAF DataMonitor
Visualization of relevant order information

SAF OrderManager
Enables manual order revisions

 
Forecasting Software with Efficient Add-on Modules
In addition to the standard components of SAF RetailSuite Warehouse, two additional optional components also support warehouse management: SAF DC-Link ensures the trouble-free data technical connection between the retail stores and the warehouses and handles the data transfer within the framework of CPFR projects (Collaborative Planning, Fore-casting and Replenishment). SAF ToolBox includes many practice-proven tools for system optimization and analysis of the parameter settings within the scope of SAF RetailSuite Warehouse.

channels: supply chain management, replenishment systems (software), forecasting software, ordering software