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Inventory Optimization Capabilities
Cloud-based platform for all your analytic inputs. Streamlined for automotive demand forecasting.Â
Inventory Analyst Features
Comprehensive Results
Forward-looking product line and part-level demand is derived from VIO, replacement rates, and scrappage. View detailed breakdowns on selected parts, vehicles, and regions. Calculate extended demand for these parts to enable business decisions. In addition, receive specific stocking recommendations for your distribution centers and stores, tailored to your business’s requirements. Customize this table to best suit your needs, and then download these results in CSV or XLSX formats.
Receive empowering job results, including:
- 5 Yr Part Demand
- Current Demand
- Demand Velocity
- Demand Acceleration
- Avg Vehicle Age
- Avg Vehicle Year
- Demand Rank
- PPJ Demand
- Prominent Make and Model
- VIO (Retail, Fleet, and Org Totals)
- VIO Rank
- Min/Max Year
- Sales 3 mo, Last 12, Previous 12
- Sales Rank and Trend
- Units 3 mo, Last 12, Previous 12
- Units Rank and Trend
- ACES Catalog Fields
- Custom Catalog Fields
Trends
Regional
Discover trends such as demand and velocity on a color-scaled map. Inventory Analyst supports both Experian and IHS data, making VIO incorporation simple
Long-term trends
Supercharge your business decisions by exploring extended trends, broken into multiyear groupings by product line.
Logic
Up-shift key decisions with custom part-level recommendation logic with as much complexity as required using our JavaScript-based scripting language. Additionally, access a multitude of query variables, including demand results, part catalog, and site attributes. After that, get key information such as stocking, ordering, and returning recommendations for stores and warehouses.
Interchange
Drive interchange decisions with better insights. In addition, explore parts that are interchangeable with house brand parts.
Adjustments
Replacement Rates
Apply replacement rates on a per product line level. Product lines are a collection of part terminologies.
Seasonal
Apply seasonal adjustments on a per product line level. Adjustments can be made on a monthly basis.
Scrappage
Srappage, broken down by vehicle type, is important for calculating future vehicle populations and demand.
Vehicle Adjustments
Adjust demand calculations at product line and vehicle make, model, year levels.
Regional Adjustments
At the county level, adjust the demand calculations for regions.
Teams
Manage your users with ease. Firstly, create and manage multiple teams. Secondly, control data access, visual layouts, and recommendation logic on a per-team basis. Users can also be members of multiple teams.
Channels
Flexible
Create multiple channels to match your business’s sales sources. In addition, customize each channel’s curve by product line.
Results
Receive information such as VIO, extended demand, and velocity of product lines, broken down into the configured channels.
Catalog
Integration
Easily import your catalog using standard PIES and ACES files. After that, group those parts to product lines.
Product Lines
Firstly, assign part terminologies to product lines. Secondly, customize the display colors, then use the product lines to run forecasts and get insights like inventory recommendations and demand trends.
VIO
Easily integrate your VIO into Inventory Analyst. Inventory Analyst supports both Experian and IHS data, making incorporating VIO simple. Then, use VIO to visualize maps, charts, and trends in the aftermarket.
