How to store the goods
Store distribution is divided into two main angles, put what and how much to put what front to share a single store more than the store has been mentioned in the order, the main share today how much to put the issue.
Every day when a clothing store enters the market, it looks like a stream of people, money like water, but when we further analyze a single SKU level (single monochrome single code), the opposite of the retail rules is the standard intermittent demand, a Average monthly sales of 200,000 shops, the average monthly price of 400 yuan, according to test its burst sales is about 3.32 pieces / month *, while other models on average only 0.21 pieces / yards * month.
Based on this situation, we introduced the concept of target inventory, which literally means that we should put a proper amount of stock according to the set target, like drinking a group of people at the wine table. I do not know The best way to get a drink is to get everyone first, not enough to drink and not to put up a box of wine, and 90% of the barcodes in most of our stores are set to 1, let the sale of the store to see which is better to sell which fast make up.
How to adjust the store inventory
; Guess a paragraph have to guess all the money; guess a shop have to guess all the stores; guess have to guess for the future today every day.
Like our 1000 stores * 200 color * 3 size = 600,000 forecasts, at least every day to predict so many times, and this has gone beyond the scope of manpower, let alone take into account the upstream supply anomalies, The integration between shops, the weather changes, a variety of competing measures, so the vast majority of companies made a compromise here, that is, with a limited number of commodities staff to guess a week's trend, and then by supervisors each superb Positioning head correction, the wrong can not view, predict the level of visual methods have steadily improved.
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Since it is impossible to predict how much alcohol each person drinks at a large feast, then the unified management of the drinks is handed over to the diligent waiter who is in charge of constant pours (replenishment) and also the replacement of a larger glass (target inventory adjustment) Some people go down to find him a few cups of wine the fastest, then change the cup, no longer for a bowl, or drink quickly put the bottle on hand;
Similarly, some people slowly pour, some people liquor, beer, wine, rice wine replaced, the waiter to do is to constantly adjust the glass according to the speed of drinking, while pouring wine can continue, even if she started Do not know everyone's drink amount.
So in the target inventory management, we will be divided into black / red / yellow / green / blue border, to indicate the extent of inventory is not enough to sell, as shown in the following figure:
When the inventory of how many standard definition, the rest is based on the continuous adjustment of sales, the specific procedures to adjust the lower and lower the algorithm is more trivial, and according to the different rules of the retail distribution of different parameters will be different, Interested friends can separate discussion on the algorithm itself, the following figure is a SKU based on retail automatic adjustment curve, we can see that when the sales become better, the target inventory will be gradually enlarged from the first one to continuously respond to sales:
Through the target inventory management method, the average inventory of a single store can be reduced by about 50% on the premise of unchanged performance. The stores that make VMI achieve the same performance, only about 50% of the inventory in the traditional model is required, and the omission is The comparison of the two is based on the following table, for those stocks that are not allowed to be brought by the forecast
How to replenish the store
In fact, a single store replenishment is really nothing to say, the rules are the following three:
Target inventory> actual inventory + inventory in transit, the difference is the volume of replenishment
The actual target inventory inventory + in transit, this is not replenishment
When the central warehouse is out of stock, some of the shop extra goods returned to the warehouse, continue to maintain the rest of the needs of the store replenishment
This is more than half of the banquet, the variety of drinks at each table, the speed is different, the last thing to do is to bring each table can not afford to return to focus together, and then redistributed to the drinkable table, focused on 'toast' this Clear stock movements, will not leave the stock but also drink well on demand.
According to Professor Li Shan-You's Internet ideas point of view, the rules of a single SKU may be extremely simple, but when the current target inventory adjustment rules through 1000 stores at 600,000 at different times, space Of the SKU formation of group behavior, with the central warehouse of this closed-loop hub, the interaction between the simple rules of the adjacent individuals, can emerge the overall complexity, but can be the best with each retail store daily match.
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In summary, the limited time to share today is the goal of the VMI system inventory management part of the terminal store in the realization of this is a changing world, we are still continuing to improve and continue to be cutting-edge, inter-bank , More professional knowledge into which, more friends are welcome to join us in the collision of ideas, pay more attention to the continuous improvement of today's consumers, each day towards the common goal of the next step.