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Perishable Goods Replenishment & Inventory Management 201 (Using Inforem)
Overview
In this course you will learn how to effectively communicate with Walmart when implementing strategies in the areas of promotions, seasonality and inventory management.
You will gain a better understanding of what inputs are and are not being used in Walmart’s replenishment system to generate an order.
Lastly, we will share best practices, reports and tools that can be used in your daily business.
In this course, you will learn:
- Inputs of order generation
- How to manage In-stocks and presentation levels
- Poor In-stock Root Cause Analysis
- SVIST Reports
- SWAS and Exception Reports
- Supercenter Preset Reports
- Seasonal Profile Analysis
- Detailed Replenishment Analysis Report
- How to validate DD’s or rate of sale
- How to calculate days of supply
- Impacts of Lead-time variations
- Supply Chain Fundamentals
- POS Forecast
- CPFR - forecast accuracy and confidence rates
- Additional things Perishable Suppliers need to know about Inforem
An understanding of Retail Link® is required for this class.
Participants must have authorized access to Retail Link ® (ID & Password).
