New Software Helps Manufacturers and Distributors Optimize Inventory Levels, Backlog and Customer Service Levels
Profit Point's order fulfillment application reduces inventory write-offs and warehousing costs while maintaining service requirements
North Brookfield, MA (PRWEB) May 21, 2009 -- Profit Point, a leading supply chain optimization company, today announced the introduction of Profit Fulfillment, a robust and highly-configurable software tool to help business managers determine an optimal backorder fulfillment and product shipping schedule.
"Just-in-time manufacturing has seen significant growth in the past 15 years, but the challenge of balancing inventory, backlog and service levels persists," noted Jim Piermarini, Profit Point's Chief Technology Officer. "Our clients were looking for a solution to help analyze these trade-offs and after real-world testing, we have a cost-effective solution that enables business managers to improve their distribution processes immediately."
Profit Fulfillment can improve any distribution channel, but it is particularly useful when there are backlog orders to multiple customers, and it is important to determine which customers should get their orders filled immediately and on time, and which customers should enter the backlog queue and for how long. Ensuring that order fulfillment and shipment scheduling departments are executing designated functions consistently with a company's overall business objectives can have a significant impact on profitability and customer satisfaction.
"Our clients include high-demand, short-cycle product manufacturers as well as more traditional long-cycle manufacturers," said Piermarini. "And with unpredictable economic conditions, it was essential that we design this application to be highly configurable."
Profit Fulfillment enables distribution managers to optimize order fulfillment processes consistent with a company's overall strategic business objectives. It allows decision makers to prioritize customers, implement complex allocation rules amongst customers, dynamically change the allocation rules by region or segment of customers and minimize total backlog days across all customers, or over specific customer segments. And, the application provides forward-looking visibility to quickly and easily view the impact of different allocation rules on customer order fulfillment.
To learn more about Profit Point's supply chain software and services, visit www.profitpt.com.
About Profit Point:
Profit Point Inc. was founded in 1995 and is now a global leader in supply chain optimization. The company's team of supply chain consultants includes industry leaders in the fields infrastructure planning, green operations, supply chain planning, distribution, scheduling, transportation, warehouse improvement and business optimization. Profit Point's has combined software and service solutions that have been successfully applied across a breadth of industries and by a diverse set of companies, including The Coca-Cola Company, General Electric, Logitech, Rohm and Haas and Toyota.
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