Lack of Supply Chain efficiency
The Symptoms:
- Poor demand forecasting accuracy
- Inaccurate or outdated inventory data
- Teams lack trust in forecast reliability
- Siloed systems prevent supply chain integration
The Challenge:
Retailers often lack end-to-end visibility into their supply chains, causing delays, stockouts, and miscommunication.
Solution:
We implement real-time supply chain planning and tracking tools for improved transparency and agility.
Key Benefits:
- Anticipate disruptions before they impact stores
- Monitor supply flows from source to shelf
- Improve supplier coordination and transparency
- Reduce delays and miscommunication across the chain
Excessive Logistics Costs
The Symptoms:
- Fragmented purchase orders and under-shipments
- High freight and customs costs due to poor planning
- Manual workflows create delays and additional labor costs
- Inefficient routing and fulfillment execution
The Challenge:
Retailers frequently face rising logistics costs due to a variety of systemic and operational inefficiencies, including High Freight Costs, Excessive Handling or Transfers, or Fragmented Purchase Orders and Under-shipments.
Solution:
QBCS provides strategic consulting services to help retailers identify the root causes of excessive logistics costs and develop tailored, actionable improvement plans. Our expertise focuses on aligning systems, data, and business processes to support long-term logistics efficiency.
Key Benefits:
- Reduce freight and customs costs through better planning and execution
- Improve on-time delivery rates
- Enhance service level while lowering delivery costs
- Strengthen PO lifecycle management and minimize cost-per-unit inefficiencies
Reactivity instead of Proactivity
The Symptoms:
- Constantly playing catchup with ongoing demand changes
- No in-season course corrections or dynamic updates
- Rigid markdowns and procurement strategies
- Difficulty adapting to supply chain disruptions or demand changes
The Challenge:
Rigid supply chain processes make it hard to adapt to disruptions or changing consumer demands.
Solution:
We help you build proactive and resilient supply chain networks with AI-driven forecasting, data-supported planning, flexible lifecycle management, and user-friendly procurement tools.
Key Benefits:
- Quickly adapt to changing market trends and consumer needs
- Build resilience against supply chain disruptions
- Improve collaboration with suppliers and partners
- Scale and reconfigure operations without major overhauls
Unique Retailer Challenge
Your Unique Challenge:
Every retailer faces unique challenges that don’t fit standard categories. Your specific business model, customer base, or regional factors may create distinctive obstacles requiring tailored solutions.
Solution:
Our retail innovation lab works directly with your team to identify unique challenges and develop custom solutions using our modular technology platform, creating proprietary capabilities for your brand.
Key Benefits:
- Develop proprietary solutions for your specific challenges
- Create competitive advantages through unique capabilities
- Rapidly prototype and test innovative retail concepts
- Scale successful innovations across your organization