Overview
AGR is a comprehensive inventory optimization platform that automates demand planning, replenishment, and enables supplier collaboration across all items and locations. The system combines advanced forecasting, multi-echelon logic, and configurable business rules to drive optimal stock levels and operational efficiency.
Demand Planning & Forecasting
🔮 Demand Forecasting - Inventory IQ
Automatic 14-month forecast for every item-location combination
Daily calculations with best-fit model selection /by applying 5 statistical models, measuring & selecting the one with the lowest forecast error)
Supports diverse demand patterns (seasonal, intermittent, trend-based)
✏️ Demand Planning Adjustments - Inventory IQ
Users can make manual overrides to the forecast for selected time periods
Ability to add incremental demand on top of system forecasts
Supporting promotions and/or market changes
🧩 Demand Planning Flexibility - Planning Pro
Planning at multiple aggregation levels:
📦 Item
📍 Location
🚚 Vendor
🗂️ Item group
👥 Customer group planning - Planning Pro
item-level, channel, forecasting & planning
🔗 Multi-Echelon Demand Planning - Inventory IQ
Distribution demand for the next 14 months for main warehouse(s)
Daily calculations based on internal replenishment needs
Considers:
📈 location demand
📦 location based stock
⏱️ warehouse lead times
📅 sub-location order schedules/calendar
🏭 BOM (Bill of Materials) Demand - Order Pro
Forecast driven by sales of finished goods / parent item.
Component demand calculated using BOM recipes
Considers:
⏱️ Production/assembly lead times
📊 Safety stock, stock on hand, replenishment period, minimum stock
🚚 Supplier lead times taken into account on component replenishment needs
Inventory Optimization
🛡️ Safety Stock Calculations
Automatic demand uncertainty per item - Order Pro
Calculated based on forecast variability over:
⏱️ Lead time
🔁 Replenishment cycle
Dynamically scaled in line with service level targets and ABC classification
Additional Safety stock types - Inventory IQ
📦 Safety stock (units)
📅 Safety stock (days)
🔠 ABC Classification
Importance classification based on:
📦 Sold quantity
💰 Revenue
🧾 Sales lines
📊 Cost of goods sold
📈 Margin
💲 Cost price
Replenishment & Ordering
➡️ Orders can be manual during the day or fully automated and transferred overnight to the ERP
🧮 Order Calculations - Inventory IQ
📦 Regular Stock Items:
Demand (Lead Time + Replenishment Cycle)
Safety Stock
Minimum Display
Open Sales Orders
– Stock on Hand
– Incoming Orders
📄 Special Order Items:
Open Sales Orders
– Stock on Hand
– Incoming Orders
🔄 Allocation & Distribution - Inventory IQ
Push stock to internal locations
Allocation based on:
📦 Stock levels
📈 Location demand
🔢 Order multiples
📅 Replenishment Automation - Order Pro
Scheduled order calendars
🔗 Multi-echelon transfer order adjustments based on warehouse stock availability
📦 Order Constraints - Order Pro
Optimization with real-world constraints:
🚢 Full Container Load (FCL)
💰 Minimum order value
🏭 Supplier constraints
⚙️ Order Logic Settings - Order Pro
📆 Order period
📥 Sales order inclusion rules
📉 Backlog handling during stockouts
🔢 Rounding rules:
Order multiples
Threshold-based rounding
Supplier Collaboration
📊 Supplier Management - Insights Pro
Lead time analysis & variability tracking
Supplier performance dashboards
📅 Purchase Planning - Insights Pro
12-month forward-looking purchase plans
Based on:
📈 Forecasted demand
📦 Current stock & incoming orders
⏱️ Lead times & replenishment cycles
🔢 MOQ & order multiples
➡️ Exportable to Excel for supplier collaboration
The 12-month Purchase Plan horizon is a fixed limit and cannot be extended through settings. The Forecast Horizon setting (which controls how far ahead the statistical forecast is calculated) has no effect on the Purchase Plan horizon. To plan purchases beyond 12 months, use Sales Plans to enter values manually.
🔄Lifecycle Management - Inventory IQ
Identification of new and obsolete items
Link new items to predecessors
🪦 Dead item logic:
No forecast after configurable inactivity period (default 12 months)
Control options:
🔓 Open/close items
📅 Set forecast end dates for seasonal products - Planning Pro
Insights, Monitoring & Reporting
🚨 Exception Management - Inventory IQ
Alerts for:
⚠️ Stockout risks
📦 Overstock situations
📈 Demand changes
❗ High uncertainty
🚚 Undelivered orders
📊 Operational Dashboards - Inventory IQ
Real-time stock health overview
Daily exception monitoring
📈 Performance Analytics - Insights Pro
Power BI integration for KPI tracking
Supports continuous performance management and decision making
Key Benefits
⚙️ End-to-end automation of planning and replenishment
📉 Reduced stockouts and excess inventory
🎯 Improved forecast accuracy and service levels
📊 Data-driven supplier and inventory decisions
🌍 Scalable across multi-location and complex supply chains