🌐 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
🔄 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