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We provide on-shelf availability montioring and alerting instrument (OSA), a solution to optmize wareshousing, logistics, and replenishment, and a solution for sales and operations planning. These are our core products required for any retailer/manufacturer. To be completely honest and transparent, we aren't the full-stack SCM vendor. Being a small team, we focus on the most crucial SCM problems and provide the best-of-breed solutions at great prices. In our "Lab", we are currently working on POG generation and, overall, we can develop a custom SCM solution that fits your needs having a deep research and SCM background. The SCM software development / consulting rate will be very reasonable due to the reasons provided above. We are afraid of working with the startup. What if you go out of business? Our parent company, FORECSYS (FORecasting and REcognition SYStems) has been on the market for 16 years (since 2000). We have a constant influx of new employees from the partner research universities. Despite a significantly lower prices, our revenue allow us to continue innovating and grow our business (e.g. expansion to the USA with our market-validated SaaS solutions). How long will it take to see a solution in action? For On-Shelf Availability 360, the first results could be seen as soon as four days after you sign the contract and provide all necessary data. However, based on our experience the process usually takes around two-three weeks because of the data standardization work required on the client's side. For Computer-Assisted Ordering & Replenishment and for S&OP, the solution deployment time depends on the client's data quality and specific project needs/scope. Based on our experience, it might take three to seven months. How many people do I have to allocate for a pilot project and evaluate a solution? For On-Shelf Availability 360, it will require 32 hours max to prepare the historical data in the right format and send them to us for analysis. If you don't monitor OSA now and want to test its accuracy, you can run manual OSA measurements for a few days and compare the results. For two other solutions, we budget one full-time emloyee-month from your side. While preparing the solution for the deployment, we need to commnucate with Supply Chain, IT, Merchandising and Data people. Please see the financial model and our assumptions in the Value Calculator. As in the case of On-Shelf Availability 360, you can provide historical sales data and in this case we will prepare a report within three-four business days. How much revenue/profit can we make? Please see the financial models that we developed in the Value Calculator. The total effect from OOS reduction by 4 basis points is extra $12M in revenue recouped from lost sales. The cost reduction via automation and optimization with the help of computer-assisted ordering and replenishment reaches $77M for a chain with 100 stores. S&OP helps decrease labor costs on planning by 4 times and eliminate planning errors, which could be as high as 25% of the company yearly revenue. All numbers are provided for a chain with 100 supermarket stores. I haven't heard about on-shelf availability (OSA) before. Is it very critical for our business? Yes, top 100 retail companies do monitor OSA and according to the studies from HBS, Stanford, LBS and other top universities and retail alliances, it is consistently among top-3 retail problems. Walmart, having the largest supply chain in the world, defined it as the most important problem several years ago. How can I act on the On-Shelf Availability 360's data shown in the daily reports? Measurements don't make us money.