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In recent years, retailers have invested millions of dollars to update supply chain systems to enable them to better compete. At the same time, these same retailers are expected to carry an increasing number of products, creating a significantly more complex process for tuning inventory to consumer demand.

Today, a new breakthrough in forecasting technology, modeling, database management and information processing is bringing the dream of the optimal replenishment system to reality.

Introducing the Market6 Demand Chain Information Factory (DCIF) system.

While typical enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can cost millions, take years to implement and require extensive human resource support for their implementation, the Market6 DCIF is extremely affordable. Designed to work within existing retailer infrastructure, the Market6 system works in tandem with legacy processes, and expands to meet the requirements of supply chain process as it evolves.

Key components of the Market6 DCIF solution for retail ordering are:

Store Item Level Forecast – Self-correcting forecasts with daily item-by-store data uniquely position DCIF orders as the most accurate available anywhere.

Perpetual Inventory – Incorporating a powerful anomaly detection algorithm to guide users, the DCIF makes perpetual inventory practical and affordable.

Demand Factors – Only DCIF can so affordably and quickly create and maintain the hundreds of thousands of demand models – reflecting both in-store and external demand factors – to proactively and accurately assess upcoming demand and make adjustments accordingly.

The founders of Market6 have been providing thought leadership in the area of forecasting customer demand based on real world information challenges in supermarkets for over 25 years.