Acteos PPOS (procurement for point of sales)
is an advanced solution for customers demand forecast and point of sales / e-business procurement optimization.
With Acteos PPOS, companies switch from a simple centralized procurement flow to a point of sales driven and multilevel SCM organization (flowcasting). Forecasting point of sales activity not only improves forecasts, it boosts you whole organization.
ACTEOS PPOS offers to your point of sales :
- Continuous forecast and analyses improvement (POS, consumers)
- Smart and dynamic supply
- Inventory optimization and an improved service level
- Higher number of references
- Sales and turnover development
Features and benefits of Acteos PPOS Acteos PPOS in SaaS mode
Did you know ?
25 to 40 % Is the inventory level decrease after installing an expert procurement and forecasting software. Acteos PPOS allows accumulating these earnings at each level : warehouses, platforms, central and point of sales) (source : Acteos).
99% Is the QOS level observed after installing such solutions, and thus, without major impact on safety stocks. Moreover, a 50 % decrease of the shortages and inventory losses.
Satisfying your customers as your priority...
Breaks or overstocking, why choose ?
Acteos PPOS helps you to reduce noticeably in a few months your shortages and your point of sales inventory level. It provides to your whole supply chain the essential data to reduce costs and optimise activity !
Source : point de vente magazine (september 2010)
The key points
- Local consumer behavior analysis
- Self learning system, knowledge database
- Local variables and events identification
- Local constraints management (POS, area...)
- Simple and ergonomic interface
Acteos PPOS Scope
Acteos PPOS brings to distributors decisionmaking tools, orders and inventory management tools, flows information to drive your whole SCM. Combined with central forecasting, it brings accuracy and customer knowledge to a new level and at the same time benefits.
Forecasting performance
Acteos PPOS is based on a new forecast technology developed by Acteos after several years of research :
- pre-treatment and cleaning of the data
- accurate sales forecasts in short, medium and long term
- calculation of optimal safety stocks forecasts based on the required service level
- exceptional events detection, automatic and daily tuning of the engine
- research the right aggregation and forecasting level for products with low turnover (family, range, area, suppliers...)/li>
- smart selection of best algorithms and models.
Main features
- Orders pruposal optimization
- Manual or computer aided validations
- Help for decision making / controling and Business Intelligence tools
- Events and phenomena / knowledge database (Promotions, marketing shares)
- Natural integration with existing related solutions W MS, TMS, POS Backoffice, central procurement (APS) and the whole range of Acteos products and modules.
Managed constraints
Acteos PPOS is a complete solution designed with and for the retailing users. It takes into account :
- multi-site / multi-channel context
- storage capacity and store surface
- products lead time (suppliers orders, deliveries, stock cards)
- advanced management calendar store
- facing, service level, point of sales strategy
- explanatory variables correlated to sales (weather, economic context, promotions and operations...).
Results control
Intuitive interfaces allow the buyers, forecasters, to follow the forecasts, the orders, and the impact of every phenomenon and event on sales, QOS, and stocks.
Simple to use
The screens visible by the POS teams are restricted to minimum actions of control and validation (exceptions, critical articles, emergencies, promotions) in an ergonomic and user-friendly interface.
These daily actions take only few minutes for the user, (remaining actions are automated by the smart engine).
A simple and intuitive interface
Validation of proposals produced by the control groups of priorities.
High technology
Acteos PPOS is the first product in the Acteos Generation new range, based on the state of the art in technological and open standards :
- Full J2E Techno (multi-application server : Oracle, JBoss...)
- Multi-database (Oracle, PostgreSQL)
- Web 2.0 multi-browser interface (CSS, AJAX)
- Available in SaaS mode (rent and use the product on the WEB).
