SOLUTIONS
Retail Replenishment Planning
Ensure continuous product availability in stores
PartnerLinQ's Retail Replenishment solution is the engine of in-season availability, ensuring products remain continuously in stock to maximize sales and sustain high service levels. We replace static, backward-looking replenishment models with a dynamic, demand-driven, and predictive approach.
PartnerLinQ provides complete ecosystem that delivers on this vision through four core capability pillars:
End-to-End
Connectivity
Seamlessly integrate real-time POS and demand signals with the warehouse and transportation management systems to ensure smooth, continuous flow of goods.
Unified Data
Model
Replenishment decisions are based on the same accurate, localized data used for Assortment Planning, eliminating discrepancies and improving trust in the system's recommendations.
AI-Driven
Intelligence
Advanced replenishment models use demand sensing signals to dynamically adjust inventory triggers, maintaining agility in response to local demand spikes or promotions.
Composability & Flexibility
The modular architecture supports hybrid push/pull strategies, allowing the solution to blend initial allocation rules with ongoing demand signals for maximum agility.
Industries
- Retail & Consumer Goods
- Apparel & Footwear
- Speciality & Accessories
Features & Capabilities
PartnerLinQ provides a comprehensive set of features to ensure continuous product availability, low carrying costs, and high service levels throughout the selling season.
Demand-Driven Replenishment: Automatically trigger reorders and flow decisions directly from real-time POS data and sell-through trends, ensuring responsive inventory movement.
Min/Max & Safety Stock Control: Manage and monitor min/max policy rules and safety stock buffers to maintain availability and automate reorders when thresholds are breached.
Weeks of Supply (ROS) Balancing: Logic to ensure consistent inventory coverage across all locations, preventing overstocking in slow-moving areas and under-stocking in high-demand stores.
Supersession Logic: Automated management of replenishment transitions between new and phased-out SKUs, ensuring continuous shelf coverage without gaps.
Unified Inventory Visibility: Provide shared, real-time views of in-transit, warehouse, and store inventory levels to all stakeholders (Supply Chain, Store Ops).
Exception-Based Workflow: Configurable process queues highlight replenishment exceptions (e.g., potential stockouts or overages) for planner intervention, ensuring focus on critical tasks.
Transparent Policy Overrides: Support role-based overrides for replenishment parameters, with a clear audit trail for compliance and accountability.
Replenishment Compliance Metrics: Track key execution metrics such as Min/Max Replenishment Compliance % and Safety Stock Compliance %.
Loss & Cost Analysis: Monitor Stockout Reduction %, Inventory Carrying Cost Reduction %, and Weeks of Supply Accuracy (ROS adherence) to measure financial impact.
Demand Sensing Insights: The system interprets real-time demand sensing signals (e.g., local events, promotions) to provide immediate, actionable insights for dynamic replenishment adjustments.
Technology
A solution's technology vision must align with your organization’s future aspirations. PartnerLinQ’s modern, composable architecture ensures a planning solution that is not only powerful today but will scale to meet your evolving needs.
Cloud-Native & Multi-Cloud Architecture: Our scalable, cloud-native architecture is built for demand planning cycles, ensuring fast processing and seamless performance. We support multi-cloud environments, providing the flexibility to align with your organization’s cloud strategy.
Composability: Built on an API-first and microservices architecture, our platform provides the extensibility and flexibility to adapt to your unique needs, helping you achieve a truly composable enterprise.
Intelligent Data Applications Framework: Our framework allows you to easily onboard and enrich external data sets and factors with AI-based predictions, creating a richer input signal for your demand planning process and accelerating the evolution of your digital intelligence with ease
Extensive Prebuilt Adapters: We offer prebuilt, composable integration adapters for over 80 enterprise application platforms, including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, Manhattan Active Omni and Salesforce.
Seamless Data Flow: Our bi-directional integration capabilities with ERP, POS, Online Commerce, and WMS systems ensure a continuous flow of demand data for a single source of truth.
Trading Partner Network: Our native integration with your trading partner network allows for real-time data capture, ensuring your plans are always informed by the most current market signals.
Custom Algorithm & Model Development: The platform provides a unified environment for in-house development of custom algorithms and models, giving your teams the tools to continuously evolve the solution.
Third-Party Analytic Integration: Easily integrate third-party analytics and leverage public APIs to expand the planning models and connect with external data sources.
Industry Knowledge Graph and Data Models: ParnterLinQ’s industry data models and supply chain knowledge graph instantly enable out of the box reporting, search and planning capabilities to a whole new level of sophistication and extensibility.
User Experience
The user experience for Retail Replenishment is designed to automate routine decisions and surface exceptions, maximizing the productivity of inventory planners.
Exception Dashboard: A unified dashboard highlights all potential stockouts, overages, and non-compliant replenishment points, enabling planners to focus on high-priority alerts rather than routine checks.
Interactive Inventory Grids: Highly configurable grids show store inventory, safety stock, ROS, and suggested replenishment quantities in a single view, allowing for quick, manual adjustments when necessary.
Generative AI Insights: GenAI provides narrative summaries explaining why a replenishment order was triggered or adjusted (e.g., "Replenishment amount increased due to real-time POS sell-through spike following the weekend promotion").
Natural Language Query (NLQ): Use PartnerLinQ.IQ to quickly ask, "What is the safety stock compliance rate for the top 5 product categories this week?"
Autonomous Replenishment: The platform can automatically execute replenishment orders based on predefined policy rules and real-time triggers, freeing planners from manual order creation.
Smart Policy Adjustments: The system provides actionable recommendations for adjusting min/max or safety stock parameters based on observed forecast errors or demand volatility.
Implementation Advantage
Our agile implementation focuses on quickly configuring your replenishment policies, data flows, and exception rules for rapid value realization.
- Agile Business Process Mapping: We utilize prebuilt templates optimized for core replenishment strategies (min/max, ROS, safety stock), ensuring rapid configuration tailored to your product and channel requirements.
- Streamlined Data Onboarding: Integration capabilities accelerate the ingestion of critical, real-time data: POS transactions, inventory levels, and in-season forecasts, which are essential for demand-driven replenishment.
- Configurable Security & Control: Implementation ensures tight governance over replenishment of order generation, with role-based controls for policy setting and order approval.
- Expert Guidance & Self-Service: Our consulting team provides comprehensive enablement focused on training your teams to manage real-time variance reconciliation, policy setting, and reporting, fostering financial self-sufficiency.
End Result & Business Benefit
PartnerLinQ’s Replenishment solution delivers tangible results by maintaining optimal inventory flow and maximizing sales potential throughout the selling season.
- Maximized Service Levels: A significant Inventory Carrying Cost Reduction % is realized by optimizing safety stock buffers and balancing Weeks of Supply (ROS).
- Lower Operating Costs: Achieves high Stockout Reduction % and sustained Continuous Sell-through % by ensuring products are always available when customers want them.
- Dynamic Agility: Maintains agility throughout the season by dynamically adjusting to local demand spikes, promotions, and seasonal variability using demand sensing and hybrid push/pull models.
- Smooth Transitions: Supersession logic prevents gaps on the shelf during product transitions, ensuring a seamless experience for customers and store operations.
Pricing Model
PartnerLinQ provides overall business value and the industry specific cutting technology solutions for both current and future needs. We offer a modern pricing model that provides predictability and transparency, empowering your business to invest with confidence.
- Tiered, Usage-Based Pricing: Our model is simple and transparent. You only pay for the tier that matches your actual transaction volume each month, so you are only ever paying for what you use.
- Unified & Transparent Cost: Our unified pricing covers all core capabilities—including integration, data processing, the planning application, and the embedded AI—eliminating hidden costs.
- Simplified Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): By consolidating all key functions into a single, usage-based model, we eliminate the hidden costs of managing multiple vendors and disparate systems, ensuring your investment delivers both immediate and sustainable business value.
PartnerLinQ gives you the precision, agility, and control to turn seasonal volatility into a competitive advantage. Contact us to schedule a demo and see the difference.
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