Direct Store Delivery Solutions

Direct store delivery (DSD) has historically been looked at as a hybrid problem since it consists of both the store replenishment and computer assisted ordering, inventory management as well as the full downstream deployment, logistics, manufacturing, and raw material requirements.

A typical DSD Sales Representative/Merchandiser or Driver today is manually inspecting the shelf, managing inventory, manually calculating a forecast and manually creating orders. This needs to change!

A good DSD solution, if managed properly, can have a significant advantage over a manual process or even a traditional retailer-driven replenishment system since a company representative is constantly reviewing the shelf. This provides an opportunity to not only manage inventory better but also to capture what else is happening in the category. Competitor promotions, category drag, new products, etc. can be captured to create patterns to better determine demand and capture inventory to create more accurate orders. This information can then be used to automatically create pull orders not just to the store but all the way downstream to manufacturing and even to the raw material and packaging vendors.

One Network’s Direct Store Delivery solutions is unique. One Network provides the only multi-party, multi-echelon, demand driven, store replenishment, order management, inventory management, logistics, fulfillment and supply chain technology solution in the market today.

Through the use of our REST services, we can take input from a device, create orders and hand them back to the company representative in charge of ordering.

In order to meet the needs of the rapid DSD environments, we support the following capabilities that are unique to One Network:

Multi-Party, Many-to-Many, Multi-Echelon Network

One Network is a community of companies that can seamlessly connect to one another to create a shared focus on satisfying customer demand at the lowest possible cost. Our technology is offered as a network service (SaaS ) solution and therefore enables visibility and data flow across the multiple parties and echelons in your supply network… in real time.

The solution can embrace existing demand signal repositories (where made available) or can be deployed using its own data collected from handhelds or other means. The service produces store level SKU-level demand and replenishment plans, creates orders and manages inventory. These plans then calculate order forecasts and intelligent orders downstream though the value chain to all participants in real time.

What does this mean for you?

Essentially, higher service levels, lower costs and greater profits for all parties in the network.

Continuous, Incremental Planning & Execution Across Your Value Network

Our many-to-many, multi-echelon network enables real-time sense-and-respond collaboration among all of your value chain participants.  So, whether you’re the route sales rep, a merchandiser, DC manager, outsource manufacturer, logistics solutions provider, supplier or any other member of a supply network, One Network instantly updates you and your systems with demand or supply changes and instantly flows the new plans across your entire supply network… from the retailer shelf to your suppliers.

Traditional planning tools only optimize their own operations and are limited to planning at best once a day. For planning to be effective in a fast moving supply chain, it must move at the speed of the execution system, which moves continuously, not once a day. One Network is the only technology that plans continuously and incrementally to drive effective plans and adjusts them in near real time for maximum results.

Real-Time Sense and Respond

As a true multi-party, multi-echelon network, the solution offers unparalleled visibility for all participants based on their individual perspective. Not only do all participants in the value network (buyers, suppliers, logistics or DC personnel, etc.) have real time visibility into the data needed to do their jobs, but they can also see the impact their decisions have on all organizations and value chain participants.

The demand/supply models are temporal and therefore can look to the future and sense sense problems before they occur. The issues can be seen through robust analytics and or alerts, can be based on any data in the system and can be triggered and made visible anywhere in the supply chain and to any participant.

Different from simple visibility tools this service responds and resolves issues automatically not only creating plans but actually performing the execution service necessary to resolve the problem. This provides the worlds first and only multi-party, multi-echelon sense and respond service.

Scalable and Extensible with Accelerated Time to Value

Our cloud-based solution is scalable and extensible, so you can choose to embrace or replace your existing systems.  There are over 29,000 companies currently connected on our cloud-based network, so our customers can immediately leverage all trading partners, significantly lowering implementation costs and sharing them across the network. So, implementation is quick and painless.  And, our secure cloud platform equals no expensive hardware to procure and maintain.

Another unique offering is that we can configure your solution any way you’d like:  With our industry-first Developer Network, the network services and embraced legacy systems can be configured to meet your current business processes or allow you to re-engineer new ones. All solutions are built using this robust set of developer tools.

The One Network solutions have proven themselves to drive best-in-class results that are game changing.

One Network Results for DSD:

• In Store IN Stocks – 99.+% including promotions
• Driver/Sales Rep time reductions – 25% Due to automated ordering
• Chain Wide Inventory – Shelf to Factory – Reduced 25%

Demand Driven Supply Network Solutions for Direct Store Delivery DSD

• Intelligent Demand
• Intelligent Logistics
• Intelligent Supply
• Intelligent VAN
• Developer Network