Elemica's Rail Car Replenishment Solution delivers innovative new capabilities that put you in full command of your rail car replenishment process. As part of Elemica's Customer Replenishment suite, the Rail Car Replenishment Solution provides visibility into critical inventory and planning information, allowing you to maintain optimal inventory levels and respond quickly and efficiently to changing customer demand patterns.
More Control. Better Utilization. Fewer Resources.
By integrating with your ERP system, this Elemica solution provides real-time access to rail car status and inventory data - and enables you to collaboratively share that information with replenishment partners - to proactively generate and manage orders.
With the Rail Car Replenishment Solution, you can easily identify rail cars "in transit" (on the rails) along with scheduled delivery times. Based on a single external feed (such as daily rail car status), you can automatically generate replenishment orders to achieve a specified number of active rail cars and schedule new shipments for rail cars that are "emptied and released."
These automated replenishment capabilities eliminate stock outs and emergency tank truck shipments to achieve new levels of efficiency and profitability - while dramatically improving customer service.
What can Elemica's Rail Car Replenishment Solution do for your business?
- Optimize inventory levels to significantly improve working capital
- Gain real-time access to critical rail car status information
- Perform historical shipment analysis
- Automate order based on target inventory specifications
- Reduce or eliminate stock outs and emergency shipments
- Enable CSRs to focus on relationship building rather than order management or problem solving
Automated Replenishment Capabilities Deliver Measurable Results
Elemica's Rail Car Replenishment Solution utilizes intelligent business rules and exception-based alerting capabilities to proactively manage replenishment, order fulfillment, eliminate errors, and notify customers regarding interruptions. As a result, your CSRs are empowered to focus on business issues and relationship building rather than order management and problem-solving.
The Elemica Customer Replenishment Solution:
- A modular hosted integration solution that requires no software installation and ensures easy implementation
- Streamlines processes, utilizes customer demand plans and real-time inventory feeds to generate planned orders
- Adapts quickly to your business environment and unique operational requirements
- Promotes process standardization and systems integration to improve operational efficiencies and utilization
The solution provides business users, service providers, and CSRs with many features, including:
- Visibility to critical planning information
- Easily configured screens
- E-mail alerts based on business rule exceptions
- Automated sales order entry
- Multiple safety stock rules
- Minimum and incremental shipping quantities
- Multiple storage tank aggregation
- Receiving, shipping, and forecast allocation calendars