The presence of multiple categories and SKUs brings market breadth, but also poses significant challenges to supply chain management. Traditional extensive management inevitably leads to high inventory, high costs, and low turnover. The solution lies in implementing a "data-driven flexible supply chain" and a "pyramid-layered product strategy".
Firstly, implement a pyramid-based management system for products. Divide all products into three categories: 1. Basic traffic-driven products: such as several classic herbal teas and major single-product solid beverages. These products have stable demand and adopt "make-to-stock" (MTS) production. Through historical sales data prediction, large-scale production is carried out to dilute costs and ensure *fast supply. 2. Strategically promoted products: such as seasonal flagship tonics and innovative plant-based beverages. These products adopt "assemble-to-order" (ATO) or "make-to-order" (MTO) models, with core raw materials stocked up, and ultimately flexible production based on market pre-sales or *orders, balancing inventory and response speed. 3. Test and rapid response products: such as new-flavor tablet candies and co-branded soft candies. These products adopt a "small batch, rapid response" model, using minimum viable products (MVP) to test the market, and quickly deciding whether to expand production or immediately terminate based on data feedback, greatly reducing the cost of trial and error.
Secondly, build a full-chain digital management system. From raw material procurement, production planning, workshop operations to finished product warehousing and sales logistics, all are integrated into ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and WMS (Warehouse Management System) for unified management. The system needs to synchronize sales data from online and offline channels in real time, predict future demand for each SKU through big data analysis, and automatically generate procurement and production recommendations. At the same time, utilize the system to set up inventory alerts, automatically mark slow-moving items, and trigger a promotional clearance mechanism. Through this refined operation, your company can transform its vast product line from a burden into a competitive advantage, achieve "tailored supply for each store", simultaneously improve inventory turnover to the industry-leading level, and free up valuable cash flow that was previously tied up.
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