Sterling Inventory Visibility Accelerator

INVENTORY CHALLENGES

Exceptional omni-channel customer experiences are hard to deliver—and impossible to achieve without accurate, real-time visibility into your global inventory. Most retailers agree that “inventory visibility across all channels” is the most important omni-channel capability.

Whether inventory is in a distribution center, a physical store, a vendor’s warehouse, or on a truck in transit, you cannot make reliable fulfillment promises to your customers without a clear and accurate inventory picture. This puts significant pressure on fulfillment and inventory leaders, who often have limited views of their inventory but are still expected to exceed customer expectations profitably.

HOW PUBLICIS SAPIENT CAN HELP

The Publicis Sapient team has deep expertise in omni-channel supply chain fulfillment and is a key partner in helping clients implement the IBM Sterling Inventory Visibility solution. Drawing on years of implementation experience, Publicis Sapient has developed an Inventory Visibility (IV) Accelerator that enables implementation of IV in just 6–8 weeks for any order management solution (e.g., Manhattan OMS, custom legacy OMS, etc.).

IBM’s Inventory Visibility solution addresses inventory challenges and delivers significant business benefits:

• Better customer experience
• Increased conversion rates
• Reduced safety stock and carrying costs, along with increased inventory turns
• Fewer stock-outs
• Fewer markdowns

The Inventory Visibility OMS Accelerator is designed to enable faster implementation cycles for any OMS client using the IBM Sterling IV Solution. This accelerator integrates with commerce, OMS, and other downstream systems, allowing the enterprise to harness the benefits of a single Inventory Visibility solution.

KEY ACCELERATOR BENEFITS

• Decreases IBM Inventory Visibility Solution implementation timeline for all OMS customers (including non-Sterling OMS customers)
• Covers approximately 80–90% of the interfaces required for the Inventory Visibility Solution
• Reduces integration development work and timeline by around 60–70%
• Built on open-source, microservice-based architecture to scale as needed
• Can be deployed on-premises or as a cloud solution

The IV Accelerator reduces the implementation timeline, accounts for all IV data requirements, and reduces additional integration development by 60%. Built as a microservice, cloud-native solution, it is designed for flexibility and scalability.

LET'S TALK

Discover how to evolve and optimize your supply chain—and how we can help your business. Contact us for a review of how our capabilities and IBM Sterling Supply Chain solutions can establish, augment, and extend your digital transformation.

JON PANELLA

jon.panella@publicissapient.com
PublicisSapient.com

SATYENDRA PAL

satyendra.pal@publicissapient.com
PublicisSapient.com

IV ACCELERATOR