Nexgenix helps you optimize your VMI processes through a complete understanding of what's happening at the retail shelf at the store-SKU level to optimize consumer sales, while ensuring minimum lost-sales and returns.

"The Bottom Line: Consumer products manufacturers must centrally manage all demand signal data, including POS, to create a Demand-Driven Supply Network (DDSN) that improves demand visibility to reduce stock-outs by more than half and increase Perfect Order performance by 17%."

At a rapid pace, leading consumer products companies are embracing Nexgenix's IX VMI solution to enable their 21st century VMI partnerships. Retail partners expectations of VMI partners is growing daily, exceeding traditional retail systems capabilities of effectively managing retail inventory. Nexgenix's IX VMI solution provides you the capabilities to ensure that you are maximizing both your and your retail partners' gross margin on the total VMI investment costs.

No other solution provides the ability to manage retail inventory at the store-SKU level, with the intelligence and flexibility to rapidly respond to consumer POS and react appropriately through decisions around changing the planogram, changing minimum display inventory, or any other business decision to maximize consumer sales. Nexgenix's IX Solution provides broad capabilities and inherent flexibility to provide you with a 100% business process compliant solution to differentiate your VMI capabilities:

• Advanced Data Interfaces. Provides the flexibility to acquire POS data from retailer partners via EDI, XML, FTP, Email, Web based systems, etc.. So that you can painless acquire the requisite data, view and clean the data and enter into VMI relationships quickly and easily.
  
  
• Transactional Inventory Management. Provides a real-time, highly scalable transactional inventory management solution to manage inventory at the retail shelf understanding the complexities of integrating multiple views of inventory, yours, the retailers, merchandisers, etc.
  
  
• Advanced Planogram Maintenance and Replenishment. The heart of the system, the ability to 'close the loop' on the VMI process and intelligently manage at the store - SKU level through dynamic groupings of stores and SKUs based on attributes.
  
  
• Advanced Forecasting. Provides the state of art forecasting techniques to allow you to forecast at any level, top-down, bottoms-up or middle out. Complete with an understanding of forecasting both slow-moving, and short-lifecycle products.
  
  
• New Release Planning. The ability to create forecasts and initial allocations and shipments through a bottoms-up analysis of comparable product sales. Complete workflow to determine appropriate comparable product through attribute matching, fully interactive forecast generation, and initial shipment and allocation creation with complete with fixturing and packaging constraints, and full top-down and bottoms-up interactivity.
  
  
• Space Planning and Category Management. Puts the power in your hands to understand and manage the performance of products on the retail shelf. Gives you complete configurable actionable performance reports to drive product substitution, and optimal assortments.