EWR Plus®

« Offer an efficient VMI service to the satisfaction of your customers »

Shared replenishment is a collaborative procedure whereby customer needs are calculated by the supplier. The calculation is performed within the framework of a co-operation agreement based on stock levels and consumption figures transmitted by the customer.

Since it was rolled out, EWR Plus® has become the tool of reference in the Shared Replenishment Management market.

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The solution

EWR Plus enables suppliers to:

  • Increase the availability of goods
  • Reduce the level of stocks held by customers
  • Optimise on the use of transportation capacities
  • Comply with the requirements of a WMI logistics co-operation agreement

Advantages

  • Solution designed exclusively to run the VMI
  • Flexible and robust
  • 400 installations across 25 nations / multi-language
  • Meets regional requirements
  • Integrated decision taking assistance tool
  • Solution available under licence or through the hosted system
  • Internet version for a limited WMI activity
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Functionalities

  • Automatic integration of product and customer information
  • Calculation of warehouse or points of sale requirements taking into account:
    - Available stocks
    - Calculated or imported consumption forecasts
    - Awareness of future requirements (promotions, new products, etc.)
    - Activity schedules (preparation, routing, offloading, etc.)
  • Optimisation against the criteria of:
    - Economic quantities
    - Capacity of transportation resources
    - Goods-in and storage capacity
  • Validation of proposals:
    - Display and modification of results
    - Recording and exporting
    - Decision analysis
    - Performance indicators
    - Display of audit trails
    - Postponed analysis of flows and stocks
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Technical characteristics

  • SGBD Oracle
  • Single or multi-station
  • 3 third parties, TSE or Citrix
  • Windows or Unix

EWR Plus® is a registred trademark of Generix Group

Referencies

  • 3AGROUPE SASU
  • THOMSON FRANCE
  • SOUFFLET ALIMENTAIRE

Unilever

The number of countries in Europe so equipped was increasing at a fast pace while the proportion of sales managed in local EWR Plus systems was forging ahead (for instance, 50-55% of sales with VMI in France). And in 2005, Unilever decided to secure its European VMI system.

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Saint Amand Mineral Waters Group

Saint Amand Mineral Waters group exploits five mineral water and three mountain spring water sources in French Ariège, Hautes-Alpes and Alpes de Haute Provence regions.
Saint-Amand chose an Influe brand solution provided GENERIX Group, EWR Plus, to implement a vendor managed inventory with its retail industry customers. Declared goals: to reduce the inventory and transport costs and improve the customer service ratio.

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« Run mutualized replenishment management with EWR MP »

EWR MP , a transportation and replenishment mutualization solution established between a group of manufacturers, meets the growing demand by distributors for a reduction in stocks.

Benefits

Allows suppliers to deliver more often in smaller quantities while reducing transportation costs.

The mutualized approach

  1. Multi-supplier replenishment groups are established in the hosted environment of EWR Plus.
  2. The solution calculates the warehouse requirement in such a way as to achieve a full load with all the products of the group.
  3. Every manufacturer has access to their own data and validates their WMI order proposal lines.
  4. A neutral arbiter can intervene if required, the latter forms an integral part of the EWR service MP.
  5. That Service Provider takes charge, if required, of organizing the grouped (consolidated) order delivery at the consignee's.