Napoleon IT: Auto Order System

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2023: Creation of an auto-order system

Napoleon IT, based on the low-code Goal Profit platform, has created an auto-order system that can reduce excess products by 25% and reduce the deficit by 15%. Auto-order was tested by one of the foreign companies. The presence of a low-code platform, on which the modules for price optimization and demand forecasting have already been implemented, has become possible to create a system within 6 months, when, as an implementation of such a system from scratch, it takes an average of 2-3 years. The developer announced this on December 5, 2023.

Auto-order is an automated system that allows trading enterprises to optimize their inventory and minimize the risks of lack of goods. Over the past 5 years, many different system suppliers have been represented on the Russian market, most of them foreign: Oracle, Relex, JDA, Symphony, SAP, SAS and others. But after the events of February 2022, all companies providing such solutions left the market.

In their place came companies that create solutions from scratch, which is a rather long process in time, as well as difficult and costly to implement. It will take 2-3 years to create an MVP solution from scratch, and for industrial implementation it will take several more years. If we take the leading retail networks, then the introduction of an auto-order system for them will require a team of 100 people and about 5 years of development.

Thanks to the low-code Goal Profit platform, Napoleon IT can launch and adapt the auto-order system for a specific customer's business within just 4-6 months. The platform is comparable in speed to a large open source analytical database, allowing hundreds of millions of records to be processed per second.

The implementation of the system helps to achieve the following positive effects:

• sales growth of 1-3%;
• reducing the deficit by 5-15%;
• reduction of overestimated reserves by 5-25%;
• increase of productivity and efficiency of users by 50-70%.

The auto-order functionality consists of two blocks. The first block is demand forecasting, which has the most modern machine learning models, prophet models, gradient boosting and classical forecasting models. These models allow you to build a forecast of regular and industrial scattering with high accuracy. The second unit is inventory replenishment management. Thanks to the low-code, it was possible to create a flexible inventory management system - it supports replenishment within any supply chain for a given planning horizon, taking into account the validity time of replenishment parameters. The following functionality is also available in the system: supplier card management, including management of delivery schedules, order receipt windows, restrictions, minimum order amount, and so on. Flexible control of supply chain parameters includes the logistics of the item, definition of chain constraints, multiplicity, traffic, minimum values, and amounts.

For employees who work with orders, an understandable and transparent workplace is implemented. It is enough for a specialist to work only on orders where there are some deviations that he needs to fail and make decisions, and not revise thousands of orders every day.

The auto-order system from Napoleon IT is suitable for both retail companies and FMCG brands and. distributors In addition, it can be relevant for other areas, for example, heavy. industries Now Napoleon IT is working to develop and improve the system and conduct pilot projects.

Our product aims to minimize inventory and maximize customer service, service level and product availability. This auto-order solution is a logical addition and is ideally integrated into our line of existing solutions: price optimization, assortment planning, commodity and financial planning. We have already seen great interest among dozens of different companies from retail and FMCG, - commented Konstantin Price, Commercial Director of Napoleon IT.