Case Study: Zebbies Lighting achieves smarter inventory planning and reduced capital spend with Sage Inventory Advisor

Zebbies Lighting - Customer Case Study

Zebbies Lighting, a South African importer and retailer of lighting products with 18 branches and over 57 years in business, faced a labor-intensive re-ordering process using Sage Evolution and spreadsheets that left their main warehouse repeatedly understocked or overstocked and made planning (for events like Chinese New Year supplier closures) and optimal container fills impossible. To address these challenges they turned to Sage Inventory Advisor.

Sage Inventory Advisor was implemented alongside Sage Evolution to provide replenishment planning at both the distribution center and store level, plus an easy-to-use dashboard to flag excess, slow-moving or at-risk items. The solution helped Zebbies Lighting optimize store stock levels, reduce transportation costs, lower capital spend, improve fill rates and customer satisfaction, and free up capital for other projects—while enabling proactive action on the top problem items before they became issues.

Zebbies Lighting

Michael Rowland

Senior Inventory Planner