Case Study: Travis Perkins achieves optimized inventory and improved product availability with SAS supply-chain analytics

SAS helps optimize inventory to meet customer demand

Travis Perkins, the UK’s leading builders’ merchant with four divisions, 2,000 branches, more than 200,000 SKUs and £/€/$7.8 billion in annual sales, needed a better way to stock bulky items in limited store space. Most customers buy in-branch and expect immediate availability, but inventory decisions were driven by spreadsheets and a legacy system that made it slow and difficult for category managers to identify which products each location should carry.

Working with CoreCompete, Travis Perkins implemented SAS Data Integration Studio and SAS Visual Analytics to centralize sales, branch, supplier and customer data and deliver purpose-built dashboards. Category managers now get granular demand insight to optimize in-branch assortments, improve product availability, standardize metrics, sharpen supplier analysis and lift sales—resulting in faster, more informed stocking decisions and a better customer experience.

Travis Perkins

Peter Brewer

Supply Chain Development Manager