Case Study: Ackermans cuts excess stock 10% and lifts sales 5% with ToolsGroup Demand Planning & Forecasting

ToolsGroup Provides Visibility Into Premier Retailer’s Stock Mix

Ackermans, a long-established South African retailer with more than 450 stores, was struggling with regular stock-outs, inaccurate style-level forecasting, and a disjointed legacy replenishment process that left stores with the wrong size mix and planners reacting too late. To gain bottom-up and top-down visibility into inventory and move off its legacy system, Ackermans selected ToolsGroup’s Demand Planning and Forecasting solution.

ToolsGroup implemented its demand planning and replenishment tool to deliver SKU-level visibility, standardize forecasting, and tie demand to net requirements and supplier lead times, improving collaboration between planners and buyers and streamlining ordering. As a result of the ToolsGroup rollout Ackermans reported a 10% decrease in excess stock, a 5% increase in product sales, reduced stock-outs, better procurement of correct quantities, and stabilized in-store availability.

Ackermans

Bouwer Strydom

Planning Manager, Children’s Special Business Unit Planning Manager, Children’s Special Business Unit