Who are typical users of StockTrim?

StockTrim can help many different product based businesses. We've outlined below some common situations that our customers have faced, that we can help solve.

• Claire - small business owner changing products
  • Background:
    • Has built a successful skincare and homewares brand exclusively on Shopify
  • Current challenge:
    • Have several new product launches coming up, that are replacing old lines. Need to be able to work out how much to order?

  • How StockTrim can help:

    • In StockTrim you can link the sales history from an older sku that is been phased out to the new replacement sku. We use the historical data to then forecast sales of the new product. You can then place orders for new stock or ingredients as required.
• Alex - small business owner having to take over forecasting
  • Background:
    • Owns a small import and distribution company selling tools and safety equipment
  • Current challenge:
    • Until recently had a supply chain person doing forecasting but they have left and no-one understands their excel model
  • How StockTrim can help:
    • StockTrim provides clear forecasts and recommendations that are transparent to any user.

    • StockTrim support team is here to provide training as required, in addition to the built in guide and tutorial videos.

• James - supply chain team member grappling with new requirements
  • Background:
    • Does supply chain forecasting for a mdisize sports drink supplement company
  • Current challenge:
    • Key ingredient lead times have increased considerably, need to model this
    • Bill of Materials have been updated for key products so need to factor this in
    • Have been given ordering windows from some of our suppliers
    • Ceo wants to see how much stock is on order at any time
    • Needs to see what future reorder amounts are expected to be
  • How StockTrim can help:
    • StockTrim provides clear forecasts and recommendations that are transparent to any user
    • You can sync your data and update your parameters at any time with new data.
    • The Order Schedule can show what future expected quantities to order will be on a specified regular time interval e.g. 1st of each month, or every 30 days. 
       
• Pamela - finance manager stuck with a costly erp that is not easy to use, needs to prevent some costly out of stocks from being repeated
  • Background:
    • Runs finance team and supply chain for a large auto parts distributor
  • Current challenge:
    • The erp they use is cumbersome and expensive to unlock new features
    • Wants a simple forecasting solution to use as a sense check on their erp data and some api linked google docs
    • Recently found several key out of stock products had not been reordered as counts in the warehouse were wrong, now not sure how much to order, backorders are piling up.
  • How StockTrim can help:
    • StockTrim provides clear summaries of what is fast, medium and slow moving.
    • StockTrim can highlight immediate reorder requirements to meet expected future sales, factoring in supplier minimum order quantities, how the product is ordered e.g. how many units in a box, or on a pallet, and what minimum and maximum stock levels you want to apply.
    • If you have backorders, we will take that into account and build that into our reorder recommendation.