SAS Intelligent Inventory Management

What SAS Intelligent Inventory Management is

SAS Intelligent Inventory Management is a web-based suite for retail and consumer packaged goods companies planning product sizes, purchases, and inventory. Its components, SAS Size Optimization and SAS Inventory Optimization, use historical sales data, analytics, and machine learning to develop size, demand, and inventory insights. The size tools create demand-based profiles, handle event scenarios, identify active size ranges, and support multiple hierarchy levels. Products can be grouped by hierarchy or attributes, with new products matched to attribute profiles. Pack recommendations can account for usage and variation constraints, bulk combinations, supply-chain costs, and efficiencies. Inventory planning calculates stock needs across the supply chain and supports replenishment policies based on lead times, costs, and service-level targets. Users can compare planning scenarios, examine proposal costs, and simulate policy effects in single- or multi-echelon networks. The product is priced on request, and its page invites visitors to request a demo. SAS says the Viya version can be deployed on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services and requires SAS Common Data Store. From release 2024.04, SAS Intelligent Inventory Optimization is no longer available on the SAS Viya platform.