The GAINS Australia advantage
With its origin as an operations research consulting tool in the early 1970s, GAINS has had more than three decades of focused effort invested in its development. Development input has come from recognised international and domestic experts in fields such as academia, operations research, advanced mathematics and industry best practice. Importantly, the effectiveness of GAINS has been rigorously time-tested and proven over the years. The amount of specialist, proven knowledge that GAINS embodies is unparalleled in the industry.
Many systems claim to ‘optimise’, but this is largely misunderstood. GAINS is a true optimisation system – it delivers a set of proven management controls that consistently deliver optimal results. GAINS optimises the complex relationships between customer service levels, inventory investment, operating costs, demand plan error, and supply variability. Key benefits derived from GAINS' optimisation capabilities include:
Some of GAINS' proprietary algorithms include:
Differentiators
Why the GAINS methodology is superior to alternative approaches:
GAINS enables management by exception and provides powerful, fact-based decision support at the strategic, tactical and operational levels. The benefit to our Australian clients is a sophisticated, easy to use tool that consistently and rapidly delivers benefit.
Read about what GAINS Australian and global clients have to say.
Many systems claim to ‘optimise’, but this is largely misunderstood. GAINS is a true optimisation system – it delivers a set of proven management controls that consistently deliver optimal results. GAINS optimises the complex relationships between customer service levels, inventory investment, operating costs, demand plan error, and supply variability. Key benefits derived from GAINS' optimisation capabilities include:
- Optimised Global Inventory
- Maximised Return on Assets (ROA)
- Improved Service Levels
- Increased revenue and total profit
Some of GAINS' proprietary algorithms include:
- Inventory Policy Optimisation algorithms to precisely achieve targeted service levels by comprehensively managing sources of planning error. These include: demand plan/forecast error, lead-time variation, supply yield, and optimal ordering cycles
- Service Level Optimisation algorithms that automatically determine service levels uniquely for each item to achieve an aggregate target while minimising or maximising a business objective, (e.g. minimised total cost, minimum inventory, specific inventory turns target, maximum profit, etc.)
- Sourcing Optimisation algorithms that determine the supplier(s) that provide the lowest-total-cost supply, including solving for the trade-off of unit cost, purchase minimums, and lead time
- Network Flow Optimisation algorithms that determine which supply route provides the lowest-total-cost supply, considering lead times, minimums (line-item and PO-level), handling, and transportation costs
- Multi-echelon/Indenture Stocking Policy Inventory Optimisation algorithms that determine whether or not to stock an item and at what service level. These solve for interdependencies among locations and/or within the bill-of-materiel (BOM) to devise postponement strategies and address customer expectations to minimise cost or maximise profit
Differentiators
Why the GAINS methodology is superior to alternative approaches:
- Provides unbiased and accurate demand pattern recognition
- Provides superior variability management to meet Service Level goals
- Powerful algorithms optimise a complete set of costs to maximise profit
- Increases plan accuracy by integrating leading indicator information and market knowledge
- Synchronises planning including resources/capacity & sales plans
- Offers new level of automation and intelligence in planning
- Value evidenced by extremely-high GAINS customer retention rates
GAINS enables management by exception and provides powerful, fact-based decision support at the strategic, tactical and operational levels. The benefit to our Australian clients is a sophisticated, easy to use tool that consistently and rapidly delivers benefit.
Read about what GAINS Australian and global clients have to say.