1. Real Time Inventory
November 2016

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4. Why the Real-Time Inventory Accelerator?
Virtually every company in every industry has some sort of inventory to run it’s business such as:
Retail: Customers buy inventory directly
Healthcare: Clinicians need Equipment, Medical Supplies, Medications, Beds, MRI Machines etc.
Utilities/Telcos: Vehicles and Parts for Field Service Technicians, specialized equipment for repairs
Knowledge workers: Need IT Equipment such as laptops, mobile devices, projectors, s/w licenses
Delivering products and services to customers requires some type of inventory when and where it’s needed
Out-of-stock scenarios impact customer service and lost opportunity cost to sell goods
Overstock scenarios waste precious enterprise capital. Excess inventory is often perishable.
Inventory tracking is spread across lots of disparate and often manual systems with little or no visibility

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Value Drivers
System wide Availability Visibility
Across all channels: mobile, website, store, partners
Enable contextual conversations across all channels
Any channel purchase capabilities with various delivery/pickup options
Fulfillment Optimization
Fulfill orders from any location
Dynamic Inventory Replenishment
Predict replenishment of products before they go out of stock
Inventory Reallocation
Accurate Financial Reporting of Inventory
Forecast more efficiently future financials across all channels
Reduce markdowns costs and Inventory write-offs
Anticipate emerging trends or forecast behavior and act quickly
Increase upsell, decrease churn
Increase marketing effectiveness with better targeted offer
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6. Targeted Use: Real Time Inventory for Retailers
Inventory visibility across multiple channels
Real-Time, Business Rules, Predictive Analytics…
Applicable in Retail
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7. Success Story: Real Time Inventory Visibility – Retail Industry
Problem: Inability to provide accurate view of inventory across all locations in real-time across all channels.
Solution: TIBCO’s Fast Data Platform provides the ability to have real-time visibility into inventory to all channels for both customers and associate so that they now have ability to browse products using mobile, kiosk, website or in store to check for availability and providing option to be able to pick up in store or ship from any fulfillment location
Results: Providing the consumer with true omni-channel experience by allowing them to purchase an item from any channel and giving them delivery/shipment option either in store pick up or shipping from multiple fulfillment locations
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8. Success Story: Fulfillment Optimization – Retailers
Problem: Increase shipping cost associated with various delivery methods (overnight, 2 day, same day) and being able to stay in competition with online retailers which have many warehouses across country and at the same time meet or exceeding customer experience and satisfaction .
Solution: Use the Real-Time Inventory Accelerator to provide accurate visibility into inventory locations and quantities on hand
Results: Orders being placed from any channel are evaluated in real-time. The accelerator provides excellent inventory visibility. It can easily be further enhanced to apply business rules for processes such as promotional offers or fulfillment optimization.
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9. Real Time Inventory At-a-Glance
FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS
BusinessEvents Rules
Calculates inventory via Business rules and Decision tables.
Correlates events and data across real-time as well as historical streams to anticipate opportunities and threats - leveraging in-memory event enabled data grid.
2. Live Datamart: Operational Analytics, UI, Alerts
Analyzes and visualizes information in motion, rather than information at rest.
Visualize inventory in real-time
Identify key business moments and act on them as they happen
5. BusinessWorks: Integration
Automate data management and business processes for real time information flow between people and systems

10. Real Time Inventory Architecture