Forecasting and Supply Chain Management

Beacon provides demand forecast and supply chain services that greatly enhances the predictability of future business events and helps to optimize the supply chain efficiency. Beacon’s web based forecasting & supply chain tool takes the historical data, tracks current sales & order trends and generates future production curve in conjunction with available inventory stocks. In order to gauge the accuracy of forecast and do the educated judgmental overrides, Beacon has deployed best talent in its enterprise who provides leadership on flow planning and perpetual supply chain management. With a complete web based visibility, Beacon Services accelerate the responsiveness against sudden shifts in demand chain management.

Forecasting and Supply Chain Management

Beacon provides demand forecast and supply chain services that greatly enhances the predictability of future business events and helps to optimize the supply chain efficiency. Beacon’s web based forecasting & supply chain tool takes the historical data, tracks current sales & order trends and generates future production curve in conjunction with available inventory stocks. In order to gauge the accuracy of forecast and do the educated judgmental overrides, Beacon has deployed best talent in its enterprise who provides leadership on flow planning and perpetual supply chain management. With a complete web based visibility, Beacon Services accelerate the responsiveness against sudden shifts in demand chain management.

Demand Forecast & Supply Chain Management-Market Intelligence

Beacon’s forecast management is done in close collaboration with customer relationship. Beacon’s international teams establish close liaisons with customer’s buying groups in order to solicit future marketing strategies affecting demand pattern. Such frequent liaisons provide updates on retail market trends, retailer’s internal policies (promotional mark down, coverage, uplift, de-lift, OTB etc.), and finally helps to align the operational plans to customer’s objectives.

Demand Forecast & Supply Chain Management-Market Intelligence

Beacon’s forecast management is done in close collaboration with customer relationship. Beacon’s international teams establish close liaisons with customer’s buying groups in order to solicit future marketing strategies affecting demand pattern. Such frequent liaisons provide updates on retail market trends, retailer’s internal policies (promotional mark down, coverage, uplift, de-lift, OTB etc.), and finally helps to align the operational plans to customer’s objectives.

Demand Forecast & Supply Chain Management-Market Intelligence

Beacon’s forecast management is done in close collaboration with customer relationship. Beacon’s international teams establish close liaisons with customer’s buying groups in order to solicit future marketing strategies affecting demand pattern. Such frequent liaisons provide updates on retail market trends, retailer’s internal policies (promotional mark down, coverage, uplift, de-lift, OTB etc.), and finally helps to align the operational plans to customer’s objectives.

Demand Forecast & Supply Chain Management-Market Intelligence

Beacon’s forecast management is done in close collaboration with customer relationship. Beacon’s international teams establish close liaisons with customer’s buying groups in order to solicit future marketing strategies affecting demand pattern. Such frequent liaisons provide updates on retail market trends, retailer’s internal policies (promotional mark down, coverage, uplift, de-lift, OTB etc.), and finally helps to align the operational plans to customer’s objectives.

Warehousing Services

Beacon collaborates with multiple warehouses at East Coast and West Coast in North America. These warehouses assume the functions of receiving the merchandising, stocking, and doing weekly replenishments through Pick- Pack/ Cross-Dock to retailer’s stores. Beacon’s US based teams work with retailer’s EDI dept to set up warehouses to ensure successful order fulfillment managing FIFO/LIFO and smooth EDI transactions. The warehouse facilities located at West Coast and East Coast provide flexibilities to use multiple distribution points based upon proximity of retail stores. Beacon also offers warehouse management software which is web based and provides real time visibility to inventory check-in, shipments, aging of stocks, inventory turns and stock locations.

EDI Services

Electronic Data Interchange being the most rapid mode of data transportation, Beacon has developed comprehensive EDI solution that integrates the warehouse operations with EDI data management. The service component includes warehouse set up for EDI data transmissions (850, 856, 810, 852, 830, 997,etc) , order processing and pick pack management against periodic replenishment orders by individual retail store. Web based reporting on retail orders, shipments, invoices and stock updates, is the value added feature of beacon EDI services. This service is common to every replenishment business and works equally good for factory side warehouses and 3PL’s (3rd party logistics).

Pick-Pack Solutions

Thanks to the technology. Beacon provides pick to voice and pack to voice solution that greatly facilitate the pick pack process and ensure item level packing accuracy. Equipped with blue tooth headphones and scanners, mainframe system provides voice commands to the packing staff to pick particular sku from the given location. End of the line scanning further ensures 100% accuracy or speaks any exception by voice stimulating quick feedback.

Welcome to Beacon

Beacon provides demand forecast and supply chain solutions to its manufacturing and retail clients. Beacon having the pool of business analysts and IT professionals, designs & delivers simplified solutions to the complex hitches of supply chain. Beacon’s demand forecast software takes the historical data and transform into demand, sales & production forecast, using the most appropriate forecasting technique.  Beacon has the flexibility to build customized supply chain models that fit to the diverse needs of its clients and are aligned to the overall objectives of an enterprise. Beacon services include

  • Demand Forecast & Supply Chain Management
  • EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Management
  • Warehouse Services
  • Pick Pack Solutions

The team at Beacon, strongly believes in the integrity of data which they transform into operational plans using their intellectual powerhouse driven by innovation, technology and most importantly customer centered mindset.

  E-IMS

  • A web based supply chain and forecst tool
  • Real time data visibility along with future insight on planning and production
  • Provides on line reporting and services as surveillance tool for upper management