CybexAI ALLOCATION
Distribution, allocation and DC
automation for specialty retail
Cybex Retail Data Platform · AI Insights
The stock is there. It's in the wrong places.
Measured on live data at a 17-store specialty retailer with two distribution centres.
1.6×
stock against eight weeks of demand, across the whole chain
26%
of store and SKU positions with live demand hold nothing
57%
of eight-week demand can be served from store stock
$2.5M
at retail held above need by static store minimums
Too much stock and too little, at the same time. Static minimums and push-sheets can't keep up.
From data to decisions, automatically.
One platform carries every number from the till and the DC to the decision.
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Data platform

POS, WMS, ERP and e-commerce in one model

2
BI analytics

Sales, movement, stock and open orders by week

3
Statistical extract

Forecast, store index, size index, weeks of supply

4
Insight datasets

DC flow, replenishment, allocation, rebalancing

5
AI Insights viewer

Findings, exceptions and actions in plain language

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Applications

DC allocation
Distribution
Store rebalancing
Stock planner, direct-to-store POs

Starting with Allocation, Distribution & DC
Every result feeds tomorrow's run
Fully automated: runs every night, no spreadsheets, no push-sheets
01 · The demand model
Four numbers replace the static minimum.
A forecast for every store and size, turned into weeks of supply. The same numbers drive every screen.
Chain forecast
12/ wk
×
Store index
1.40
×
Size index · M
0.28
=
Store forecast
4.7/ wk
→
On hand + inbound
21
÷
Weeks of supply today
4.5
Decision · target 8 weeks
Send 17 units
8 weeks × 4.7 = 38 needed, 21 held. Computed for every store, style, colour and size.
Target 8 wks
4.5 wks
02 · DC allocation
The pick list writes itself.
Every night, store need becomes the warehouse pick list. When the DC is short, the stores with the fewest weeks of supply go first.
DC 01 · Pick listThursday 02:40 · 6 lines
Generated automatically
StoreStyle · Colour · SizeWks supplyPick
DC short on Crew Tee White M: ranked by weeks of supplySame paper, same picking
03 · Store rebalancing
Move stock to where it sells.
Over-stocked stores feed the ones running out, in fewer, fuller transfers, on the same weeks-of-supply target.
Target · 8 weeks of supplyOver-stockedRunning outOn target
04 · AI Insights
Insights that explain themselves.
DC productivity, stock flow and exceptions, written up in plain language every morning.
Cybex AI Insights · Distribution & DC
Insights
DC productivity
Stock flow by DC
Replenishment lanes
Allocation exceptions
Store rebalancing
Dead-stock candidates

DC productivity · last 13 weeks

Both distribution centres · refreshed 06:00
Units / direct hour, weekdays
156
Units / direct hour, weekends
94
Shipping share of touches
61%
AI insight
Automation and Optimization.
Every night it re-forecasts, re-allocates and re-balances. Your team starts the day on the exceptions.
↑
Service level

Stock where the demand is, by store and size

↓
Stock-outs

Short stores served first when the DC is short

↓
Markdowns

Less stock stranded where it doesn't sell

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Planner time

From push-sheets to exceptions and strategy

CybexAI ALLOCATION
Right stock. Right store. Automatically.
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