Optiply is built to help you do your shopping. By entering the correct parameters you can make Optiply completely suitable for your company. So here we have described in 4 steps how you can optimize your purchasing strategy by means of Optiply. Because at Optiply we want the best for you.
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We have set out two purchasing strategies that can add to your current strategy. You can read more here: 'Purchasing Strategy'.

Choosing the right purchasing strategy starts with categorizing the range. These categories are classified based on the volume of sales and the margin of a product. So in the 'A category' are the best selling and the 'C category' is the longtail. By setting different delivery reliability for each category, they are treated differently when purchasing. You want to deliver a product from the
'A category', 99% from stock. If you do not have these products in stock for a while, this will immediately lead to lost sales. In the 'C-category', perhaps 90% is sufficient because the risk is much greater that you will be left with stock and the chance that an order will be received is a lot smaller anyway. Ultimately, this ensures a stock in balance.

By default there will be set:

Optiply focuses on purchasing strategies to make people think. To determine your purchasing strategy you need to think about how you want to set up the following aspects:

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