How JB Hi-Fi Mastered the Holiday Retail Season with Algo’s Inventory Management Solution

JB Hi-Fi partnered with Algo to rapidly implement an AI-driven inventory management platform, improving stock availability, vendor fulfillment rates, and inventory ratios.

JB Hi-Fi

JB Hi-Fi’s supply chain challenges

JB Hi-Fi faced challenges in quickly implementing a custom inventory management solution, including integrating demand forecasting, launching new products, and aligning sales rates across categories.

  • Quick to Implement Custom Solution

    JB Hi-Fi needed an inventory management system that could be quickly deployed yet tailored to their specific requirements.

  • Integrating Replenishment Plans with Demand Forecasting

    The challenge of seamlessly aligning replenishment plans with accurate demand forecasts to ensure optimal stock levels.

  • Launching New Products

    Efficiently managing inventory and forecasting for new product launches to prevent overstocking or stockouts.

  • Aligning Rates of Sale Across Multiple Product Categories

    Ensuring consistent and accurate sales rates across a diverse range of product categories to streamline inventory management.

Algo’s solution for JB Hi-Fi

JB Hi-Fi and Algo Solutions rapidly implemented a unique inventory management platform before the high-volume Christmas period and saw results within weeks.

• Algo platform utilized the MS Azure Intelligent Cloud to run AI / ML forecasting models providing best in class
consumer demand replenishment orders and demand plans.
• Executed inventory processes in an environment customized for the unpredictable and dynamic nature of the consumer
electronics industry.
• Implemented a software enabled CPFR process with key vendors, optimized replenishment and allocation plans and
advanced consumer demand forecasts.
• Set up a powerful analytics platform for JB Hi-Fi and their strategic trading partners.

JB Hi-Fi’s results

With Algo’s implementation, JB Hi-Fi significantly improved operational efficiency, successfully meeting ambitious stock and financial targets during the high-demand Christmas season.

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Improvement in vendor fulfillment rates
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Improvement in stock availability
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Improvement in aged inventory ratios

“We traded through the Christmas period with unprecedented operational efficiencies in managing our stock flow through this high-volume trading period. The introduction of Algo across our entire suite of products contributed significantly to JB Hi-Fi hitting our very ambitious in-stock position, stock turn and weeks cover targets. The financial outcome being a contribution by Algo in helping achieve our sales and working capital targets.”

Cameron Trainor

Managing Director, JB Hi-Fi

“We traded through the Christmas period with unprecedented operational efficiencies in managing our stock flow through this high-volume trading period. The introduction of Algo across our entire suite of products contributed significantly to JB Hi-Fi hitting our very ambitious in-stock position, stock turn and weeks cover targets. The financial outcome being a contribution by Algo in helping achieve our sales and working capital targets.”

Cameron Trainor

Managing Director, JB Hi-Fi

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