Automate Inventory Planning and Maximize Working Capital with ICS by FDC

ICS is the definitive solution to eliminate the chaotic operational challenge of managing your overall order planning activity. The core stock replenishment feature transforms what can be a fragmented, manual process into a single, cohesive, and intelligent workflow that is directly integrated with your core ERP system. This feature makes ICS an essential tool for streamlining your entire order planning process, providing the precision necessary to efficiently manage even the most diverse, high-volume inventory. By utilizing Intelligent Forecasting to dynamically calculate precise lead times and automatically apply seasonal patterns, ICS ensures accurate order quantities, preventing costly stockouts during peak demand and eliminating capital lock-up from surplus stock during slow periods. Furthermore, with capabilities like Multi-Supplier Command and Process Consistency built-in, ICS significantly reduces manual effort, freeing up your planning and warehouse personnel to focus exclusively on higher-value activities.

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Stop allowing static spreadsheets and reactive decisions to control your valuable capital; Inventory Capital Solutions (ICS) is the definitive, next-generation tool that fundamentally shifts your inventory strategy from compliance to high-precision strategic advantage by mastering Future-Dated Orders. This critical feature allows you to plan, create, and submit highly accurate orders with a future receipt date, instantly converting today’s calculated forecast into a guaranteed future commitment, thus allowing you to maintain full visibility over your forward financial obligations without immediately impacting current cash flow or stock levels. Leveraging its proprietary Tournament Method forecasting and Dynamic Lead Times, ICS ensures your primary replenishment is actively optimized for your business’s unique financial and service goals, strategically timing deliveries to prevent costly stockouts during peak demand and eliminating overstocking during slow periods, all while automating the process to free your team for strategic exception management rather than routine order creation.

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The ICS Events Planning feature is a cornerstone of Order Planning activity, delivering a significant strategic advantage by ensuring your inventory is always synchronized with future business needs. This powerful module moves your planning beyond static historical data by allowing you to proactively input and manage all known future activities—such as major service overhauls, large promotional campaigns, or scheduled equipment deliveries—directly within the platform. By defining the exact dates, specific parts impacted, and the expected demand effects, ICS leverages its integrated component list capability to automatically adjust your reordering signals. This critical synchronization effectively prevents costly critical stockouts during demand surges while simultaneously eliminating unnecessary, wasteful inventory buildup, providing your organization with the intelligence needed to operate with unparalleled foresight.

ICS is the essential solution for achieving financial agility and optimizing stock management for replacement parts, assembled products, and attachments. This powerful capability seamlessly integrates rigorous demand planning with your Forecasting and Budget Planning cycle, giving your leadership team the power to fine-tune forecasts across any grouping—be it location, commodity, or equipment class—and immediately calculate the budgetary consequences. The system drives superior accuracy by pulling data from your CRM system for future opportunities, reviewing historical transactions, checking real-time stock, and factoring in current supplier lead times. ICS allows you to run multiple simulation models of different ordering and stocking policies, enabling rapid comparison of their effects on spending and capacity, thus providing dual-level forecasting that empowers your team to make highly confident, data-backed decisions and ensure your future warehouse space and financial commitments are aligned with market reality.

ICS is the definitive strategic tool for excess stock management, transforming surplus inventory from a silent, constant drain on profitability into a consistent, measurable source of working capital. Excess stock unnecessarily locks up critical working capital and consumes valuable warehouse space, but ICS provides a proactive solution with automated, daily recommendations for efficient distribution or surplus return preparation. The application empowers your team with Targeted Distribution by prioritizing high-value actions, such as internal transfers to locations where the part is needed, and streamlines the entire return process with Seamless Return Integration with established manufacturer programs. By systematically moving excess inventory, ICS immediately frees up essential warehouse space and directly improves your overall cash flow and business performance, enabling your company to operate with maximum financial agility. 

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ICS helps you manage your analysis and reporting activity by transforming raw data into actionable insights for strategic inventory oversight. This user-centric application features more than 25 out-of-the-box reports that clearly identify and categorize performance gaps within your stock. The design promotes efficiency, allowing users to quickly navigate to detailed item records and employ simple filtering tools to target specific trends. ICS ensures your strategic attention is directed correctly by highlighting problematic areas immediately. By monitoring essential supply chain metrics—such as delivery conformance and stock projections—ICS empowers your analysis and reporting team with the real-time intelligence needed to drive data-led operational excellence.