Canadian Tire is one of Canada’s best known brands, with more than 9 billion Canadian Dollars in revenue from the retail operation. Some 500 Canadian Tire stores are served by 4 large distribution centers.
The IMI supply chain solutions supports the processing of store orders and purchase orders and enables visibility across the warehouse sites to enable efficient inventory deployment and advanced cross-docking.
IMI's order & inventory management system is at the heart of our operations. It’s our transaction engine.
Shannon Macey
VP Supply Chain Strategy, Canadian Tire
The order & inventory management system from IMI is the enabler of our multi-channel supply chain strategy.
Carmine Bosco
AVP, Enterprise Supply Chain Processes, Canadian Tire
Challenge
Needed smarter supply chain to cope with growth
Very broad product assortment (+100 000 SKUs)
Seasonal products
Increasing volumes sourced from far east
Solution
With shipment monitor is the order & inventory management system from IMI visibility backbone for multi-channel sourcing and distribution
Customer collaboration for real-time store interaction, including auctioning of excess inventory and rationing during shortage
Result
Transit and cross-dock flows increase turnover of low-frequency and seasonal items
Streamlined logistics operations
Flexibility to manage new product categories and store growth