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SAS Intelligent Inventory Management
Cary, North Carolina, United States
What it is
SAS Intelligent Inventory Management is a web-based suite for retail and consumer packaged goods companies managing sizes, purchasing, and inventory. It combines SAS Size Optimization and SAS Inventory Optimization, using historical sales data, analytics, and machine learning to produce size, demand, and inventory intelligence. Demand-based size profiles can include event scenarios, active size-range detection, and multiple hierarchy levels. Products can be grouped by hierarchy or attributes, with new products matched to attribute profiles. Pack recommendations can apply usage and variation constraints, combine packs with bulk, and account for supply-chain costs and efficiencies. The suite calculates inventory across supply-chain levels and supports replenishment policies based on lead times, costs, and target service levels. What-if analysis compares planning scenarios, proposal costs, and policy effects across single- and multi-echelon networks. SAS says the Viya version can run on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services and requires SAS Common Data Store.
For and against
For
- Demand-based size profiles
- Multi-echelon inventory planning
- Replenishment policies use service-level targets
- Scenario analysis compares planning options
- Supports pack and bulk recommendations
Against
- Pricing is not publicly listed
- Documentation requires a licensed-customer access key
- Inventory Optimization is unavailable on SAS Viya from release 2024.04
- Requires SAS Common Data Store on Viya
The verdict
SAS Intelligent Inventory Management brings size optimization, pack planning, replenishment, and scenario analysis into one web suite. Organizations should confirm platform availability and access requirements before requesting a demo.
Who it suits
It is intended for retail and CPG companies, especially supply chain managers handling purchasing, distribution, sizes, and inventory. Pricing is available on request.
Plans and prices
SAS Intelligent Inventory Management
Request a demo; no public price shown
Read 7 Oct 2026 · sas.com
On the record
- Analytics
- It uses analytics and machine learning to turn historical sales data into size, demand and inventory intelligence.support.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Delivery strategy
- It optimizes packs across a season or product life cycle and can account for changing lifecycle needs and promotional requirements.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Demand profiles
- It creates demand-based size profiles, including event-specific scenarios, automatic detection of active size ranges and profiles at multiple hierarchy levels.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- SAS says the Viya version can be deployed on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services and requires SAS Common Data Store.documentation.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Documentation access
- The product documentation is on a secure site requiring an access key, which licensed customers can request from SAS Technical Support.support.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- SAS describes the suite for retail and CPG companies and says supply chain managers can use it to manage purchasing, distribution and inventory.support.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Inventory planning
- It calculates inventory levels across the supply chain and supports replenishment policies based on lead times, costs and target service levels.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Multi-echelon planning
- It calculates inventory levels across the supply chain and supports replenishment policies based on lead times, costs and target service levels.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Pack recommendations
- Pack portfolio recommendations can enforce usage and variation constraints, combine packs with bulk, and account for supply-chain costs and efficiencies.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Platform
- SAS identifies the most recent release as SAS Intelligent Inventory Management on the SAS Viya platform.support.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Pricing and sales
- The product page invites visitors to request a demo, and SAS's 2024 announcement describes a single-price, pay-as-you-go model for its retail planning suite without specifying this product's price.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Product attributes
- The product can group products by hierarchy or attributes and automatically match new products with attribute profiles.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Purchasing and distribution
- Supply chain managers can use it to manage purchasing workflows and distribution based on predicted demand, optimized sizes and pack configurations.support.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- The suite provides inventory optimization, size profiling and purchase order optimization for retail and consumer packaged goods companies.support.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Release limitation
- Starting with release 2024.04, SAS Intelligent Inventory Optimization is no longer available on the SAS Viya platform.support.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Scenario analysis
- What-if analysis lets users compare planning scenarios, analyze inventory proposal costs, and simulate policy effects across single- and multi-echelon networks.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Security and compliance
- SAS lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015 and ISO/IEC 27018:2019 among its frameworks, and says applicability depends on the customer engagement and agreement.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Size profiles
- Features include demand-based size profiles, event-specific scenarios, active size range detection and profiles at multiple hierarchy levels.sas.com · read 7 Oct 2026
