For instance, Mark’s reported an 8 percent reduction in inventory and record sales growth. IKEA said it achieved cost savings from its longer-term commitments with suppliers. And in 2009, Walmart told its suppliers that it would implement a store-level DRP system with the intention of modeling the supply chain with its trading partners and providing manufacturers with schedules of its planned orders. For their part, suppliers including Scotts, Vtech, Kraft, Sony (US), and LR Services (Europe) have also implemented store-level DRP capabilities to improve their planning and execution with key retail partners by building out demand and supply plans based upon sales by location