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​Deliver value to businesses managing random demand across their supply chains

  • Pharmaceutical distribution brings unique inventory challenges driven by strict regulations, product characteristics (e.g. short shelf-lives, temperature sensitivity), and the need for absolute traceability:

    • Regulatory compliance & GDP

    • Expiry & shelf-life management

    • Batch & lot traceability

    • Returns & reverse logistics

    • Rebates management

    • etc.

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    We began in 2009 by building our solution on nationwide data from the #2 pharmaceutical distributor in Eastern Europe. Tackling the unique challenges of this demanding industry has laid the foundation for our robust replenishment management system​

  • Pharmaceutical retailers face a set of industry-specific challenges that go beyond typical retail:

    • Expiry management & waste reduction

    • Demand volatility & seasonality

    • Pricing pressure & reimbursement

    • Supply disruptions & shortages

    • Inventory visibility & traceability

    • Security & loss prevention

    • Patient experience & service levels

    • Digital transformation & omnichannel integration

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    By addressing these challenges through precise forecasting, dynamic replenishment, and end-to-end traceability, pharma retailers using Inventor System protect margins, ensure patient safety, and elevate service levels

  • Distributors of fast-moving consumer goods face intense pressure from both global giants and nimble local players. Here are key pain points that Inventor System successfully tackles:

    • Demand forecasting and order planning: fully automated, fact-based, and profit-justified

    • Inventory and working capital: balances fill-rate targets with cost minimization

    • Supply chain complexity: selects suppliers based on contract terms and actual performance

    • Promotions and trade dynamics: factors in rebates, co-op discounts, and minimum order quantities to recommend the most profitable order mix

    • Tech fragmentation and adoption: provides an intuitive UI and best-practice templates so teams can be productive from day one

    • Order instability and vmi services: enables distributors to offer vendor-managed inventory, smoothing retail demand spikes, improving service levels, and evening out warehouse workloads through clear, real-time visibility into consumption patterns

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  • Retailers face a host of challenges, but Inventor System helps them not only survive—but thrive—by automating and optimizing every aspect of their replenishment operations. Here’s how:

    • Demand volatility and stock-outs: SKU-level stochastic forecasting and automated replenishment keep availability high without excess inventory.

    • Labor-intensive planning: fully automated daily routines handle forecasts, order generation, and inter-store transfers—freeing planners to focus on strategy.

    • Promo event complexity: promo-planning automation ingests calendars and historical uplifts, then configures orders and price changes in one click.

    • Dynamic pricing needs: dynamic-pricing engine combines cost, competitor data, and demand curves to suggest optimal prices in real time.

    • Inter-store imbalances: rebalancing engine recommends stock moves between stores to match local demand, minimize markdowns, and smooth warehouse workload.

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    By embedding intelligence into forecasts, orders, promotions, pricing, and transfers, Inventor System slashes labor costs, boosts availability, and empowers retailers to focus on customer experience and growth.

  • Drogery chains—retailers of health, beauty, and personal‐care products—face many of the same pressures as FMCG and pharmacy, but with a few twists of their own:

    • Ultra‐wide, fast‐turn assortments: Fine-grain SKU-level forecasting automatically clusters similar items but still treats each shade/fragrance separately, ensuring you carry the right mix without overstocking obscure variants.

    • High promotional intensity & planogram compliance: One-click promo planning ingests promo calendars and planogram changes, rebalances shelf allocations, and auto-generates optimized orders to hit targets and maintain agreed-upon facings.

    • Low-margin, high‐shrink categories: Balances service-level targets (e.g. 97–98%) with cost-minimization, reducing “just in case” buffers on low-margin SKUs and flagging unusually high wastage or shrink rates for investigation.

    • Omnichannel & click-and-collect: Consolidates all channel sales data into a single forecast, then allocates inventory dynamically—ensuring each channel has the right stock at the right time.

    • Regulatory labeling & expiration: Tracks lot and expiry at SKU level, driving FEFO replenishment and automated alerts for upcoming expiries—minimizing write-offs and ensuring compliance.

    • Private-label vs. national brands: Monitors velocity and profitability by brand, dynamically adjusting safety stocks and order quantities to maximize category margin mix.

    • Store-level micro-demand: Uses store-level demand profiles to set unique reorder points per unit per location—so each store carries what its customers actually buy, not a one-size-fits-all plan.

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    By layering SKU-level AI forecasting, profit-driven replenishment, and end-to-end traceability, Inventor System arms drogery chains with the precision they need—cutting labor, reducing shrink, and ensuring every product is where it needs to be, when it needs to be there.

  • Fresh food retailers—specializing in perishables like produce, meat, and dairy—face unique pressures beyond standard retail. here are their major pain points and how Inventоr System addresses them:

    • Perishability and waste: even small forecasting errors lead to high shrink costs. Inventоr System uses ultra-short-horizon SKU-level forecasting and dynamic safety stocks to minimize spoilage. And, utilization cost is part of all variable costs optimized.

    • Demand volatility and seasonality: weather, local events, and holidays drive unpredictable swings. Our solution ingests external data (weather, events) to adjust forecasts in real time and auto-tune replenishment.

    • Tight shelf-life management: every SKU has a limited sell-by window. Inventоr System enforces FEFO replenishment, triggers automated markdown recommendations, and alerts staff to urgency.

    • Complex cold-chain logistics: multiple suppliers, hubs, and temperature controls increase risk. we model lead-time variability and temperature-excursion impact to optimize order timing and batch selection.

    • Dynamic pricing and promotions: flash deals and perishability demand rapid repricing. our dynamic-pricing engine combines shelf-life decay curves with competitive data to recommend optimal markdowns.

    • Inventory visibility and traceability: recalls and quality audits require lot-level tracking across coolers and displays. Inventоr System provides end-to-end traceability and real-time stock counts.

    • Labor cost and scheduling: specialized handling and manual ordering inflate labor. fully automated daily routines for forecasting, ordering, and waste reporting free staff to focus on customer service.

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    By layering AI-driven, SKU-level forecasting with FEFO automation, dynamic pricing, and end-to-end traceability, Inventor System helps fresh retailers slash waste, improve freshness, and redeploy labor toward growth and experience.

  • Banks managing ATM networks face unique cash-replenishment challenges, but Inventor System helps them optimize every refill. Here’s how:

    • Demand variability and special days: SKU-level (“ATM-level”) stochastic forecasting ingests salary schedules, public holidays, and local event calendars to generate accurate daily cash-out projections.

    • Denomination mix optimization: system calculates the optimal combination of notes per ATM to cover forecasted demand with minimal excess and lower logistics cost.

    • Routing and scheduling constraints: our replenishment engine integrates lead-time variability (traffic, security checks) and depot stock levels to propose the most efficient refill routes and schedules.

    • Security and cash-holding limits: dynamic safety-stock buffers adjust to forecast uncertainty, ensuring ATMs never run dry while staying within permitted cash-holding limits.

    • Labor and operational efficiency: fully automated daily routines generate refill plans, denomination orders, and crew assignments—freeing staff to focus on exceptions and security.

    • Unexpected events and contingencies: real-time monitoring feeds back into the model, triggering auto-alerts and on-the-fly replanning to reroute deliveries or swap trucks.

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    By embedding AI-driven forecasting, profit-driven optimization, and automated scheduling into ATM cash management, Inventor System ensures each machine is topped up with the right mix of notes on the right day—minimizing downtime, reducing costs, and improving customer satisfaction.

  • Manufacturers often have tightly controlled production schedules, but spare parts and MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) inventories can spiral out of control—tying up millions in excess stock and risking unplanned downtime. Here’s how Inventor System tackles the key challenges:

    • Unpredictable, intermittent demand: Level stochastic forecasting models both preventive schedules and failure‐driven demand, sizing reorder points to cover variability without overstocking.

    • Extreme SKU proliferation: Inventor System delivers precise, individual forecasts and optimized order parameters for each SKU at every location, eliminating one-size-fits-all averages and ensuring even the rarest parts are managed optimally.

    • Long, variable lead times: The system ingests real supplier lead‐time distributions and external factors (e.g. port delays), dynamically adjusting safety stocks to maintain service targets.

    • Criticality vs. cost trade-off: A profit-driven objective function weighs downtime costs against inventory carrying costs, ensuring critical parts are always available while trimming non-critical overstock.

    • Obsolescence and life-cycle changes: Demand-decay modeling identifies parts with declining use, triggering planned phase-out orders and minimizing write-offs.

    • Data quality and master-data gaps: Built-in data-validation routines flag anomalies, prompt expert review, and progressively clean the data as part of the optimization workflow.

    • Multi-location coordination: Multi-echelon optimization synchronizes stocking policies across all locations, reducing total inventory while keeping each site ready for its local demand.

    • Anti-fraud detection and prevention: Continuous monitoring flags SKUs with no movement despite on-hand balances, prompting investigations into their whereabouts and condition—protecting assets and reducing shrink.

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    By layering AI-driven forecasting, profit-centered optimization, and automated replenishment—tailored for MRO complexity—Inventor System slashes excess, defends uptime, and turns spare-parts planning from a cost center into a competitive advantage.

  • Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) delivers benefits across the spectrum—from niche brands to global giants like Coca-Cola. Here are common challenges that VMI helps overcome:
    Demand variability: Sporadic sales patterns—whether for limited-edition luxury items or everyday beverages—make manual ordering hit-or-miss. VMI smooths replenishment by using real-time consumption data.
    Working-capital strain: Slow movers tie up cash and shelf space, while fast movers risk stockouts. VMI optimizes inventory levels so you carry only what you need, when you need it.
    Fragmented account networks: Thousands of outlets—independent retailers, grocery chains, vending partners—each reorder on different schedules. VMI centralizes visibility, pooling demand to reduce logistics cost and improve fill rates.
    Manual, error-prone processes: Email or phone orders introduce delays and mistakes. VMI automates reorder triggers, eliminating human error and administrative overhead.
    Promotional and seasonal spikes: Campaigns, holidays, and regional events create sudden surges. VMI’s forecasting adjusts for past patterns—ensuring extra stock is pre-positioned where demand will spike.
    Variant proliferation: Multiple flavors, pack sizes, or special editions each behave differently. VMI applies SKU-level intelligence to replenish each variant based on its own sales history.
    Service-level consistency: Empty shelves damage brand reputation—be it a premium fountain pen or a popular soft drink. VMI maintains target in-stock rates (98–99%) with minimal excess.
    Risk of obsolescence: Seasonal or limited-run SKUs lose value quickly. VMI automatically slows or stops orders when sales taper off, reducing markdowns and write-offs.

    From the client’s perspective, VMI powered by Inventor System means you no longer have to worry about planning inventory—no more forgotten orders, mixed-up quantities, or unrealistic forecasts. We take care of replenishment for your clients, so they can focus on running their shops and serving customers with complete peace of mind.

    By shifting planning to a VMI model powered by Inventor System, suppliers—from boutique artisans to corporate leaders—gain real-time visibility, precise automated replenishment, and a lean, service-driven supply chain.

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