INVENTORY

Inventory as a
Competitive Advantage

Inventory turns stock from a cost center into your sharpest commercial weapon. AI-driven demand forecasting, margin-optimized allocation, and strategic positioning, so you build the right batches before the market moves, capture the best margin on every order, and never overpromise on something you can't deliver.

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FIFO · Margin · Location
Allocation Strategies
30-Day
Demand Anticipation
Continuous
Working-Capital Optimization
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Customers
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YTD Spend
€12.4M
+18%
Margin (avg)
11.4%
−0.6pp
On-time delivery
97%
+2pp
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Products in account
6 grades · 1 lapsed
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Good morning, Mia.

5 ready
Pipeline · open
€42.8M
Margin
11.6%
AI hours saved
38.4h
Open quotes
14
Drafted by Vailent
3 ready
Reply · BASF · spec follow-up
Drafted from 3 prior threads
96%
Quote · Nordpolymer · €2.4M
Linked to PO 4451
92%
Status update · MOL · OTIF 97%
Auto-pulled from ERP
88%
Today's actions
3 due
Call back · Tegral11:00
Approve quote · €840kToday
Review TDS · 3 docsEOD
Week ahead12 events
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Team activity
Today
MK
Mia K.
closed €1.2M · BASF
2h
JA
Jonas A.
added 4 SKUs · Catalog
5h
RD
Rachel D.
onboarded Tegral · A-rated
1d

Anticipate Demand Before It Hits

Build the right batches before the market moves.

Inventory layers your real sales velocity against Signal's feedstock and macro signals, so when butadiene tightens or your customers' application demand shifts, you're already positioned.

Demand ForecastingFeedstock SignalsSmart Re-orderingWorking Capital

Capture Margin On Every Order

Highest-margin batch. Every time.

When a deal closes in Pipeline, Inventory picks the batch that maximizes margin against current portfolio composition. FIFO, Highest Margin, or Quickest Arrival: your strategy, executed in under a second.

Highest MarginFIFOQuickest ArrivalAuditable Allocation
THE EXECUTION CORE

Inventory That Compounds

Every batch, every allocation, every supplier outcome becomes structured data the platform learns from, turning inventory judgment into a compounding edge.

Demand-Anticipating Re-Order

Suggested PO quantities that fuse your 30-day velocity, Signal feedstock pricing, and macro signals, so you build NBR before butadiene tightens, not after.

Margin-Optimized Allocation

FIFO, Highest Margin, Quickest Arrival, or manual override. Every order is anchored to a point-in-time OrderSnapshot for full reversibility.

Coverage Floor & Sales Throttling

When 30-day coverage drops below your threshold, Inventory tells Pipeline to throttle new sales of that SKU.

Supplier Scorecard

Every supplier rated on delivery reliability, cost variance, and product quality, based on the actual history of POs and receipts, not anecdote.

Multi-Warehouse Cross-Balance

Surface the rebalance moves that reduce overall carrying cost. Aged batches in one warehouse get matched to live demand in another.

Continuous Cost-Basis Accruals

Every received batch posts an accrual entry tied to supplier, PO, and actual cost.

The Outcome

A sales team that wins on margin, not just price. And a finance team that closes books continuously instead of at month-end.

Inside Inventory

Demand signals, surfaced before the order commits.

A focused look at one of the moments inside the product, the kind of small, everyday surface where Vailent quietly does the work.

Good morning, Mia.

5 ready
Pipeline · open
€42.8M
Margin
11.6%
AI hours saved
38.4h
Open quotes
14
Drafted by Vailent
3 ready
Reply · BASF · spec follow-up
Drafted from 3 prior threads
96%
Quote · Nordpolymer · €2.4M
Linked to PO 4451
92%
Status update · MOL · OTIF 97%
Auto-pulled from ERP
88%
Today's actions
3 due
Call back · Tegral11:00
Approve quote · €840kToday
Review TDS · 3 docsEOD
Week ahead12 events
M
T
W
T
F
Team activity
Today
MK
Mia K.
closed €1.2M · BASF
2h
JA
Jonas A.
added 4 SKUs · Catalog
5h
RD
Rachel D.
onboarded Tegral · A-rated
1d
Stock Ledger · 1988
Stock LedgerCardex Tray · 1988
Then & now
The way inventory used to be a cost center.

There's a New Way to Manage Inventory.

AI-driven demand anticipation, margin-optimized allocation, and continuous accruals, so inventory stops being a cost line and becomes the operational edge that wins on both margin and service level.