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 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.