Your next stockout is already scheduled.
Not “might happen.” Scheduled. It was decided weeks ago by an order-by date nobody was watching.
One model. One weekly decision list. We build it around your catalog and run the planning cycle with you or for you. You never guess a reorder again.
Fifteen engagements, in their own numbers.
Each number is a total from the client systems we worked in, with the number of clients it covers beside it. Below them, six findings from that work. Each one opens.
Units of real stock surfaced with no mapping at all, out of 204,665 units held across four systems.
Homefield Apparel→ AWD → FBAPiles of stock sat at AWD, the warehouse behind Amazon, while FBA ran low. The first lever was transfers, not new purchase orders.
Tech-E→ 2xSupplier minimums more than doubled the order: 7,018 units of real demand became 14,142 ordered.
Coda Music→ 28 of 44ASINs called 10,760 units short of the November target, in the first week of the month.
Zesti Greens→ ZeroError rows across 79 shipments, 231 order lines and 122,263 units reconciled against the client’s planning system.
Coda Music→ 32 to 82Real supplier days measured on 134 closed orders, against a plan that assumed 75 for everyone.
HODL-21→It’s 11pm, and you’re still the freight desk.
If you sell physical products with real supplier lead times, the decisions that make or break your cash are made weeks before the symptoms show. Four ways it goes wrong:
Stockouts that destroy momentum
A stockout costs you more than a day of sales. On Amazon it sinks your rank and the organic momentum you spent months building. On Shopify and retail it costs you the reorder and, often, the customer. Recovery takes weeks.
Cash asleep in the wrong inventory
Long lead times force you to order months ahead. Order too much and your cash is locked in a warehouse, aging toward a storage surcharge tier nobody is watching. Order too little and you’re back to stockouts.
Three numbers that disagree
Amazon says one thing. Your 3PL says another. Your supplier is holding stock neither of them knows about. You make reorder decisions on top of all three, and somewhere in the gap is a stockout or a pile of dead cash.
The founder is the planner
You’re the CEO, the inventory planner, and the freight coordinator. You have chased a forwarder for an ETA at 11pm personally, more than once, because nobody chased it during business hours.
The carbon panel is the point: every one of these was decided weeks before it was felt.
The last three fixes didn’t fail because the math was hard.
The spreadsheet
Right the day it was built, decaying ever since, because nobody is paid to keep it true.
The software
Happily recommends a reorder against a stock number that’s wrong, because it doesn’t know your 3PL miscounted.
The hire
Ramped for months, held the system in their head, and left with it. Or never ramped, and you spent six months finding out.
Three layers, then one cadence.
The In-Stock Engine is our managed planning system: we model your catalog once, properly, and the weekly rhythm keeps it true.
Stop the bleed
Before optimizing anything, we find the money already leaking.
Build the model
One combined view across every node, with reorder points computed off real velocity.
Leave it behind
Written down, installed, and trained, so the system survives any one person stepping back. Including us.
This week’s plan, in your inbox before the call.
| SKU | State | Cover | Next |
|---|---|---|---|
| VLM-0093 | Stockout 21 d | 3.4 wk | Confirm PO-2481 by Friday |
| VLM-0007 | Reorder due | 4.9 wk | Place 2,400 units, order by 29 Aug |
| VLM-0114 | 7.5 wk | · | |
| VLM-0201 | Oversold | 0.0 wk | Transfer 640 units, 3PL to FBA |
| VLM-0168 | Aged 120 d | 13.8 wk | Price move, sized in the plan |
| VLM-0021 | 11.2 wk | · |
Healthy rows stay silent so the exceptions can speak.
Someone else already vouched.
One review, verbatim from the platform record. The rest, and the full verified strip, live on the Record page.
“Great operational mindset. The recommendations were practical and clearly prioritized. Their coordination, focus, and ownership were outstanding. Each part of the work was handled by someone who clearly knew what they were doing, and communication was seamless.”
What we will never show you: a guarantee of zero stockouts, a forecast-accuracy percentage, or a promise that any of this runs fully automated with nobody watching. Firms that promise those things are lying to you, and the fastest way to lose your trust in month three is to buy it with a lie in month one.
One build. Then two ways to run it.
Fixed monthly pricing, quoted upfront. No hourly billing, and no discovering the scope in month three.
We model your catalog once, properly: every node, every lead time, every reorder point, and the ten SOPs that keep it running. Thirty days. The workbook is yours.
Half of it comes back as credit at month six. Prepay a year and all of it does.
- The weekly plan, before your call
- The 30-minute call with your senior lead
- Risk flags and velocity-spike watch between calls
- ETA discipline: committed versus actual, chased on a cadence
- Quarterly supplier scorecards and the month-end valuation
- You place the POs and run the transfers
- Everything in Core
- We place the approved POs in your name
- We run the transfers and follow them to check-in
- Suppliers and forwarders chased live, twice a week
- Peak-season PO placement and air-versus-ocean bridges
Same plan either way. The difference is whose week it consumes. $1,250 and $2,250 are the current launch rates. They only go up from here, and clients keep the rate they joined at.
See everything the build installs →The Found-Money Guarantee.
If the build produces no material finding, the build fee becomes service credit, capped at fees paid. The credit is not cash. Under the published continuity terms, half the build fee returns as credit at month 6, and an annual prepay returns all of it.
Put an owner behind the next order-by date.
The fit call is 30 minutes. We look at the shape of the operation, the current planning burden, and which SKUs appear exposed over the next 90 days.
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