Everything the build installs.
The In-Stock Engine is Volumetris’s managed inventory planning system: we build the model around your catalog, then a senior lead runs it with you every week. Here is exactly what you get, what it replaces, and what it costs.
Stop the bleed.
Before optimizing anything, we look for money that is already leaking. This layer is first because it is the fastest to prove and the easiest to check against your own records.
The Reimbursement Sweep
Every shipment reconciled, and missing units turned into documented, filed cases. Recovery firms do this one slice and keep 20 to 25 percent of what they find. Here it happens once, and you keep all of it.
The Overstock Scan
Every node swept for aged and hidden positions, so overstock becomes a ranked list with dollar weights instead of a feeling. We size the clearing move. Whoever runs your pricing and ads executes it, because that stays their lane.
The Reconciliation Layer
Your marketplace number, your 3PL number, and your supplier number made to agree, with every discrepancy named rather than averaged away.
The Five-Point Health Check
Checked at onboarding, then monthly.
Build the model.
The system the weekly plan runs on. Built once, properly.
The Master Sheet System
One combined inventory and demand view across every node, with days of coverage per location. First working version inside 72 hours of access.
The PO Tracker
Every order’s lifecycle as a field and not a conversation. Built three times for three different brands, which makes it the most battle-tested asset we have.
The Forecast Engine
Every SKU carries a recommended order date and quantity you did not have to compute.
The Lead-Time Pipeline Model
How long things actually take, per supplier and per shipping mode. Your Q4 and Chinese New Year order-by dates fall out of this automatically.
The Sunset Tab
Per-SKU discontinue-or-liquidate flags with the reason attached to each line, down to a liquidation manifest a buyer can act on.
Data Plumbing and SKU Mapping
The unglamorous layer everything else sits on. This is where Homefield’s 17,621 invisible units turned up.
- Vertical linethat SKU’s lead time
- Green fillcover at or below the line, act now
- Long bar past the linecash parked
Cover that does not clear its own lead-time line is a stockout already scheduled. This is the read the weekly plan is built from. Illustrative SKUs, real structure.
Leave it behind.
So the system survives any one person stepping back. Including us.
The Ten SOPs
Every recurring motion written down, installed, and trained. This is also your insurance against ever being dependent on us.
The Delegation Roadmap
A written roadmap, reviewed monthly. A trajectory with milestones, never a switch.
Thirty days. One structured handover from you at the start, one sign-off walkthrough at the end. The workbook is yours, and if you ever leave, it leaves with you.
The two unpriced items are worth whatever they find. Half the build fee comes back as credit at month six. Prepay a year and all of it comes back.
The run keeps your numbers true, every week.
The build gives you the system. The run is the ownership, which is the thing your spreadsheet, your software, and your last hire never had.
- The weekly plan, before your call: suggested POs with SKU, quantity and order-by date
- Transfer recommendations and risk flags, each with a reason
- The 30-minute call with the senior lead who built your numbers
- The watch between calls: coverage gaps, 2x velocity spikes, air-versus-ocean bridge math
- ETA discipline: committed versus actual per PO and per supplier, out of your inbox
- Quarterly supplier scorecards and the month-end stock valuation at cost
- 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 until goods are checked in
- Suppliers and forwarders chased live, twice a week, with escalation
- Peak-season PO placement and air-versus-ocean bridge execution
Same plan either way. The difference is whose week it consumes.
Partner is a client service plan. For agency, 3PL, freight, finance and advisory relationships, see B2B Partners.
Where Core stops and Partner starts.
Fixed prices only work with a fixed scope. Here are the edges, in public, before you pay anything.
| Core | Partner | |
|---|---|---|
| Active SKUs | up to 300 | up to 500 |
| Inventory nodes | up to 3 | up to 4 |
| Country clusters | 1 | up to 2 |
| Suppliers chased live | tracked, not chased | up to 15 |
| We place the POs | no | yes |
| We run the transfers | no | yes |
| Weekly plan and call | yes | yes |
| The workbook is yours | yes | yes |
Bigger than Partner’s cap, we quote it separately. It is never a discounted mega-Partner.
The Found-Money Guarantee.
The build surfaces no material finding.
Material means things like an unreconciled shipment, a misstated stock position, a wrong lead time or MOQ in active use, an overstock or surcharge exposure.
The build fee comes back as service credit.
Toward Core or Partner.
Capped at fees paid. Service credit, never cash.
Said here so nobody reads it in fine print later.
You do.
With us, at the walkthrough, with the evidence on screen.
What we guarantee
The discipline. The plan, the cadence, the watch, and the finding. That part is ours, so we stand behind it.
What we never guarantee
Zero stockouts. We do not control your cash, your suppliers, or your approvals, and a firm that guarantees outcomes it does not control is lying to you.
Why we can offer it
Every documented engagement we have run has surfaced something material in the modeling. The guarantee is not a bet against you. It is the working record, formalized.
What else you could do with the money.
Every rung here is real. We sit between a subscription and a hire, on purpose.
| The option | Per month | What it misses |
|---|---|---|
| An in-house planner | $4,000+ | One head, fully loaded, after a three-month search. The real risk was never the salary. It was the ramp, then the struggle, then leaving with the system in their head. |
| Partner | $2,250 | The plan, and our hands on the keyboard. A small team rather than one head, and nobody takes leave at the same time. |
| Core | $1,250 | The plan, and your hands on the keyboard. Priced above a subscription because it includes a person. Priced well below a hire because it does not include a head. |
| Forecasting software alone | $100 to $2,000 | Keep it, we are not competing for that line item. It will recommend a reorder against a stock number that is wrong, because it does not know your 3PL miscounted. |
| Your own hands and a sheet | $0 | Genuinely the right answer under 50 SKUs, or before you hold real inventory with real lead times. Ask us and we will point you at one. |
$1,250 and $2,250 are the current launch rates. They only go up from here, and clients keep the rate they joined at.
Choose the level of ownership your operation needs.
A 30-minute working session to assess fit, current risk, and the likely first scope.