Netstock

Netstock's built-in AI functionality

Netstock puts a powerful AI expert directly on your team, helping you prevent issues before they occur, uncover hidden opportunities, and take confident, data-driven actions to optimize inventory. 

The Opportunity Engine™ continuously analyzes inventory data across all locations to flag risks such as potential stock-outs or excess inventory, prompting real-time actions like expediting orders or reducing excess.  Its learning capability adapts recommendations based on your input, ensuring guidance becomes increasingly tailored to your business needs. 

Netstock’s AI Pack takes this a step further with intelligent, built-in tools that turn complex data into clarity: 

Dashboard Analyzer - Converts complex KPI charts into concise summaries with actionable recommendations for quick, impactful decisions. 

Item Analyzer - Highlights item performance trends, identifies stock-out risks, and suggests targeted inventory optimization strategies. 

Item Troubleshooter - Equips teams to solve SKU-specific issues independently, speeding resolution and improving profitability. 

Report Explainer – Simplifies detailed reports into plain-language summaries, enabling faster, more accurate decision-making for all stakeholders. 

Inventory Email Agents: Uses AI to create an email to send to suppliers, addressing issues related to surplus orders, late shipments, or potential stockouts. Automatically notify affected customers when issues arise. 

Safety Stock Explainer: Instantly analyze and understand current safety stock coverage and risk factors.

Inventory classification & optimization

Netstock’s powerful classification engine automatically segments SKUs based on value and velocity, ensuring planners focus their time and resources on the products that matter most to profitability and service levels.

By distinguishing high-impact items from lower-priority stock, businesses can align inventory policies to each category, improving decision-making and ROI. 

Coupled with multi-echelon inventory optimization, Netstock enables you to manage inventory across your entire supply network, factoring in the interdependencies between central warehouses, regional distribution centers, and retail outlets. 

This ensures the right products are in the right locations at the right time, reducing excess at upstream locations while preventing costly stockouts downstream. 

The result is a leaner, more responsive supply chain that maximizes working capital and service performance.

Dashboards

Netstock’s Dashboard delivers comprehensive visibility into inventory performance, from high-level executive insights to detailed, operational metrics, empowering faster, smarter decision-making at every level. 

The Executive Dashboard provides leadership teams with a consolidated view of key inventory, ordering, and sales KPIs across multiple or all locations, with the ability to compare current results to historical trends for clear performance tracking. 

At the operational level, the Dashboard offers ready-to-use visibility into critical KPIs such as stock holding, excess stock, surplus stock, fill rate, stock-outs, and potential stock-outs. 

It highlights the top five SKUs driving each metric so teams can take targeted action.

Enhanced supplier performance monitoring

Netstock’s Supplier Performance functionality helps you reduce supplier risk and boost fill rates, giving your business a competitive edge through exceptional customer service. 

With a dedicated supplier module, you can monitor performance, track on-time, in-full (OTIF) delivery, and analyze lead time accuracy across your network. 

Reliable suppliers are quickly identified, and lead time variability is factored directly into replenishment planning to avoid disruptions. 

Safety stock levels are automatically adjusted in line with supplier risk, ensuring the right protection without overstocking. 

From OTIF KPIs and lead time metrics to supplier investment analysis, Netstock empowers you to optimize your supplier base, improve responsiveness, and strengthen your entire supply chain.

Automated safety stock calculations

Netstock dynamically calculates safety stock at the item level, ensuring optimal buffer levels that adapt to changing business conditions. 

Safety stock is determined using your target fill rate, balancing service level goals with working capital efficiency.

The calculation incorporates lead time variability, supplier reliability, demand volatility, and constraints such as minimum order quantities (MOQs). 

By continuously adjusting these buffers in response to demand patterns, supplier performance, or lead time shifts, Netstock ensures you maintain the right protection against stockouts, without tying up unnecessary capital in excess inventory.