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eCommerce · Operating-cost reduction

Inventory forecasting and replenishment that ends the stockout guesswork.

Forecast SKU demand with uncertainty, recommend replenishment scenarios, and let planners approve purchase and allocation decisions.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$19,000
fixed-scope pilot
Specialist opportunity
launch posture
Strong durable demand
market signal
inventory-forecasting-and-replenishment-copilot
// clean demand history
input: Orders and returns
step: account for stockouts/returns
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
COO, Chief Supply Chain Officer, VP Merchandising
The champion
Inventory Planning Director, Demand Planning lead, Finance partner
Day-to-day users
Buyers, planners, operations and finance teams

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Fast-changing products, promotions, channel mix, and lead-time variability create stockouts and excess inventory that simple spreadsheet forecasts miss.

Who feels it

Buyers, planners, operations and finance teams

Trigger to act: Stockouts, markdowns, or working capital are off plan, assortment is expanding, or a brand needs better planning before peak.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$12,500
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: $5 million average inventory × 0.25% reduction in excess stock = $12,500 working-capital release. This is balance-sheet impact, not immediate profit.

The outcome, plainly: Forecast SKU demand with uncertainty, recommend replenishment scenarios, and let planners approve purchase and allocation decisions.

WAPE/bias
Stockout rate
Weeks of supply
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A Predictive model + decision copilot. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, with no invented data.

01
Clean demand history
02
Account for stockouts/returns
03
Forecast by SKU/channel
04
Quantify interval
05
Detect anomalies
06
Recommend reorder/transfer
07
Simulate promotion
08
Capture planner override
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Commerce/OMS
ERP
WMS/3PL
Purchase orders
Product hierarchy
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Warehouse-native statistical or ML model (for example XGBoost
Human gatePlanners approve every PO, transfer, allocation, and markdown; new-product and shock assumptions remain explicit.
Action · only after approval
Capture planner override
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

Warehouse-native statistical or ML model (for example XGBoost, LightGBM, Prophet or a task-specific model); GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 2.5 Flash or Claude Haiku 4.5 for explanations and planner interaction. Feature pipeline and model registry; back-testing and drift monitoring.

Inputs
  • Orders and returns
  • Inventory
  • Lead time
  • Promotions
  • Price
  • Product lifecycle
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

Planners approve every PO, transfer, allocation, and markdown; new-product and shock assumptions remain explicit.

What it will never do
No autonomous purchase order or markdown
No forecast guarantee
No hiding of stockout-censored demand or sparse lifecycle data
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
WAPE/bias
Stockout rate
Weeks of supply
Excess/aged inventory
Forecast value add
Planner acceptance
Service level
Inventory turns
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
NetstockInventory PlannerRELEXBlue YonderLokadCogsyERP planning modulesSpreadsheet planners
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

Commerce/OMSERPWMS/3PLPurchase ordersProduct hierarchyPromotionsLead timesPlanning/BI system
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$19,000
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$45,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$73,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

Monthly retraining, warehouse compute, feature pipelines and 5,000–50,000 scored entities.

$1,150–8,400
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,800/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your Commerce and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a human’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. Planners approve every PO, transfer, allocation, and markdown; new-product and shock assumptions remain explicit. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: No autonomous purchase order or markdown; no forecast guarantee; no hiding of stockout-censored demand or sparse lifecycle data..

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $1,150–8,400/month (monthly retraining, warehouse compute, feature pipelines and 5,000–50,000 scored entities), plus a $2,800/month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. The client needs an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from Netstock?

Tools like Netstock, Inventory Planner, RELEX are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it’s live, and how do we prove it works?

This is a specialist opportunity. We baseline “WAPE/bias” first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope: the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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