Data Collection & Analysis
We securely integrate with your systems to analyze historical sales, inventory levels, and operational constraints.
Why Traditional Inventory Management Falls Short
Industrial distributors struggle with inventory optimization due to fundamental limitations in conventional approaches:
Limited Inventory Visibility
Difficulty tracking available stock across multiple locations in real-time
Service Level Optimization
Balancing availability with inventory costs to meet diverse customer needs
Working Capital Efficiency
Reducing excess inventory while ensuring product availability
Just-in-Time Availability
Meeting growing customer expectations for immediate product access and same-day delivery
SKU Proliferation
Managing expanding product catalogs while maintaining inventory efficiency
Traditional approaches to these challenges often require substantial investment in new systems and major organizational change. Deda’s Inventory Intelligence offers a more targeted, efficient approach. Find our more here.
Our Inventory Intelligence Solution
Deda Inventory Intelligence goes beyond traditional planning tools to provide true situational awareness and adaptive decision insights:
Learns from your unique business patterns and explains exactly why specific inventory levels are recommended at each location. Our system processes thousands of variables, recognizes emerging patterns, and provides transparent reasoning behind every recommendation—adapting continuously as market conditions evolve.
Anticipates future needs across your network by recognizing subtle signals in your data that humans might miss. The system explains why certain locations need specific inventory levels, identifies potential disruptions before they occur, and adapts its recommendations based on real-time signals from your business environment.
Moves beyond rigid rules to intelligently adapt purchasing recommendations as conditions change. The system explains the reasoning behind each recommendation, identifying which external and internal factors are influencing its decisions. As it learns from outcomes, it continuously refines its approach to your unique business conditions.
Learns what truly constitutes an exception in your business by understanding normal patterns versus genuine anomalies. The system provides clear explanations for flagged exceptions, recommends specific actions, and gets smarter over time by learning from resolution outcomes.
Continuously learns from results to improve future recommendations while explaining key factors driving changes in strategy. The system identifies connections between inventory decisions and business outcomes, helping your team understand not just what to do but why it matters and how different scenarios might play out.
Key Benefits
Ensure your teams can satisfy customer needs by having the right products available when and where they're needed, improving customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Free up working capital without sacrificing service by eliminating unnecessary stock and optimizing inventory placement across your network.
Improve product availability and response times, strengthening customer relationships and driving repeat business through reliable service.
Reduce time spent on inventory issues and allow your team to focus more on customer relationships and value-added activities rather than firefighting stock problems.
Enable your team to make confident inventory decisions based on AI insights rather than gut feel, improving consistency and reducing risk.
Continuous use of Deda’s Inventory Intelligence solution reduces overall inventory levels, frees-up cash invested in excess inventory and increases inventory turns.
How It Works
Our comprehensive inventory intelligence process delivers exceptional results through:
Demand Pattern Recognition
Our AI algorithms identify seasonal trends, growth patterns, and demand signals at the SKU level.
Inventory Optimization Modeling
We develop customized models that determine optimal inventory levels, safety stock, and placement.
Implementation of Recommendations
Our system provides specific, actionable guidance for purchasing and inventory allocation.
Continuous Monitoring & Refinement
We continuously track performance and adjust recommendations as conditions change.
Success Story
Industrial Supply Wholesaler
North America's largest pure wholesaler of industrial, welding, safety, construction, energy, and janitorial supplies, selling exclusively to distributors, faced significant inventory challenges.
Deda’s Inventory Intelligence solution transformed our approach to inventory management. We’ve reduced back orders while simultaneously lowering our overall inventory investment, creating a win-win for our business and our customers.
Supply Chain Director
Industrial Supply Wholesaler
Challenge
The company operated multiple distribution centers with high inventory levels tying up working capital while still experiencing poor fill rates due to inadequate stock of the right items in the right places at the right times.
Our Approach
Using our Inventory Intelligence product, we implemented robust algorithms to optimize inventory levels based on their business operations strategy, ensuring resources were used in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible.
Results
- 40% reduction in back orders for safety and security product categories
- 5% reduction in overall inventory while maintaining a 90% service level
- Greater stability of back order levels over time
- Improved reaction to demand spikes through optimized safety stock levels
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