Reduce stockouts through AI-powered supply chain

Target Audience

Industrial manufacturers, production planners, purchasing managers

Challenge

Moreda-Riviere Trefilerías (MRT), a Spanish wire products manufacturer producing nails, mesh, cables, and fencing for construction and agriculture, relied on Excel-based forecasting dependent on individual planner knowledge. The company faced unbalanced inventory — excess stock in some items, recurring stockouts in others — with no synchronization between forecasting, purchasing, and production scheduling.

Solution Approach

MRT implemented Slimstock's Slim4 AI-powered platform in 2024, featuring stock keeping unit-level demand forecasting, automated inventory parameter adjustment, exception management, and dynamic safety stock alerts integrated with production scheduling.

Value Add

The transformation delivered a 31% sustained inventory reduction and 70% reduction in stockouts. MRT freed tied-up capital for strategic investments while shifting from reactive firefighting to proactive, data-driven decision-making. Last-minute order replanning and logistical emergencies became controlled exceptions rather than daily crises.

How to Apply This

The key to success in this use case was creating transparency in your actual data. This is not a rare situation - before leveraging your data in supply chain, warehousing and sales scenarios, producing the relevant insights in a simple way is a first step to create value in most cases. Only when your employees understand your current data, they will be able to formulate the insights they are missing or actions you should take. In this sense, setting up a data platform that raises transparency is a necessary prerequisite to employing AI-driven automation solutions in a sustainable way for your business.
Yet, good solutions are not available to large enterprises - also SMEs can benefit from solutions that are customized to your individual data landscapes and processes.

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