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Maximize profit dollars by rebalancing inventory across all locations
 

Allocation by invent.ai

Proactively allocate inventory to meet demand, maximize availability and improve inventory efficiency.

Supercharge your allocation strategy with invent.ai
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10-30%

reduction in inventory​

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20-30%

reduction in lost sales

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15-30%

less stranded inventory

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25-35%

reduction of waste

Invent.ai’s AI-driven allocation solution delivers measurable results, with a proven 10% sales increase in A/B testing—without adding inventory. By optimizing inventory distribution, it reduces allocator workload by 80%, freeing up time for strategic decision-making. AI-powered demand forecasting ensures optimal inventory positioning across online DCs and individual stores, maximizing sales potential at every location. With dynamic, automated allocation runs, inventory is continuously adjusted based on real-time demand, ensuring products are always in the right place at the right time.

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Demand-driven & profit-optimized decisions

Leverages AI to allocate inventory based on real-time demand and profitability insights, ensuring the right products are available at the right locations while minimizing excess stock.

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Advanced forecasting & inventory optimization​

Uses AI-powered demand forecasting to optimize inventory positioning across online DCs and stores, increasing sales potential without additional inventory investment.
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Supercharged planning & fulfillment 

Dynamically adjusts inventory allocations throughout the season, optimizing supply chain efficiency and reducing allocator workload by 80%.
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Enhanced inventory productivity

Reduces lost sales, stranded inventory and waste by continuously optimizing stock distribution, resulting in higher sell-through and lower fulfillment costs.

​Why invent.ai’s allocation solution?​

Invent.ai’s allocation optimizes inventory positioning and is built to overcome archaic, fixed-income or inventory planning in favor of a dynamic resource to meet multi-channel demand, reducing stockouts and excess while improving sell-through and fulfillment efficiency. With AI-driven decision-making, Allocation enhances service levels and maximizes margins to help planners achieve financial goals. Here’s how:
  • Measures lost sales at store-SKU
  • AI forecast​ for new items / new store, core items and omnichannel demand
  • Reserves inventory for online/DCs​
  • Optimize size distribution at store level​
  • AI executes optimal inventory levels based on constrained inventory for each store-SKU-day​
  • AI learns and uses store capacity constraints​

What if you could fulfill your online orders for maximum revenue based on all the factors, as well as constraints, affecting your bottom line and in so doing, your inventory? With our Allocation, you will minimize lost sales at stores, reduce split shipments, decrease leftover inventory, scale-down picking and shipping costs and diminish zone-hopping.

We can also help with pack optimization. Invent.ai Allocation creates a forecast that looks at all pack ​contents to send the optimal amount of ​merchandise within pack constraints​. The solution also determines when it makes ​financial sense to break up packs​.

The allocation solution runs workflows for season performance and alerts for core/long-life products as well as seasonal that include ad-hoc runs on top of automatic runs and strategic what-if simulations.This results in orders being automatically executed 95% of the time.

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The science behind it

The Control Tower with invent.ai Copilot provides a high-level overview of your current business status. 

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The Agent Recommendations display inventory and order issues and facilitate management by exception.

The solution also offers the ability to review completed allocation runs at a high level and drill down as needed.

The dashboard shows future visibility at store and DC level.

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Streamline your allocation​ process the invent.ai way

  • Review/approve allocations​
  • Analyze performance – lost sales/sell-through​
  • Perform ad-hoc allocations as needed
  • Review reports in UI​

This allows users time to:​

  • Review performance​
  • Review future visibility (inventory, sales)​
  • Review current strategies and run simulations
  • Improve the system with our Hub Model

Maximize sales and reduce waste with AI-driven Allocation

Invent.ai’s AI-powered allocation solution ensures inventory is positioned where it’s needed most, reducing lost sales, optimizing fulfillment and increasing overall efficiency. By continuously analyzing demand, capacity and constraints, our system dynamically adjusts allocation strategies to maximize sell-through and minimize excess stock.

AI-driven forecasting & optimization

Predicts demand at the most granular level, ensuring inventory is allocated efficiently across stores, DCs and fulfillment channels to capture every sales opportunity.

Profit-driven decision-making

Balances financial objectives with inventory constraints, optimizing stock distribution to reduce markdowns, improve margins and minimize stranded inventory.​

Streamlined fulfillment process

Reduces stockouts, split shipments and unnecessary transfers while increasing automation, so inventory moves seamlessly across locations with minimal manual intervention.​

Scenario-based & data-driven decision making

Runs strategic what-if simulations and automated workflows, allowing planners to adjust allocations dynamically and make proactive, data-backed decisions.​

“Invent.ai is one of the few companies delivering true AI solutions. Its technology surpassed our expectations, achieving superior results.”

Eya Yerkes, EVP of Planning and Allocation, Alo Yoga

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“Invent.ai's partnership approach is vastly different from our previous experiences. It changed our mindset. Rather than endless parameter maintenance, invent.ai's economic approach automated more profitable inventory levels freeing business teams to adjust and change strategies based on insights gleaned from invent.ai's science.”

John Jarrett, VP of Merchant System Operations, Academy Sports + Outdoors

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“With invent.ai, we have accelerated our demand forecasting, allocation, and replenishment capabilities significantly. Invent.ai not only has the right inventory optimization solutions, but their approach and their deep understanding of omni-channel retailing enabled us to adapt and thrive in the omni-channel retail space.”

Burak Ovunc, Former CEO, FLO

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“Our Marks & Spencer stores have seen incredible improvement in sales. Invent.ai's Allocation Optimization solution is designed maximize sales while minimizing stranded inventory.”

Batur Can, General Manager, Fiba Retail

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