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Turn transfers into a strategic advantage 
 

Transfers by invent.ai

Maximize profit dollars by rebalancing inventory across all locations.

Learn how to boost sales with transfer optimization
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2-4%

increase in sales​

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20-50%

increase in sales conversion of transfers

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10-30%

decrease in transfer logistics costs

Managing inventory transfers across a retail network is a complex challenge. Misallocated stock leads to lost sales, while excess inventory ties up capital and increases logistics costs. Retailers must continuously balance these competing priorities, ensuring products move efficiently between stores and distribution centers to meet shifting demand.

With invent.ai’s transfer solution, you can rebalance inventory across locations, moving products from underperforming areas to high-demand ones, boosting profit dollars and efficiency, and reducing lost sales and markdowns—turning transfers into a strategic advantage.

Invent.ai’s transfer optimization enhances inventory efficiency, driving an additional 2-4% increase in sales by intelligently reallocating stock across your network. It enables DC and store rebalancing, consolidates colors and sizes, and runs dynamic, automated transfer scenarios with built-in approval processes. The system tracks key performance metrics, including approval rates, execution percentages and return-to-sales ratios, while factoring in costs, lead times and demand probabilities to ensure the most efficient stock movements.

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Complete store transfer optimization

Our transfer optimization solution moves products from low-demand stores to high-demand ones, balances store capacities and manages aging stock across outlets.

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End-to-end integration with pricing and replenishment 

Our solution forecasts markdowns and promotions, eliminates unnecessary purchases, blocks irrelevant transfers and optimizes packages while respecting size and assortment rules.
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New store opening and store closing support

Invent.ai helps manage inventory by transferring excess stock from closing stores to the best-performing locations, while also fulfilling new store inventory needs by utilizing available stock from other stores.
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Maximum sales uplift with minimal logistics and operations cost

Invent.ai uses AI to calculate the expected benefit probability for each product transfer, identifying the optimal transfer plan that maximizes sales conversion and minimizes transfer costs through probabilistic sales uplift.

​Why invent.ai’s transfers solution?​

Our AI-powered Transfers solution efficiently manages inventory, forecasts demand and transfers products to maximize store performance and customer satisfaction.
 
With AI-powered transfer decisioning, invent.ai delivers forecast-driven recommendations for DC-to-store and store-to-store transfers, eliminating broken sizes and consolidating inventory for optimal sell-through. By running multiple transfer scenarios, the system helps retailers minimize logistics costs while maintaining optimal stock availability. With real-time tracking and performance insights, businesses can make data-driven transfer decisions that reduce waste, improve sell-through and maximize profitability. Here’s how our AI adds value:
 
  • Automates your transfer runs​
  • Moves merchandise where it makes you the most money​
  • Allows you to review and approve your runs​
  • Provides analysis and detailed review of your KPIs and transfer sales performance​
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The science behind it

Invent.ai offers four transfer options for optimization, including performance transfer, capacity transfer, consolidate inventory and clear inventory.

Transfer optimization is triggered when replenishment is no longer expected in the lifecycle of the merchandise. It runs with either optimized or manually selected store regions.

The tool allows users to work with different types of assortment constraints, including regular, weighted and custom, for values such as number of transfers, labor capacity, time of day, product/brand restrictions, store restrictions, capacity/minimum consideration and freeze inventory.

Transfer optimization maximizes profit by considering transfer costs, lead times, product lifecycle and probability of lost sales, as well as the time the product is unavailable. Here’s what store scenarios used for transfers look like.

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Transfers are run based on a schedule, or users can perform ad-hoc runs.
Our visual dashboard makes it easy to review and approve transfer runs. 

One big win with this solution is the ability to track the monthly performance of transfers as well as product availability.

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Streamline your markdown pricing​ process the invent.ai way

  • Set up scheduled transfer runs​
  • Review / approve runs​
  • Create Ad-hoc Transfers as needed​
  • Analyze performance/review reports in UI​
    /approve markdowns​

This allows users time to:​

  • Review/measure success of transfers​
  • Review future visibility (inventory, promotions)​
  • Review current strategies and run simulations​
  • Improve the system with our Hub Model

AI-powered inventory transfers for maximum efficiency

Our Transfers solution helps you rebalance inventory across locations to maximize efficiency, moving products from underperforming areas to high-demand locations, minimizing lost sales and markdown losses. By leveraging AI-driven insights, you can strategically allocate inventory where it's needed most, improving availability, reducing costs and increasing sales performance. Here’s what you’ll see:

Optimized inventory utilization

Strategically transfer inventory to boost availability, productivity and cash conversion.

Proactive inventory management

Anticipating demand fluctuations, our solution proactively rebalances inventory, reducing out-of-stocks and ensuring stores are well-stocked to meet customer needs.

Sales and turnover boost

Our transfer optimization identifies high-demand locations, ensuring that inventory is directed to the right stores, increasing sales conversion and overall turnover.

Cost-effective transfers

Streamlining inter-store transfers, our solution reduces logistics costs while improving the efficiency of moving inventory across locations to meet demand.

“Invent.ai's Transfers helps us dynamically manage the inventory imbalance between the stores. We can now sell products with higher turnover, higher GMROI and lower markdowns and lower logistics costs."

Sinan Sefai, Chief Sourcing and Supply Chain Officer, Mavi

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“Invent.ai's transfer optimization solution has contributed a 4.8% increase in sales by proactively rebalancing inventory across locations and reducing out-of-stocks. We’ve seen a significant increase in turnover. The markdown loss and logistics-costs are decreased. Importantly, invent.ai helped us reach beyond optimizing KPIs and boost our financial performance."

Arda Sirin, Supply Chain & Merchandising Planning Director, Boyner

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