08 — Inventory, Pricing & Promotion Optimization

Demand Forecasting & Inventory Optimization

We forecast demand at SKU and location level with AI models, then size and place inventory across your whole network — so availability goes up while the cash locked in stock comes down.

Planning respects the things that actually break forecasts: promotions, seasonality, shelf life and real-world supply constraints. Your planners stop rebuilding spreadsheets and start managing exceptions.

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Your challenges

What's holding you back right now?

  • Forecasts are unreliable, so you fight stockouts and overstocks at the same time.
  • Too much cash sits in slow-moving, seasonal or obsolete inventory.
  • A single promotion, heatwave or holiday makes the whole plan obsolete overnight.
  • Service levels are set once, globally — never tuned by category, channel or region.
  • Planning lives in spreadsheets and in the heads of two or three people.
  • Finance, sales and supply chain each work from a different demand number.
When it matters

You'll benefit when you are…

  • Expanding your network and needing forecasts that hold at both DC and store level
  • Preparing for a peak — Christmas, back-to-school, Black Friday — where being wrong is expensive
  • Losing margin to waste, expiries and markdowns in fresh or promotional goods
  • Centralising buying and replenishment across many branches, banners or channels
  • Launching or scaling e-commerce and click-and-collect alongside physical stores
  • Planning production capacity and needing a demand signal operations can actually trust
  • Building the business case for automation, a new DC or a network redesign
Outcomes

What we deliver

Availability where it pays

Reach 98–99% availability on the items that drive your revenue, while lost sales and emergency orders fall away.

Leaner working capital

Free 10–20% of the capital currently tied up in stock — without pushing the risk onto your customers.

Replenishment that runs itself

Daily order proposals that already account for lead times, MOQs, supplier reliability and logistics capacity.

Fewer write-offs and markdowns

Expiry-aware planning and demand sensing cut waste while keeping fresh stock on the shelf.

One version of demand truth

A single forecasting logic feeding sales, supply chain, finance and production planning.

Planner time given back

Routine order building is automated. Your team spends its day on exceptions and real decisions.

Balance availability, working capital and planner effort — instead of trading one against the others.

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What makes us different

Augment Cloud experts at your service

  • Deep supply chain focus with 20+ years across retail, FMCG, pharma and manufacturing.
  • Consulting and proprietary software from one team — never one without the other.
  • Proven VERITICO STOCK deployments in grocery, e-commerce, pharmacy and specialty retail.
  • We start with portfolio segmentation, service-level strategy and data quality — not with a tool install.
  • Transparent algorithms and reporting: planners always see why the system proposed an order.
  • Vendor-independent consulting that fits around your existing ERP, WMS and processes.

AI-first demand and inventory planning

AI here is a workhorse, not a slogan. VERITICO blends statistical methods, machine learning and neural networks to forecast demand, predict promotional response and optimise orders — automatically picking the most suitable model for each SKU and location rather than forcing one method across the whole portfolio.

Where data is sparse or unstable, we layer AI with business rules, portfolio segmentation and planner input. Demand sensing reacts quickly to recent deviations caused by competitors, weather or holidays, while seasonality and life-cycle modelling capture patterns such as Christmas or Easter without overfitting to one-off spikes.

That approach is backed by two decades of investment in AI for supply chain, more than 80 companies running the platform, and a significant share of revenue reinvested into R&D every year.

VERITICO STOCK: the engine behind better decisions

VERITICO STOCK is the purpose-built, configurable platform powering demand forecasting, inventory management and replenishment in this solution. It delivers automated forecasts, demand sensing, portfolio segmentation, expiry-aware planning and optimised order proposals — and integrates with the ERP and warehouse systems you already run.

Because we are both a consulting partner and a software provider, projects move from strategy to daily practice faster and with far fewer handovers.

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Case studies

Demand and inventory, solved in the real world

Inventory optimisation for Traficon's retail network

Centralised inventory across a nationwide network — availability of top sellers up, dead stock significantly reduced.

Top sellers availability up · Dead stock down Show full case study →

Seasonal inventory optimisation for Zeelandia

VERITICO Stock helps Zeelandia manage strong seasonal demand — availability up while stock capital and turnover time drop.

+9% availability · −18% capital · −36% turnover Show full case study →

Inventory optimization for SIKO

On-shelf availability raised to 98.5% while cutting inventory by CZK 40 million and freeing warehouse capacity.

98.5% availability · −CZK 40M inventory Show full case study →

Higher availability with less waste at Kosik.cz

VERITICO Stock with automated ordering: 97% availability, −75% waste; fresher goods and leaner operations.

97% availability · −75% waste Show full case study →

AI-based inventory optimization for 490 pharmacies

VERITICO STOCK deployed across a national pharmacy network — automated ordering and optimised delivery schedules.

+5% revenue · +4% availability · 2h saved per pharmacy/day Show full case study →

Inventory optimization for CZC.cz

A leading Czech electronics e-shop used VERITICO Stock to manage 40,000 SKUs — availability up and profit up.

+10% availability · up to +8% profit (key categories) Show full case study →

Automated forecasting and ordering for EMOS

EMOS consolidated planning on VERITICO to automate forecasting and ordering across 1,300+ products.

98% availability · −17% stock working capital Show full case study →

Better availability and fresher stock at scale

Since 2017, a unified platform automating inventory and ordering across 300+ stores — one source of truth, fuller shelves, fairer prices.

Platform live across 300+ stores Show full case study →

Spare-parts inventory for ORLEN Unipetrol

Inventory value cut by 25% while safeguarding the availability of mission-critical spare parts.

−25% inventory value · 100% critical availability Show full case study →
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Turn demand volatility into a predictable inventory strategy

If your supply chain is complex, multi-channel and squeezed by customers and finance at the same time, we can help you stabilise demand, right-size inventory and automate replenishment. Tell us where it hurts and we will come back with a sized opportunity.

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