The Forecast That Cut Stockouts 61%

See how a pragmatic demand model — monitored and retrained on a weekly schedule — kept shelves stocked without ballooning inventory.

−61% stockouts
ML & Forecasting

Executive Summary

This Is The Way

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The Way It Was

A direct-to-consumer retailer was losing real sales to stockouts on its fastest-moving SKUs, while sitting on dead inventory elsewhere in the catalog. Reordering ran on gut feel and stale spreadsheets, so the two failure modes — running out of what people wanted, and tying up cash in what they didn't — kept happening at the same time, for different products, every season.

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