The margin is in the right stock, in the right DC.
Distributors win on availability and lose on inventory. With thousands of SKUs across several warehouses, imbalances hide in plain sight. WERISCO finds them and shows the inventory value on each side.
SKUs · Warehouses · Customer demand · Transport · Inventory positioning
How the chain actually behaves
Industrial and wholesale distributors carry tens of thousands of SKUs from hundreds of suppliers across several DCs, on single-digit net margins. Availability is the product. Every point of excess inventory and every expedited transfer eats directly into profit.
- 01
Network imbalance
One DC long, another short, on the same SKU.
- 02
Supplier minimums
MOQs and price breaks that push excess into the network.
- 03
Inter-DC transfers
Frequent, costly, reactive stock moves.
- 04
Dead stock
Slow movers accumulating quietly across sites.
From network imbalance to rebalanced stock
- Step 01
WERISCO lists 214 SKUs below reorder point in Dallas
- Step 02
Shows the same SKUs held above target in Columbus, with the value
- Step 03
Checks open POs for Dallas and when they arrive against cover
- Step 04
Recommends which SKUs to look at first, with the evidence
- Step 05
Supply team decides on transfers and PO changes
industrial MRO distributor
$150M revenue, 3 DCs, 28,000 SKUs, 400 suppliers.
- 01Columbus carries 41 days cover on 214 SKUs
- 02Dallas carries 4 days on the same SKUs
- 03Dallas replenishment PO arrives in 12 days
- 04Fill-rate risk on 60 key accounts
Transfer 900 units via Thursday consolidation, cancel 600 on PO #5102.
- Fill rate
- Availability is what distributors sell.
- Inventory turns
- Thin margins demand fast cash cycles.
- Transfer cost
- The cost of network imbalance.
- Dead-stock value
- Cash lost to the long tail.
- Stockout on high-velocity items
- Supplier consolidation reducing options
- Warehouse capacity peaks
- Freight cost inflation
Signals · Cover by DC · Inbound POs · Transfer history · Customer order lines
Supply chain audit
See where your supply chain is exposed.
A 20-minute call and two file exports: stock by item and open orders. You see the inventory and order value exposed. No integration, no savings estimate, and an NDA if you need one.