Decision Automation for Distributors

Wholesale distributors sit in the middle of the supply chain. They manage thousands of SKUs across multi-echelon networks and serve customers with very different service level expectations, while absorbing cost pressure from both suppliers and buyers at once. Margins are already thin, so planning failures hurt quickly. They show up as lost customer contracts, excess inventory that erodes working capital, and emergency procurement that inflates landed cost.

Solvoyo forecasts demand automatically across long-tail SKU portfolios, using AI/ML methods that select the best forecasting approach for each SKU. The choice depends on demand pattern, velocity and history length. This covers slow-movers, intermittent sellers and seasonal items, which traditional statistical models handle poorly. Customer-specific order patterns, promotional events and seasonal profiles feed in automatically, so distributors get a reliable demand signal across the full portfolio, including the items that manual attention does not reach.

Solvoyo optimizes inventory targets at the same time across every DC and warehouse node, using multi-echelon inventory optimization with dynamic safety stock calculation. Buffer levels are recalibrated continuously from service level targets, demand variability and lead time uncertainty at each echelon. Duzey achieved a 10% reduction in overall inventory investment while simultaneously achieving a 10% reduction in lost sales. Optimizing inventory across the full network makes both gains possible at once.

Solvoyo generates purchase orders automatically by evaluating multiple suppliers at once. It compares lead times, unit costs, minimum order quantities and volume discount thresholds, then selects the cost-minimizing sourcing option that still protects OTIF targets for each customer segment. It also consolidates replenishment needs across multiple warehouse nodes into unified supplier orders that meet MOQ, pallet configuration and full truckload thresholds. That cuts freight cost per unit and reaches volume discounts that individual warehouse orders would never hit.

Solvoyo optimizes inbound and outbound transportation concurrently with inventory and replenishment planning. Freight costs, carrier constraints and delivery windows are factored into purchasing and fulfillment decisions at the moment those decisions are made, with no after-the-fact reconciliation by a separate logistics team. g2m redesigned fulfillment and transportation operations for better efficiency. It optimized inventory investment versus service level commitments across its HoReCa distribution network. Inbound consolidation maximizes load utilization, and outbound routing optimizes multi-stop delivery schedules against customer service windows and fleet constraints.

Recommendations are good enough that planners rarely edit them, so distribution customers reach 95%+ automation on daily ordering and replenishment decisions.

Yes. Solvoyo works with businesses at any level of digital maturity, including teams that plan entirely in spreadsheets. In the Digitize step, we run automated data diagnostics on your existing data, wherever it lives, to find gaps, inconsistencies and quality issues. Our AI then helps fill in missing data points and improve your input data, so you do not need years of system cleanup before you start. That shortens the path from where you are today to autonomous, no-touch planning.