Alternative Sourcing Cost Avoidance
What we deliver
The Problem (Before)
Retailers, especially grocery, will source product from higher-cost distributors or vendors when they lack confidence in when inbound products will arrive and there is risk of impacting in-stock percentage. These emergency purchases at premium pricing erode margins, particularly during seasonal or promotional periods when availability is critical.
Supply Chain Manager
The Outcome (After)
Shipment Twin provides real-time ETA on all inbound supply. Inventory Twin projects stock-out risk by SKU and facility. FourSight AI surfaces at-risk SKUs with enough lead time for planners to intervene on the primary supply path rather than triggering expensive alternative sourcing.
FourKites uniquely combines supplier-level inbound visibility with SKU-level inventory risk scoring to predict stockout risk days before it materializes, enabling proactive intervention rather than reactive emergency purchasing.
Tracy
How it works
By providing early warning on inbound supply delays, FourKites enables retailers to intervene on primary supply paths before resorting to expensive alternative sourcing, protecting margins while maintaining in-stock rates.
- Supplier performance benchmarks
- Lead time intelligence
This intelligence exists because the Graph aggregates behavior across 882 enterprise shippers, 10,164 carriers, and 3.6 million facilities over 11 years. No single company's data could produce it.
FourKites uniquely combines supplier-level inbound visibility with SKU-level inventory risk scoring to predict stockout risk days before it materializes, enabling proactive intervention rather than reactive emergency purchasing. The intelligence layer is what makes the difference. Building the basic capability is straightforward. Building it on top of 11 years of cross-company supply chain intelligence, with continuous learning from 2.5 million agent actions per month, is what took a decade and cannot be replicated with software alone.
Shipment Twin, Inventory Twin, Order Twin
Tracy executes the workflow. Every action recorded with full decision trace.
Cross-company intelligence powering every decision
- FourSight AI: "Which SKUs are at the highest stockout risk this week?"
- Custom Insights: SKU-level risk dashboards
Inventory Optimization Transformation
- Stock-Out-Driven Priority Routing
- Inventory-Aware Inbound Orchestration
- AI-Powered STO Rebalancing
- Network Inventory Re-Balancing
- Premium Shipment Spend Reduction via ETA Confidence
Validation
Deployment Evidence
Expected Impact Range
Related outcomes
Every supplier document processed and linked to orders automatically. Zero manual data entry. For supplier-managed shipments, FourKites creates shipments and updates orders directly from these documents, eliminating manual shipment creation entirely.
Your logistics team never makes another carrier check call. Every exception resolved before it impacts delivery.
New suppliers live on the platform in days, not weeks. No IT projects required. FourKites onboards suppliers by leveraging documents and the underlying carriers already connected through our existing 500K+ carrier network.
One billion hours of operational work completed by AI agents over the next decade.
