Network Inventory Re-Balancing
What we deliver
The Problem (Before)
Facilities preemptively request stock transfer orders (STOs) to hedge against inbound materials that may or may not arrive on time. Without confidence in arrival timing, planners trigger unnecessary inter-facility transfers to ensure there is not a line stoppage or stockout. These hedging STOs consume transportation budget, create excess inventory at receiving sites, and add operational complexity.
Supply Chain Manager
The Outcome (After)
Shipment Twin provides high-confidence ETAs on inbound materials. Inventory Twin shows projected stock positions at all facilities. AI-powered recommendations identify when existing inbound supply eliminates the need for an STO, preventing unnecessary transfers before they're initiated.
FourKites is the only platform that combines real-time inbound visibility with multi-facility inventory position intelligence, enabling planners to distinguish between genuine supply gaps and visibility gaps.
How it works
By providing high-confidence inbound arrival data to planners, FourKites eliminates the uncertainty that drives defensive STO creation, reducing unnecessary inter-facility transfers and their associated freight and handling costs.
- Network-derived lead time predictions
- Facility-level demand signals
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 is the only platform that combines real-time inbound visibility with multi-facility inventory position intelligence, enabling planners to distinguish between genuine supply gaps and visibility gaps. 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, Facility Twin
Cross-company intelligence powering every decision
- FourSight AI: "Which DCs have the largest inventory gaps this week?"
- Custom Insights: STO analysis and inventory gap reporting
Inventory Optimization Transformation
- Stock-Out-Driven Priority Routing
- Inventory-Aware Inbound Orchestration
- AI-Powered STO Rebalancing
- Alternative Sourcing Cost Avoidance
- 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.
