Flowlity vs SAS Intelligent Inventory Management

Flowlity is an AI-powered supply chain forecasting and planning solution for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Its platform covers demand planning, inventory optimization, supply planning, sales and operations planning, and collaborative planning. Probabilistic forecasts are generated at SKU level from a company’s sales history and supply chain data, helping planners account for uncertainty in demand or lead times. Recommendations can factor in minimum order quantities, batch sizes, full truck or container loads, and Incoterms. The AI monitors spikes, anomalies, and stockouts, and corrects outliers with synthetic resampling. Flowlity lists connectors for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Cegid, Odoo, and Sage, plus API and SFTP data transfers. Flowlity Lite costs €249 a month, supports up to 5,000 SKUs, and relies on CSV uploads rather than native ERP integration. Enterprise pricing depends on SKU count or inventory value and includes a one-time implementation fee. The company says customer data is hosted in Azure data centers in France, isolated by customer, and encrypted in transit and at rest.

SAS Intelligent Inventory Management is a web-based suite for retail and consumer packaged goods companies planning sizes, purchasing and inventory. It combines SAS Size Optimization and SAS Inventory Optimization, using historical sales, analytics and machine learning to produce size, demand and inventory intelligence. Size features create demand-based profiles, support event scenarios, detect active size ranges and work across hierarchy levels. Products can be grouped by hierarchy or attributes, with new products matched to attribute profiles. Pack recommendations can apply usage and variation constraints, combine packs with bulk and account for supply-chain costs, lifecycle changes and promotions. Inventory planning calculates stock levels across the supply chain and supports replenishment policies based on lead times, costs and target service levels. What-if analysis compares scenarios, proposal costs and policy effects across single- and multi-echelon networks. SAS says the Viya version can deploy on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, but SAS Intelligent Inventory Optimization is unavailable on Viya from release 2024.04 onward.