Flowlity vs supplychainpy

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.

supplychainpy is a Python library for supply chain analysis, modeling, and simulation, aimed at commercial inventory and demand-planning analysts. Its inventory features include ABC XYZ classification, safety stock, reorder levels, economic order quantity, service-level targets, and replenishment recommendations. Forecasting options include simple exponential smoothing and Holt’s trend-corrected exponential smoothing; ARIMA models remain under development. The reporting suite presents charts, tables, KPIs, inventory summaries, and recommendations, with a bot for querying analysis in natural language. Inputs can be CSV or text files, Pandas DataFrames, or data supplied through a database ETL process. The maker describes use with Pandas, Jupyter, Matplotlib, openpyxl, and xlwings. Installation is available through pip or from source, and the reporting suite can run locally with configurable host and port settings. Command examples cover Linux, Mac, and Windows. The project is licensed under BSD-3 and is free. Its maker warns that the library is in early development and unsuitable for production because its API may change.