Flowlity vs Trinamix Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization

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.

Trinamix Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization is a cloud-based web solution for positioning inventory across plants, distribution centers and retailers. It operates as a microservice with Oracle supply planning and models interdependent supply-chain stages using mathematical algorithms and historical behavior. Planners can adjust parameters, simulate inventory levels and assess effects across the network. The optimization infers postponement and risk pooling, accounts for demand and supply disruptions, and calculates safety stock by comparing marginal inventory utility with inventory positions. Stochastic forecasting estimates possible outcomes and probabilities for inventory targets, while machine learning converts supply and demand uncertainty into variability. An inventory-entitlement mechanism separates stock drivers such as errors and disruptions. A genetic algorithm optimizes inventory holding under budget constraints. Integrations include Oracle Cloud SCM, ERP systems and third-party systems such as SAP; Trinamix also lists the product on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. The maker identifies retail, consumer goods, manufacturing and high-tech industries as users. Pricing is on request. Trinamix lists the company as founded in 2009 and headquartered in the United States, while also identifying San Jose, California.