FourKites introduced a new Inventory Twin, which bridges the gap between planning and execution without trying to make either system something it’s not.
Operating in the critical 30- to 90-day execution window, Inventory Twin continuously checks whether plans remain executable against real-world constraints — storage capacity, shifting customer orders, product plan changes — and flags issues before they become disruptions.
When risks arise, the system recommends and enables corrective actions:
- Combine those two pallets with an existing LTL shipment
- Shift a safety stock replenishment by a day to free up dock space
- Divert a transfer to a location with available inventory and execute the change through integrated workflows
This measured approach starts with predictive intelligence — spotting stockout risks weeks in advance — and progressively adds recommendations and selective automation to maximize value across the inventory management workflow.
Key takeaways:
· The Inventory Twin builds on FourKites' decade-long foundation of processing millions of daily supply chain events across road, rail, ocean, and air, creating the context needed for intelligent decisions.
· Unlike traditional control towers that require months of master data cleansing, FourKites builds intelligence from the transactions already flowing through your systems. Every entity becomes a node in the network: product, supplier, customer, order, shipment.
· The system moves beyond calculated inventory positions to actual physical reality.
· Every recommendation factors in real operational constraints: minimum shipment sizes, available transportation modes and costs, fill rates, dock schedules, and warehouse capacity limits. The system evaluates total costs, including expediting, storage overages, and service failures. This ensures recommendations are executable, not just mathematically optimal.
· The Inventory Twin is easily deployed and sits on top of existing technology and system architectures.
