We own your supply chain.
You own the business.

Forecasting, purchase orders, supplier follow-ups, receiving, counts. We run all of it as a managed service, wired together with automations and AI agents and we own the outcome when something breaks.

Nobody owns the supply chain. So you do.

The 3PL moves boxes. The manufacturer makes product. Nobody reconciles what was ordered against what landed against what's live. That gap has a name on it, and it's yours.

inventory_FINAL_v4.xlsx 12,090?
stock_count_AUG(2).csv 11,834?
counts_v2_USE_THIS.xlsx 12,388?
01

The count never matches.

Three files, three answers. The warehouse guy said close enough. Nobody's numbers are right, and every decision downstream inherits that lie.

SatRebuild the count
SunCut next month's POs
MonPretend to run the business
02

Sunday night is inventory night.

Your team went home Friday. You spent the weekend on ops. You are not the person who should still be doing this work.

Oversold Hydration Sticks · Amazon
Refund issued $48.60
Refund issued $48.60
Refund issued $48.60
03

You're refunding your own store's oversells.

Friday's count didn't make Shopify. Amazon sold three of what wasn't there. Monday morning is apologies. That's not ops, it's a slow leak.

Q4 · Demand
?
04

Q4 is a guess.

You're planning peak against three months of data that doesn't reconcile. The plan is instinct plus a prayer. Fine at $2M. Ruinous at $20M.

The cost of nobody owning it.

Nobody sends you an invoice for the chaos. It just comes out of margin, cash, and your week.

Cash Trapped
30%
That's how much inventory cash typically sleeps in SKUs that won't move, while your bestsellers go dark.
Sales Lost
90days
Behind on every stockout the moment you notice it. Lead time doesn't pause while you catch up.
Hours Wasted
10+hrs/wk
Founder time lost every week to reconciling counts, chasing POs, and playing the system.

We own the function. You run the company.

01

You stop reconciling.

One live count across every location and channel. The spreadsheets go in a drawer.

02

You stop forecasting.

Forecasts run against real sell-through. Reorder points move themselves.

03

You stop being the system.

Decisions stop routing through you. Exceptions land in one thread, on your schedule.

Every workstream, owned end to end.

Eight functions, one team, one cadence. Daily, weekly, and monthly rhythms that keep the operation running so you never have to.

Data AI Agent Action
01

Strategic Planning & Automation

Supply chain initiatives that cut cost and lift throughput. AI-first workflows across procurement analysis, supply planning scenarios, exception management, and risk monitoring.

  • LLM-driven procurement analysis
  • Scenario planning & capacity modeling
  • Exception dashboards, live
PO-4521 Receiving
Ordered500
Received462
Short38
02

Materials Requirement Planning

Supply planning translated from the approved demand plan into executable POs. Packaging and raw materials land on time, capacity constraints are flagged before they hit.

  • PO placement & tracking
  • Lead-time variability monitoring
  • Shortage & excess auto-flagging
Northline A
Kestrel B
Mizuno C
03

Procurement & Vendor Management

Supplier relationships, sourced and negotiated. Pricing agreements owned, performance measured, risk clustered so you know who to press and who to protect.

  • Supplier performance scorecards
  • Pricing trend & negotiation insights
  • Supplier risk clustering
Demand · Fleece Hoodie
Reorder in 12d
04

Inventory Management & Forecasting

Levels, forecasting, replenishment strategies. Stockouts down, excess down, working capital freed. Predictive analytics on safety stock and warehouse capacity.

  • SKU-level demand vs forecast tracking
  • Safety stock & working capital optimization
  • Warehouse capacity utilization
Line A
Line B
Line C
05

Production & Master Scheduling

Production plans and shift-level scheduling that hit forecast without wasting capacity. Changeovers minimized, run sequencing modeled, exceptions surfaced live.

  • Shift-level production schedules
  • Run sequencing & changeover reduction
  • Real-time exception dashboards
Supply Review · Weekly
M T W T F
Wed 10am · Ops sign-off
06

S&OP Leadership

We own the Supply Review inside your S&OP/IBP cycle. Supply feasibility, inventory strategy, capacity planning, and operational risk translated into a weekly cadence your team actually runs.

  • SKU-level demand vs forecast tools
  • Weekly cadence with brand stakeholders
  • AI-driven risk dashboards
Port strike · Rotterdam
Lead time · 32→41d
Supplier B, cleared
07

Risk Management

Supply disruptions, transportation delays, and compliance issues caught before they blow up the month. Geopolitical, supplier concentration, and lead-time volatility monitored in real time.

  • Geopolitical exposure alerts
  • Supplier concentration monitoring
  • Transportation delay tracking
Keep 42
Grow 18
Reduce 24
Kill 11
08

SKU Rationalization & Slotting

Profitability and velocity clustering to keep the tail from eating the head. Purchases sized in pallet quantities to keep storage tight and warehouse capacity honest.

  • Profitability & velocity clustering
  • Kill / keep / consolidate decisions
  • Pallet-quantity purchase enforcement

We work inside the systems you already own.

No forced migrations. We run in your stack and layer AI where it earns its keep.

Inventory System
IMS & ERP

POs, receiving, inventory, and costs, inside the system your finance team trusts.

Shopify + Channel Feeds
Sell-side

Live sell-through by SKU, channel, and location. The signal behind every forecast.

Demand & MRP
Planning

Whatever you're on, or a stack we spin up. Forecasting wired to real sales data.

Custom Dashboards
Visibility

Exceptions, risk, and cadence. Built to your KPIs, not a vendor's template.

Full-Time Hire vs AquiferGrowth.

Full-Time Hire
AquiferGrowth The owned function
Cost
Cost per year
$150K+ Salary, benefits, recruiter, ramp
Flat retainer Tooling and AI agents included
What you buy
One person's hours
A function: people, AI agents, tooling
Speed
Time to productive
3–6 months Search, hire, onboard, ramp
First week Data in, cadences running
Coverage
One skill set, 40 hours
Daily, weekly, monthly cadences
Risk
When they leave
The knowledge walks out with them
The system stays. We own continuity
Best fit
$50M+ complex organizations
$1M–$10M Shopify brands