Right Sized Inventory
Our Approach

Assess.
Operationalize.
Continuously Improve.

Every engagement starts with a diagnostic, not a sales pitch. Assessment findings determine exactly which services get operationalized alongside your team.

We Amplify Planners. We Do Not Replace Them.

Your team owns the plan, the policies, and the outcomes. You decide what gets implemented. Your planners execute through your existing systems and processes.

How It Fits Together

The Decision-Quality Problem

Most companies don't have a problem making supply chain decisions. They have a decision-quality problem. Inventory, replenishment, network, and planning decisions are made every week with imperfect data, generic formulas, and overloaded teams. Better decisions, not more software, are what move service, working capital, and execution.

The cost lands on both sides of the balance sheet. Too much inventory restricts working capital and drags the bottom line; too little drives costly expedites, damages customer service, and throttles the top line. Meanwhile planners are inundated with dozens of daily priorities, so the inventory question gets set aside for long stretches.

FIG. 1POSITION VS SIMULATED POLICYSIMULATED SS · ROP · MAXEXCESSSHORTDC WESTDC EASTSAME SKU · SAME WEEK · ONE NETWORK

Why Assessment Comes First

Five modular assessments: Inventory, Network & Distribution, Planning, Strategy & Operating Model, and AI Adoption. You scope which modules to evaluate, and the findings determine which services RSI operationalizes with your team.

Traditional planning systems rely on basic formulas that cannot account for critical real-world supply chain factors, so they do not represent each item’s actual variation and constraints. The assessment establishes where that gap is costing you before anything is implemented.

FIG. 2ASSESSMENT SCOPE, CLIENT-SETMODULEA1INVENTORYA2NETWORK & DISTRIBUTIONA3PLANNINGA4STRATEGY & OPERATINGA5AI ADOPTION1YOU SCOPE WHAT GETS ASSESSED

From Findings to Roadmap

Assessment surfaces findings, root causes, AI maturity, and a recommended roadmap. The assessment is the diagnostic; it identifies which Operational Decision Services actually close the gaps, rather than producing a generic maturity score.

Where inventory policy is in scope, the RSI engine is run against current policies as part of the diagnostic, benchmarking them against modeled real-world variability to surface mis-positioned items rather than asserting a gap in the abstract.

FIG. 3FINDINGS RANKED INTO SERVICESFINDINGSROADMAP1ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSIS[1]SERVICE[2]SERVICE[3]SERVICE

Operationalize, Side by Side

Continuous services that drive better day-to-day supply chain decisions. RSI experts work as an extension of your team to design, implement, deploy, and sustain the services that close the gaps the assessment surfaced. The work is delivered side-by-side, not handed off as a static report.

This is the delivery model RSI was built on: technology paired with a supply chain team that implements it, so the analytics get into daily use quickly rather than waiting on an integration project. Data is exchanged on a defined cadence through a shared, controlled repository, with no direct system-to-system integration required to start.

FIG. 4EXCHANGE ON A DEFINED CADENCEYOUR PLATFORMRSISHAREDREPOSITORYITEM DATADEMANDOPEN SUPPLYPOLICIESACTION LISTS1NO SYSTEM-TO-SYSTEM INTEGRATION

Continuous Decision Support

Monthly, weekly, and daily decision rhythms sustain improvement. RSI augments your team without taking ownership away from the business.

Policies are refreshed monthly, action lists weekly, and scenario runs happen on demand whenever the business needs them: disruptions, demand shifts, new product launches, network changes. RSI’s patented predictive analytics has been addressing inventory imbalances for enterprises since 2013.

Each cycle runs on the same technology: the simulation-based inventory optimization engine, the capabilities built around it, and a deep analytics layer that reads across the results so RSI experts can explain what changed and why.

Operational Decision Science
FIG. 5DECISION RHYTHMSMONTHLYPOLICY REFRESHWEEKLYACTION LISTSDAILYALERTSON DEMAND

Assessments and Services

Each one began as a problem a client asked RSI to solve.
A1–A5 Supply Chain Assessment Know what to fix before deciding what to implement. +

Five modular assessments. Your team scopes which modules to evaluate, and the findings drive which services we operationalize together.

  • A1 Inventory
  • A2 Network & Distribution
  • A3 Planning
  • A4 Strategy & Operating Model
  • A5 AI Adoption
Full service detail
O1 Inventory Optimization Simulation-based policies for every item, every location. +

Simulation-based, item × location inventory policies built for real-world variability rather than formula assumptions. The epicenter of RSI’s better science.

  • Best-fit statistical pattern for every item × location
  • Day-by-day simulation with random demand and random lead times
  • Monthly policies with a decision narrative for every item
Full service detail
O2 Network Balancing Move inventory where it creates the most service value. +

The network is rarely short on inventory. It is short on inventory in the right place. Every SKU × location is scored weekly against its own simulated policy.

  • Node-level Red / Yellow / Green / Blue health, refreshed weekly
  • Surplus nodes feed at-risk nodes before new POs are cut
  • Full-pallet, source-protected transfer recommendations by lane
Full service detail
O3 Priority Planning Services (PRIO) Prioritized, daily replenishment action for planners. +

Optimized policies turned into a prioritized, executable playbook: what to build, where, and when, at the SKU, cell, and location level.

  • Capacity-aware scheduling: Demand-Driven, Inventory-Target, Capacity-Fill
  • A ranked daily action list instead of a maze of exceptions
  • Proactive alerts on spikes, safety-stock gaps, and overstock
Full service detail
O4 Strategy & Operating Services Build the management system behind better decisions. +

The SIOP/S&OE management system that ties sales, planning, operations, and finance, wrapped in strategy, governance, change, and continuous improvement.

  • Strategy alignment and operating model design
  • Decision rights, governance, and escalation paths
  • Change management and a continuous improvement engine
Full service detail
O5 AI Automation We automated our own business. Then clients asked how. +

RSI built these capabilities inside its own business first, and clients asked for them next. Work starts with one well-defined piece and expands only where the result earns it.

  • Data preparation, validation, and exception handling automated end to end
  • Assistants over contracts, policies, specifications, and compliance material
  • Workflow and reporting automation across operations and customer support
Full service detail

Start with the diagnostic, not the solution.

Scope your own assessment across the five modules.

Start with a Supply Chain Assessment