Best Demand Forecasting & Inventory Optimization Companies

SAS provides software and solutions for business analytics, data management, and AI, used to gather, manage, and analyze corporate information. It offers business analytics SaaS for a range of industries that include agriculture, banking, education, healthcare, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing, retail and consumer goods, public sector, sports, telecommunications and utility industries. The company was founded in 1976 and is based in Cary, North Carolina.

Crisp provides a platform that uses data available to create a precise forecast for suppliers, food brands, retailers and distributors in order to optimize profitability and drive production efficiency. The company offers a platform that connects and analyzes retail data across the supply chain. Crisp serves suppliers, distributors, retailers and agencies in the global food industry. The company was formerly known as Motiion and changed it's name to Crisp. Crisp was founded in 2018 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Deck Internet Solutions, dba Deck Commerce, is a SaaS eCommerce platform that connects front-end shopping channels with back-end business systems and streamlines the processes for managing orders, inventory, and product data. Features include support for enterprise inventory visibility, universal product information, and distributed order management. The company leverages advanced technology to deliver a flexible solution that is both scalable and cost-effective.

Flowlity develops a supply chain network. It provides better replenishment and stock optimization using a combination of cognitive computing, machine learning, and optimization. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.

Focal Systems provides solutions for retailers to improve inventory management, reduce out-of-stocks, enhance the shopper experience, and optimize checkout lanes. Focal's solutions consist of devices in stores that leverage machine learning and computer vision technology. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Burlingame, California.

Impact Analytics offers a 360-degree AI-powered retail automation platform that enables enterprises to automate their complex workflows and helps them turn their data into insights. The platform provides features for demand planning, supply chain, merchandising, pricing and promotions, and business intelligence. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Linthicum Heights, Maryland.

Noodle.ai provides professional services, apps, and technical solutions to companies to improve efficiency, reduce waste of all types, improve decision making, and optimize business processes via customer data analytics, product data analytics, and enterprise data analytics. It offers an innovative AI-driven platform and inventory flow that deploys pioneering data science technology, including deep probabilistic predictions, graphical neural networks and reinforcement learning to companies’ existing systems of record and systems of planning to find and resolve massive numbers of undetected problems in the supply chain. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Pensa is an innovator in autonomous perception systems for retail inventory. Its system uses artificial intelligence, autonomous drones and computer vision to see and understand what’s on store shelves, providing data to minimize stockouts, optimize product planning, and boost revenues and profitability. Pensa partners with retailers and CPG brands globally to address a trillion-dollar “blind spot” at a critical time for the retail industry.

Simbe Robotics gives retailers visibility into the state of merchandise in their stores through Tally, an autonomous shelf-auditing and analytics solution that combines artificial intelligence, computer vision, and deep analytics to scan and analyze retailers’ shelves in real-time. Simbe is able to process this data on the edge and in the cloud, delivering up-to-date insights multiple times per day via API.

SkuVault develops eCommerce inventory management software to connect channels, organize warehouses and manage inventory. It offers cloud-based data sharing, eCommerce inventory visibility and reporting, processes and warehouse organization, and marketplace ratings. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky. In September 2022, SkuVault was acquired by linnworks. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Youhualin provides a package of intelligent decision-making solutions covering data strategy consulting to software solution implementation. The company serves enterprise customers in the fields of transportation and supply chain. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Shanghai, China.