AI Inventory Intelligence
AI-powered inventory intelligence for modern manufacturers.
Traceflow pairs an AI decision platform with the experts who operationalize it detecting inventory risks early, prioritizing the decisions that protect working capital, and helping planning, quality, procurement, and finance act before value is written off. Across pharma, medical devices, electronics, automotive, chemicals, and industrial manufacturing.
ISO 27001 & SOC 2 Type 2 certified
Platform + expert services, together
Built for complex, regulated manufacturing
Up to 30%
Reduction in excess & obsolete inventory
10–20%
Improvement in inventory turns
50%
Faster inventory investigations
90%
Fewer manual inventory reviews
Millions
In working capital unlocked
â—‡ Illustrative outcome ranges based on manufacturing benchmarks and deployments. Actual results may vary.
Across manufacturing
Different industries, the same inventory blind spot.
Excess, obsolescence, and stranded working capital show up everywhere materials move. Traceflow adapts to the way each industry tracks, ages, and writes off inventory.
Life Sciences
Expiring lots, rejected batches, and CDMO liability that hit the E&O reserve before anyone flags them.
Chemicals
Shelf-life, batch, and storage cost exposure on materials that quietly age out of spec.
Food & Beverage
Perishable lots and date code risk where a missed signal becomes spoilage.
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
SKU proliferation and promotional over stock turning into markdowns and disposal.
Energy & Resources
Critical spares, long lead equipment, and MRO stock stranding capital across remote sites.
Materials
Grade, lot, and commodity price swings leaving raw and semi-finished stock over-held and aging.
Medical Devices
UDI-tracked components and shelf-life-limited stock aging across distributed inventory.
Aerospace & Defense
Long-lead inventory, configuration changes, and serialized parts under strict traceability.
Automotive Components
End-of-life parts, engineering changes, and supplier obligations stranding inventory mid-program.
The problem
In manufacturing, inventory risk hides until it's already a write-off.
â—€ Signals exist here — owned by no one
Week 0
Hidden risk
Week 4
Missed signals
Week 8
No accountability
Quarter-end
Write-off
Finance recognizes the loss here â–¶
For manufacturers, excess and obsolete inventory rarely announces itself. Forecasts shift, products get rejected, specs and engineering change, customers cancel and by the time finance sees it in the inventory reserve, the value is already gone. The data that would have caught it early sits scattered across ERP, quality systems, and spreadsheets, owned by no one in particular.
The cost shows up as:
Slow-moving and expiring materials no one flagged in time
Stranded WIP and raw materials with unclear liability
Storage costs and chargebacks that never get billed back to the right party
Reserves and write-offs that surprise finance every quarter
Audit exposure when MRB/IRB decisions aren't consistently documented
The Traceflow platform
Stop writing off inventory you could still recover.
Traceflow is an AI decision platform for modern manufacturers. It continuously monitors materials, flags excess and obsolete risk early, routes every decision to the right owner, and helps you recover trapped value before it becomes a write-off backed by a team that gets you implemented without disrupting compliance.
Detect risk as it forms
Not at quarter-end
Route every decision
To the right owner
Recover trapped value
Before the write-off
Digital MRB/IRB + automated responsibility
Manufacturing & Quality
Flag inventory for MRB/IRB review (expiry, slow-moving, holds). Trigger obsolescence alerts tied to rejected batches, quality events, demand shifts, or regulatory changes. Run liability assessments to allocate stranded WIP/materials to the right customer or project. Route proposals for internal/external approval and auto-generate chargebacks with PO enforcement.
In this stage
Forecast intelligence
Planning
Connect forecast signals to inventory exposure and upcoming risk. Highlight items trending toward slow-moving or excess status before they age out.
In this stage
Materials & contract intelligence
Procurement
Link purchases to projects and customers with expected usage. Extract key contract terms — liability, forecast-change clauses, storage terms — and connect them directly to the inventory they govern.
In this stage
Traceability from day one
Inbound & Receiving
Capture received materials by lot, stage, and project/customer association, creating a clean starting point for accountability and aging.
In this stage
Visibility, aging & billing
Storage & Warehousing
Real-time visibility across sites and locations, aging and expiry-risk analysis, and storage-cost calculation with internal allocation or customer chargebacks.
In this stage
Catch orphan inventory early
Change Management
Capture BOM, packaging/artwork, spec, and regulatory-driven changes — then surface exactly which inventory is impacted and the recommended next action.
In this stage
Close the loop with documentation
Returns & Disposal
Track returned and cancelled stock and its associated liability, enable liquidation or resale where applicable, and manage destruction and disposal with proper codes and audit-ready documentation.
In this stage
Reserves, write-offs & recovery
Financial Reconciliation
Real-time E&O reserve insights based on live inventory status and risk, and clean reconciliation of write-offs, reserves, billed fees, and enforced liability for returned or cancelled stock.
In this stage
OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK
Lifecycle workflow
Cross-functional AI agents orchestrate inventory risk detection, ownership, and decision-making across every stage
One continuous system
One platform across the entire inventory lifecycle.
Traceflow connects your scattered inventory data into a single, accountable workflow then puts AI agents to work at every stage, from planning through financial reconciliation. Instead of catching problems at quarter-end, you see risk forming in real time and act on it while there's still value to recover.
Digital MRB/IRB workflows
Digital MRB/IRB + automated responsibility
Manufacturing & Quality
Flag inventory for MRB/IRB review (expiry, slow-moving, holds). Trigger obsolescence alerts tied to rejected batches, quality events, demand shifts, or regulatory changes. Run liability assessments to allocate stranded WIP/materials to the right customer or project. Route proposals for internal/external approval and auto-generate chargebacks with PO enforcement.
In this stage
How the AI works
AI agents that don't just alert they act.
Most tools tell you something is wrong. Traceflow's cross-functional AI agents work the problem end to end:
01
Detect
Continuously monitor materials and enterprise data to surface material risk as it forms, not at quarter-end.
02
Explain
Show why an item is at risk (a rejected batch, a demand shift, an expiring lot) so owners can act with context.
03
Route
Send each decision to the right owner across planning, quality, procurement, and finance, with clear accountability.
04
Recover
Drive the action that protects value: chargebacks, liability allocation, liquidation, or disposal before it becomes a write-off.
Cross-functional decision engine
Send each decision to the right owner
across planning, quality, procurement, and finance, with clear accountability every signal connected through Traceflow.
AI + human expertise
AI finds the opportunity. Experts realize it.
AI identifies opportunities
Experts operationalize outcomes
MODEL
AI Models
Trained on your inventory, demand, quality, and contract data
SIGNAL
Insights
Excess, obsolescence, and demand risk surfaced as they form.
GUIDE
Recommendations
Prioritized, root-caused next actions for each at-risk item.
ACT
Actions
Experts route, approve, and execute across the right teams.
RESULT
Business Outcomes
Recovered capital, higher turns, fewer write-offs.
AI platform
detection, prediction, prioritization & decision intelligence
Expert services
change management, governance, action & outcomes
Services that operationalize AI
The experts who turn AI insight into realized outcomes.
Inventory Intelligence Services
Put AI to work on the inventory you already hold surfacing excess, obsolescence, and recoverable value, then redesigning the policies that keep it from coming back.
01
Excess & Obsolete Inventory Programs
AI-driven identification and structured recovery of excess, slow-moving, and obsolete stock chargebacks, liquidation, or disposal.
02
Inventory Health Assessments
A fixed-scope diagnostic that quantifies exposure, recoverable value, and the highest-ROI actions before a full rollout.
03
Inventory Segmentation
AI segmentation by demand, value, risk, and lifecycle so each class of material gets the right policy and attention.
04
Policy Optimization
Tune safety stock, reorder points, and min/max policies against live risk signals to lift turns without risking shortages.
05
Inventory Review Modernization
Replace manual, spreadsheet driven reviews with AI-prioritized exception queues routed to the right owner.
Trust & compliance
Built for the standards your auditors hold you to.
Why regulated manufacturers trust Tryft — security, quality, and audit posture your compliance, IT, and finance stakeholders can verify.
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certified
Security and process standards your compliance team can verify.
Native MRB/IRB workflows
Quality decisions captured and documented the way regulated manufacturing actually works.
Audit-ready by design
Every decision, allocation, and disposal is logged with the documentation an auditor expects.
Purpose-built for complex manufacturing
Not a generic inventory tool retrofitted to your industry.
Operational governance model
Quality
MRB / IRB
Compliance
Audit-ready
IT / Security
ISO 27001
Finance
E&O reserve
Trust & compliance
Built for the standards your auditors hold you to.
Why regulated manufacturers trust Tryft security, quality, and audit posture your compliance, IT, and finance stakeholders can verify.
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certified
Security and process standards your compliance team can verify.
Native MRB/IRB workflows
Quality decisions captured and documented the way regulated manufacturing actually works.
Audit-ready by design
Every decision, allocation, and disposal is logged with the documentation an auditor expects.
Purpose-built for complex manufacturing
Not a generic inventory tool retrofitted to your industry.