Vishwajeet Kantale
Inventory Operations Practitioner
Vishwajeet covers the statistics that govern stock availability: safety-stock models, the difference between service level and fill rate, and where the common formulas quietly break.
Articles by Vishwajeet Kantale
Available-to-Promise Under Concurrency: Why Flash Sales Oversell
On flash-sale days, naive available-to-promise logic oversells because reservations race. Why read-then-write fails, and the patterns that make ATP safe under load.
Apr 30, 2026
Service Level vs Fill Rate: What Your 98% Actually Promises
Type 1 service level and Type 2 fill rate are different numbers. Confusing them under-stocks you. The difference, the math, and what your 98% actually promises.
Apr 20, 2026
Forecasting Intermittent Demand: Why ARIMA and Prophet Fail on Slow Movers
Spare parts and slow movers have demand full of zeros. ARIMA and Prophet smooth it into nonsense. Why, and the methods built for it: Croston's, SBA, TSB.
Mar 26, 2026
The Bullwhip Effect in API Terms: Latency, Batching, and Backpressure
The bullwhip effect amplifies demand variability upstream. Seen as a distributed system, it is batching, latency, and overreaction. Here is the analogy and the fixes.
Feb 22, 2026
Decoupling from SAP MM: A Strangler-Fig Migration for Inventory
You can move inventory subsystems off SAP MM without a big-bang rewrite. The strangler-fig pattern routes functions to a new system behind a facade, incrementally and.
Feb 2, 2026
DDMRP, Honestly: What Demand-Driven MRP Gets Right and Oversells
An even-handed look at Demand-Driven MRP: the decoupling and buffer ideas that genuinely work, the parts that are repackaged classics, and where the marketing outruns.
Jan 26, 2026
The Hidden Cost of NetSuite Saved Searches at 2M SKUs
NetSuite saved searches quietly get slow at scale. Why inventory queries degrade past a million SKUs, how to profile them, and the patterns that keep them fast.
Dec 22, 2025
Why Your Safety Stock Formula Breaks on Non-Normal Demand
The classic z*sigma safety stock formula assumes normal demand. Most real demand is not, so it quietly under-stocks you. A statistical audit and what to use instead.
Dec 8, 2025
AR vs VR in the Supply Chain: A Practical Guide for Ops Managers
AR overlays data on the real warehouse; VR replaces it with a simulation. Here is where each genuinely helps in supply-chain operations, and where the hype outruns.
Nov 10, 2025
From ML-Powered Inventory to Enterprise AI: The Evolution of a Modern Tech Stack
The advent of machine learning (ML) has revolutionized various sectors, and inventory management is no exception. Traditionally, inventory management relied heavily.
Aug 31, 2025
Maximizing Profits: Reduce Inventory Shrinkage with Software Solutions
Inventory shrinkage is a critical issue affecting businesses across various sectors and sizes. It occurs when inventory is lost between receipt and sale, due to.
May 6, 2024
Maximizing Efficiency: Benefits of Automated Inventory Tracking for eCommerce
Automated inventory tracking is a technological system used to monitor and manage a company’s inventory levels. It employs various tools such as barcode scanners.
Apr 29, 2024
Maximizing Inventory Efficiency with Software
Efficient inventory management is essential for business success across all industries and company sizes. It ensures optimal stock levels to meet customer demand.
Apr 3, 2024
Effective Inventory Tracking in Retail: Best Practices
Inventory tracking is a critical component of retail management that directly affects a business’s profitability. Accurate tracking ensures optimal stock levels.
Mar 2, 2024
Optimizing Apparel Inventory with Management Software
Inventory management software plays a vital role in apparel businesses for multiple reasons. Primarily, it enables real-time inventory tracking, ensuring optimal.
Feb 18, 2024
Mastering Demand Forecasting with Inventory Management Software
Demand forecasting is a critical business function that involves predicting future product or service demand based on historical data, market trends, and other.
Feb 8, 2024
Revolutionizing Inventory Management with AR Technology
AR technology, or augmented reality technology, is a technology that overlays digital information onto the real world, enhancing the user’s perception and interaction.
Dec 31, 2023
Revolutionizing Inventory Management with Advanced Data Analytics
Advanced data analytics refers to the use of sophisticated techniques and tools to analyze large volumes of data in order to gain valuable insights and make informed.
Dec 16, 2023
Revolutionizing Inventory Management with VR Technology
Virtual Reality (VR) technology has revolutionized various industries, and inventory management is no exception. VR technology refers to the use of computer-generated.
Nov 30, 2023