Smart Stocking demo

The stocking balancing act

Jenny opens with the problem every dealership knows: run out of a critical part in peak season, or walk past shelves of parts nobody has touched in a year. Most purchasing decisions still run on spreadsheets, tribal knowledge and gut instinct. Her takeaway: better stocking decisions lead to better cash flow and better margins.

What Smart Stocking is

Dean calls it a math equation. Flyntlok looks at all of your parts sales history and works out, vendor by vendor, how much to stock for every part number in your system. The recommendations update every day, so tomorrow's numbers account for what sold today, and seasonality is built in.

The Purchasing Hub

Smart Stocking lives under Parts, in the Purchasing Hub. The screen lists every location with its vendors and recommended stock order, so one buyer can handle stock orders for every store. Dean creates a draft stock order for Bobcat at one location.

The worksheet, column by column

The draft opens as a worksheet. Every Bobcat part number the location has sold is listed with its description, quantity on hand and cost, then the recommended quantity, the order quantity you fill in and a running total. Sold 90 is the quantity sold in the last 90 days, and Sold 90 I is how many invoices it sold on, so 100 bolts sold to one customer don't turn into a recommendation to stock 100.

Seasonality and healthy turns

Sold 90 PY and Sold 90 PY I bring in the same window from the previous year. In September, for example, Smart Stocking looks at what sold the previous October, November and December. The goal is healthy turns, which Dean puts at around three to four a year, without parts sitting on the shelf for more than a year.

A tool, not autopilot

For dealers with five or ten manufacturers and huge parts catalogs, the recommendations give buyers an assist. Nothing gets ordered for you. Your team reviews every number and decides, whether that means a few more filters or skipping a transmission that sold three times last year.