Audacity Business Consulting · Canada · USA · Morocco

Lead with audacity.
Master your inventory.

How many millions are asleep in your inventory right now? Free that cash, end the stockouts, and trust every number again; powered by DemandIntel: AI-sharpened forecasting, deterministic decisions, auditable line by line.

45 minutes. Your data. No slides.
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Sectors we know inside out
ManufacturingDistributionHealthcareAerospaceEnergyFood & beverageUtilities
20+
years optimizing inventory & procurement
$46.7M
working-capital opportunity, modelled on the demo portfolio
4.1%
portfolio forecast error (wMAPE)
3
markets: Canada, USA, Morocco
Why it matters

Getting inventory wrong is expensive, twice.

Every planning error is paid for in two currencies at once: cash frozen on the shelf, and sales lost when the shelf is empty. Most teams fight it with spreadsheets or a tool they cannot question.

01

Forecast accuracy looks fine on average, but it is wrong on the SKUs that actually matter.

02

Cash is tied up in items that have not moved in months, while you stock out on the ones you thought you had.

03

Planners override the system because they do not trust it.

04

Working capital keeps growing, and nobody can say why with confidence.

05

A chokepoint or supplier shock hits, and you find out when the line stops.

And the usual fix is failing

The market stopped trusting the black box.

95%

of enterprise generative-AI pilots show no measurable P&L return. MIT NANDA, 2025

42%

of companies scrapped most AI initiatives in 2025, up from 17% a year earlier. S&P Global, 2025

1

number is all it takes to lose a plan's credibility: one you cannot rerun, explain or defend.

AI sharpens the forecast; DemandIntel then runs every decision deterministically, so the same data gives the same number. It shows its work.

Our flagship product

DemandIntel: every number, explained.

Here is a quick test: rerun last month’s forecast on the same data. Do you get the exact same number? If not, you are trusting a black box. DemandIntel is the opposite. It sits on top of your ERP (SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, NetSuite, Sage or your own), forecasts demand, right-sizes stock and writes auditable settings back every month. It runs on-premise, so your data stays home.

Here is what that buys you in practice. Your planners stop fighting the system and start acting on it, because they can see where every number came from. Your CFO stops asking “why 4,200 units?” and starts trusting the answer, because the answer does not move. And when a new hire, an auditor or a board member asks six months from now how a figure was reached, you show them, line by line, instead of pointing at a model nobody owns.

Forecast you can trace

See a forecast split into its parts, baseline, season, trend, promo, right down the line.

Inventory optimized

Safety stock and reorder points worked out from your own numbers, not a gut call.

Working capital freed

Today’s cash against what it could be, and the figure finance and ops finally agree on.

Risk, seen early

Slow movers and shaky suppliers flagged while you can still do something about it.

SKU4471 · 500 ml PET · Casablanca DC
Monthly demand forecast · every driver traceable
Baseline
3,200
+Seasonality (Q4 lift)
+640
+Trend
+180
+Planned promo
+300
Forecast4,320
?
4,318
The model returned a number. It hands you the number without the parts that built it, so you cannot trace it, explain it, or defend it.
Right-sized from your own data
Safety stock and reorder point are sized from your real forecast error, lead-time variability and chosen service level; shown in full so any planner can check the result.
Safety stock
980
Reorder point
9,620
Same number, every run
Same data. Same number. Every time.
See the product, screen by screen
Proof

The numbers that matter.

We ran it end to end on a representative portfolio. No vague "up to" figures here; every number comes with its method and its context, and we prove it again on your data.

These are not slide numbers. Every figure here was produced end to end on a representative portfolio, the same way it would run on yours, and the cash release is modelled on real economics, not a hopeful percentage. Bring your own export to the demo and we rebuild them on your SKUs, in front of you, so the proof is yours, not ours.

Built by a planner with 20+ years in medical device, aerospace and energy, not by a software vendor watching from a distance.

4.1%
portfolio wMAPE (median 8.8% per SKU)
99.0%
modelled cycle service level at the optimal policy
$46.7M
working-capital opportunity, modelled (−66.9% vs today)
$1.58M
value at risk, flagged pre-obsolescence (2,784 SKUs)
$4.8M
inventory value on SKUs below reorder point (5,926 SKUs)
1.2M
calculations across 18,000 SKUs + 1,201 raw materials

Representative demonstration dataset: 18,000 SKUs, 7 families, 19,201 references total; not a client portfolio. Results vary by product mix, data quality and current policy, and are validated on your own data during the demonstration.

ManufacturingDistributionHealthcareAerospaceEnergyFood & beverageUtilities
Our point of view
Most software asks you to trust it. We would rather you checked our work. That is the whole idea behind DemandIntel.
Yasser El Amiri, Founder, Audacity Business Consulting
What we do · consulting

A consulting firm first. The software is our edge.

Audacity Business Consulting has spent 20+ years turning inventory, supply chain and procurement into performance for manufacturers and distributors across Canada, the USA and Morocco. DemandIntel is the engine we built along the way; the consulting is how it lands and lasts.

Service 01

Comprehensive supply & demand analysis

We dig into your data and the market, find the waste, and right-size stock so you stop paying for overstock and ruptures at once.

  • Maximize inventory turnover
  • Product availability and customer satisfaction
  • Optimize lead times
Service 02

Custom inventory model development

Inventory models shaped to how you actually work, matching supply to real demand across your seasons and cycles, cost kept in line.

  • Tailored for efficiency, minimal waste
  • Cost reduction on carrying stock
  • Scales from short runs to large-scale manufacturing
Service 03

Procurement services reengineering

We rework sourcing and supplier management, tighten procurement, and give your buyers more leverage where it counts.

  • Cost-effective sourcing and better terms
  • Supply-chain resilience and continuity
  • Faster procurement cycles
Why choose Audacity

Deep expertise

Over 20 years with leading global companies across aerospace, healthcare, energy, retail, manufacturing and distribution.

Tailored solutions

Strategies built for your business, never pulled off a shelf.

Measurable results

Real gains in performance, shown on your own data, method in plain sight.

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How it works

Diagnose. Deploy. Sustain.

One path, from the first call to lasting results. The engine does the heavy lifting; our consultants make sure it actually sticks.

Diagnose

Prove it on your data

A free 45-minute demo on your data shows the reproducible number and the cash it frees, before you commit to anything.

Deploy

Install the engine

DemandIntel goes in on-premise, on top of your ERP. Your data stays home, and every number stays explainable.

Sustain

Make it stick

Our consultants train your people and rework procurement, so the gains stick long after go-live.

Why teams pick it
Value in an hourYou watch it work on your own data in the demo. Not next quarter. Not next year.
Same number, every runRun it again next month on the same data and you get the same answer, line by line.
Gets better with useIt learns the shape of your demand and sharpens the longer you run it; each published number still reproduces exactly from the data and settings behind it.
Complements your ERPIt sits next to SAP and does the thinking. No rip-and-replace, no IT saga.
Industries

Built for your industry

The inventory and forecasting pain is specific to your sector, and so is the way DemandIntel fits it. See the one that is yours.

Pharma & healthFood & beverageApparel & textileIndustrial & MRO distributionEquipment & machineryChemicals & coatingsElectronics & hardwarePackagingCosmetics & personal careAutomotive partsBuilding materials
See all industries
Insights

From the blog and the field.

Practical writing on deterministic planning and inventory, plus talks and press.

Reproducibility

Your planning tool might be a slot machine

Rerun last month's forecast on the same data. If the number moves, it is an opinion, not a plan.

Market shift

The enterprise turned on black-box AI

Two years of hype, then a reckoning. Buyers now want decisions they can reproduce and defend.

Working capital

Bad inventory costs you twice, at once

Cash frozen on the shelf and sales lost when it is empty, paid in the same quarter.

Read the blog and media
Questions

Questions before you book

Will this replace our ERP? +

No. DemandIntel sits on top of SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, NetSuite, Sage or your own system and writes its recommendations back. Nothing to rip out.

Is it cloud or on-premise? +

On-premise. It runs inside your walls, so your data never leaves and every number stays reproducible and audit-ready.

How quickly do we see value? +

You see the opportunity on your own data in a free 45-minute demo, and most clients feel it in stock and cash within three to six months of going live.

What does it cost to find out? +

Nothing. The 45-minute demo is free and runs on your own data, with no pressure to buy.

How much of our IT team's time will the install take? +

Very little. DemandIntel installs on-premise beside your ERP, typically in weeks, with a short, scoped effort from your IT to connect the data. Nothing to rip out, no cloud migration, no multi-month integration project; we do the heavy lifting with your team, not to it.

Will our planners have to change how they work? +

They keep working in the tools they know. DemandIntel sits on top and hands them recommendations with the logic in plain sight, so they act on the number instead of overriding it. We train your team and stay until they own it.

How is this different from the AI forecasting tools everyone is selling? +

Most AI planning tools are a black box: rerun them on the same data and the number changes, and no one can explain it. DemandIntel uses AI to sharpen the forecast, then makes every inventory and financial decision deterministically, so the same data gives the same number, every time, traceable to its source. You can defend it to a CFO or an auditor.

Is this a fit for a company our size? +

We work best with manufacturers and distributors from roughly 5,000 SKUs up, where inventory ties up real working capital. If you are smaller than that, we will tell you honestly whether the gain justifies it.

What do you need from us to start? +

A simple export of your demand history and current stock. We run the 45-minute demo on it, it never leaves your environment, and if you proceed that same data seeds the pilot.

Do you only sell software, or do you help us implement it? +

We are a consulting firm first. The software is our edge, but our people install it beside your ERP, rework the process, and train your planners, so the gains stick long after go-live.

What if it does not hold up on our data? +

Then you do not buy it. The demo and the pilot run on your own numbers precisely so the proof is yours, not ours. If it does not hold up, we part as friends.

Can it handle multiple sites and export markets? +

Yes. It optimizes inventory per SKU and per location and forecasts demand across sites and export markets, including the lumpy, intermittent demand spreadsheets struggle with.

Value in an hour, not a year

See it on your own data in 45 minutes.

Picture your next S&OP meeting: one number on screen that nobody argues with. See it free, on your own data, in 45 minutes; and if it does not hold up, we part as friends.