Every planting season, the same thing happens.
You over-order the slow movers. You stock out of the inputs your customers actually need.
By the time your supplier delivers, peak demand has already passed — and your customers bought from someone else.
You're not doing this because you're bad at your job.
You're doing it because nobody ever gave you a system.
You're ordering based on gut feel, last year's invoices, and what "looks low" when you walk the warehouse. You're reacting to demand instead of getting ahead of it. And every season, you're paying for that with dead stock on the shelf and lost sales you never see coming.
The result:
Capital locked in inventory that doesn't move for 6 months
Customers who needed your top herbicide in October calling a competitor
A post-season write-down that quietly destroys your margin
No idea which 20% of your SKUs are generating 80% of your revenue
This isn't a sourcing problem. It's not a supplier problem. It's an ordering system problem — and it has a precise, mathematical fix.