Perimeter Use cases Operations

See the stockout before the complaint comes in

Perimeter cross-references inventory, sales and shipments at the SKU and warehouse level. When a pattern falls out of range, it alerts you with the likely cause and the history of every time the same thing happened.

Ask about inventory…
Stockout risk · next 10 days live
SKU 4412 · South3 days
SKU 2087 · Central5 days
SKU 9130 · North8 days
SKU 3388 · South10 days
The first two share a supplier. Its last delivery arrived four days late.
Perimeter agent

Operations stops hearing about it from the store

Today

  • The stockout is discovered when the store calls to ask.
  • The coverage report arrives weekly and is already stale.
  • The cause is investigated by hand, cross-checking two or three spreadsheets.
  • No one remembers whether the same supplier had failed before.

With Perimeter

  • The alert arrives days ahead, with the SKU, the warehouse and the estimated timeframe.
  • Coverage is checked when it’s needed, with today’s data.
  • The likely cause comes in the same answer, with its query.
  • The supplier’s history is one question away.

What Perimeter does for operations

Inventory

Coverage at the level where you restock

The national average hides the decision. Perimeter drills down to SKU by warehouse and projects how many days of coverage remain at this week’s actual rate of sale.

  • Projects coverage by SKU and by distribution center, not by average
  • Uses the actual rate of sale, not the planned one
  • Flags SKUs below the threshold your team set
Inventory coverage live
Days of coverage0−4 vs last week
SKUs at risk0+7 vs last week
Current stockouts0%+0.4 pts
W30W31W32W33W34W35
Suppliers

Supplier performance measured against what was promised

Every delivery is compared against its committed date and quantity. Missed commitments stop being a hunch and become a number with a history.

  • Measures lead time and quantity against what was committed
  • Builds up history by supplier and by distribution center
  • Alerts you when a supplier misses twice in a row
Supplier performance · Q3 live
Supplier A94%
Supplier B81%
Supplier C63%
Supplier D47%
Two suppliers below 70% account for 38% of volume in the southern zone.
Alerts

Your operation flags issues on its own, within your rules

Set the threshold once. Perimeter watches the live data and, when it’s crossed, sends the alert to the right channel with the context to act.

  • Thresholds by distribution center, category or supplier
  • Arrives via Slack or email, with the details and the chart
  • Every run is logged with what each step returned
On-time deliveries · southern zone live
On time0%−6 pts vs Q2
Rescheduled0this week
Average time0d+0.6 days
AprMayJunJulAugSep
The real questions

What operations asks on any given Tuesday

Each one is answered in the conversation, with its chart and the SQL behind it. When the number matters, anyone can audit where it came from.

Which SKUs will stock out in the next 10 days?
Why did on-time deliveries drop in the southern zone?
Which suppliers missed their lead time more than twice this quarter?
Alert me if coverage at any distribution center drops below 15 days.
How much of my inventory has been sitting idle for over 90 days?
What happened the last time this supplier failed during peak season?

How a stockout alert works

From the moment a pattern falls out of range to when someone on the team can act.

STEP 01

Watches live data

Inventory, sell-through and shipments are checked as often as you defined.

STEP 02

Investigates the cause

Cross-references shipments, supplier and seasonality to propose an explanation.

STEP 03

Checks before alerting

Rules out false positives from transfers between warehouses or store closures.

STEP 04

Alerts with context

The alert arrives with the SKU, the warehouse, the timeframe and what happened the previous times.

What changes for the team

10 daysOf average lead time before a projected stockout.
100%Of alerts with their likely cause and query.
0Spreadsheets to cross-check by hand to investigate a drop.

Connects to what the operations team already uses

No exporting spreadsheets or pasting data by hand. Every connection is read-only and can be revoked in one click.

SAP Odoo PostgreSQL SQL Server Snowflake Databricks Google Sheets Slack

Perimeter across the rest of the business

Your operation already has
the signal

Tell us what you want to answer and we’ll show you Perimeter on your own sources.