POGuard learns how each branch actually moves product and turns local ordering guesswork into branch-level PO recommendations that free up working capital without missing sales.
Inventory decisions get made locally by people whose job is selling, not procurement, so ordering runs on experience, optimism, and the fear of missing a sale. That piles up excess stock, triggers costly inter-branch transfers, and drags down turns.
Industry benchmarks put inventory holding costs at 20 to 30% of value a year. Wholesale distributors often sit at 25 to 40%, given longer holding periods and larger facilities.
ERP forecasting chokes on history distorted by allocation periods, and it cannot read branch-level behavior or external signals.
Capital, warehouse space, insurance, shrinkage, and obsolescence, all tied up in stock that did not need to be there.
ERP data, branch burn rates, shipment cycles, job pipeline, vendor lead times, seasonality, weather.
Branch-level PO recommendations tuned to how each location actually sells.
Truckload optimization strategies on top of the order book.
The working-capital impact of purchasing decisions, before you order.
POs tuned to how each location sells, not a global forecast smeared across the network.
Learns burn rates, lead times, job pipeline, and external signals that ERP forecasts miss.
The branch keeps the call. POGuard adds the capital and turn impact they could not see before.
On-prem or in a customer-controlled environment. Open-weight models on Apolo’s private GPUs, no third-party AI provider. A forward-deployed engineer runs an extended discovery, connects your ERP and signals, and tunes recommendations to your branches.
ERP history is distorted by allocation periods. POGuard learns the real drivers and reads branch behavior the forecast cannot see.
They keep the call. POGuard augments them with the capital and turn impact of each order, branch by branch.
Discovery scopes data quality first. The model learns and sharpens over time as orders verify.
Nowhere. On-prem or in an environment you control, with no third-party LLM in the loop.
Tell us your branch count and your ERP. We will scope discovery and show you what the first recommendations look like.