Solution Areas

Get ahead of supply chain disruptions and changing customer needs with AI-enabled business intelligence, building an anti-fragile supply chain that operates profitably and sustainably.

Areas of Focus

Demand Forecasting

Predict customer demand at all levels of granularity, from company to individual SKU, reducing inventory costs and capturing all your demand.

S&OP

Effortlessly collaborate with cross-functional planning teams to run simulations, plan for contingencies, and align production with customer needs.

Inventory Planning

Optimize your inventory levels for every product line, responding to changes in demand and supply constraints in real time.

Supplier Selection

Ensure your supplier base is best serving your supply chain operations by leveraging data & AI to evaluate, select, and manage suppliers, partnering with the best vendors for each material and SKU.

Predictive Sourcing

Navigate dynamic global events like tariffs to keep your supply chain operating efficiently. Anticipate costs and risks associated with each supplier to minimize spend and increase customer satisfaction.

Contract Management

Negotiate contracts with speed and confidence, supported by comprehensive analysis and workflow automations that keep your team out of the weeds and focused on strategic decision making.

Spend Analysis

Gain clarity on where your budget is going by analyzing expenses in real time. Identify high-cost areas, uncover savings opportunities, and build stronger relationships with your top-performing suppliers.

Supplier Benchmarking

Measure your suppliers against each other and industry standards to evaluate their competitiveness. Compare factors like cost, quality, delivery, and innovation capabilities to select the best partners using our proprietary data network.

Risk Management

Proactively identify and address potential vulnerabilities affecting your suppliers, such as political instability, financial concerns, or quality control issues. Develop mitigation strategies using AI-driven scenario and contingency planning.

Predictive ETA

Anticipate delivery timelines with precision using AI-driven predictive models and our proprietary data network. Stay ahead of potential delays and adjust your plans proactively to maintain smooth operations.

Real-time Tracking

Monitor purchase orders in transit with real-time visibility. Gain actionable insights into shipment locations and statuses, ensuring your team is always informed and in control.

Workflow Optimization

Streamline your PO lifecycle with automated workflows and digital assistants. Reduce bottlenecks, improve compliance, and speed up decision-making with personalized notifications integrated with your existing tools and workflows.

End-to-end Visibility

Achieve complete oversight across your supply chain, from raw materials to order fulfillment. Break down silos and make informed decisions with personalized insights delivered to stakeholders of all levels.

Disruption Prediction

Leverage machine learning to identify potential risks and disruptions before they occur. Stay ahead with predictive insights that allow you to perform contingency planning and avoid downtime.

AI Course Correction

Respond to disruptions in real-time with personalized recommendations. Optimize responses, adjust plans dynamically, and minimize the impact on profitability with personalized action plans.

"The team at Astral has transformed our data into a set of world-class tools. The entire Astral team is insightful, responsive, and speedy."

Brian Evans, CFO

Success Stories

Manufacturing | AI-Enabled Planning

Achieving a 30% Drop in Stockouts

Learn how we helped our client minimize stockouts while improving forecast accuracy, resulting in enhanced customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Manufacturing | AI-Enabled PO Tracking

Reducing Downtime by 22%

Learn how we helped our client anticipate and respond to inbound PO delays, allowing for more effective production planning and improved customer satisfaction.

Transportation

Supercharging Performance

Our Client faced extended delivery times, employee turnover, and declining revenue growth in the months following the pandemic recovery. These challenges presented a ripe opportunity...

Retail

Advancing Through Analytics

In the post-Covid environment, customer needs and buying patterns began to shift rapidly. Our Client’s executive team was focused on increasing sales in underperforming customer..

Retail

Intelligent Cost Takeout

We partnered with our Client to deploy a cloud-based platform to monitor and anticipate cost trends in real time, reducing operational expenses over the following 12 months.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing a Digital Edge

The Client is a leading specialized manufacturer looking to improve operational efficiency, inventory management, and product pricing to combat mounting inflation and turbulent supply chains.

Food & Beverage

Institutionalizing Analytics

The client is a rapidly-growing provider of prepared meals. Their team faced pricing challenges and lacked a holistic approach to systematically managing and improving performance.

Our end-to-end approach

Assess & Strategize

We start by gaining a deep understanding of your current operations and pinpointing areas where disruptions lead to reactive responses. By evaluating these challenges through an ROI lens, we prioritize the most impactful opportunities and craft a tailored roadmap for improvement.

Build & Implement

Collaborating closely with your end users, we adopt an iterative build cycle that places their insights at the heart of the solution. This user-centric approach ensures the final product seamlessly fits your team's needs and workflows.

Scale

We deploy the solution to a broader audience within your organization, meticulously managing adoption to maximize impact. Recognizing that successful implementation hinges on user engagement, we focus on strategies that promote widespread acceptance and sustained use.

Learn why leading companies are using AI for proactive PO tracking

Integrate with your most important systems

Our Latest Thinking

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Transforming Supply Chain Operations: The Adoption of Multi-Agent LLM Systems

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Webinar: Transforming Supply Chains with Generative AI

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Solution Areas

Get ahead of supply chain disruptions and changing customer needs with AI-enabled business intelligence, building an anti-fragile supply chain that operates profitably and sustainably.

Get ahead of supply chain disruptions and changing customer needs with AI-enabled business intelligence, building an anti-fragile supply chain that operates profitably and sustainably.

Areas of Focus

Demand Forecasting

Predict customer demand at all levels of granularity, from company to individual SKU, reducing inventory costs and capturing all your demand.

S&OP

Effortlessly collaborate with cross-functional planning teams to run simulations, plan for contingencies, and align production with customer needs.

Inventory Planning

Optimize your inventory levels for every product line, responding to changes in demand and supply constraints in real time.

Supplier Selection

Ensure your supplier base is best serving your supply chain operations by leveraging data & AI to evaluate, select, and manage suppliers, partnering with the best vendors for each material and SKU.

Predictive Sourcing

Navigate dynamic global events like tariffs to keep your supply chain operating efficiently. Anticipate costs and risks associated with each supplier to minimize spend and increase customer satisfaction.

Contract Management

Negotiate contracts with speed and confidence, supported by comprehensive analysis and workflow automations that keep your team out of the weeds and focused on strategic decision making.

Spend Analysis

Gain clarity on where your budget is going by analyzing expenses in real time. Identify high-cost areas, uncover savings opportunities, and build stronger relationships with your top-performing suppliers.

Supplier Benchmarking

Measure your suppliers against each other and industry standards to evaluate their competitiveness. Compare factors like cost, quality, delivery, and innovation capabilities to select the best partners using our proprietary data network.

Risk Management

Proactively identify and address potential vulnerabilities affecting your suppliers, such as political instability, financial concerns, or quality control issues. Develop mitigation strategies using AI-driven scenario and contingency planning.

Predictive ETA

Anticipate delivery timelines with precision using AI-driven predictive models and our proprietary data network. Stay ahead of potential delays and adjust your plans proactively to maintain smooth operations.

Real-time Tracking

Monitor purchase orders in transit with real-time visibility. Gain actionable insights into shipment locations and statuses, ensuring your team is always informed and in control.

Workflow Optimization

Streamline your PO lifecycle with automated workflows and digital assistants. Reduce bottlenecks, improve compliance, and speed up decision-making with personalized notifications integrated with your existing tools and workflows.

End-to-end Visibility

Achieve complete oversight across your supply chain, from raw materials to order fulfillment. Break down silos and make informed decisions with personalized insights delivered to stakeholders of all levels.

Disruption Prediction

Leverage machine learning to identify potential risks and disruptions before they occur. Stay ahead with predictive insights that allow you to perform contingency planning and avoid downtime.

AI Course Correction

Respond to disruptions in real-time with personalized recommendations. Optimize responses, adjust plans dynamically, and minimize the impact on profitability with personalized action plans.

"The team at Astral has transformed our data into a set of world-class tools. The entire Astral team is insightful, responsive, and speedy."

Brian Evans, CFO

Success Stories

Manufacturing | AI-Enabled Planning

Achieving a 30% Drop in Stockouts

Learn how we helped our client minimize stockouts while improving forecast accuracy, resulting in enhanced customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Manufacturing | AI-Enabled PO Tracking

Reducing Downtime by 22%

Learn how we helped our client anticipate and respond to inbound PO delays, allowing for more effective production planning and improved customer satisfaction.

Transportation

Supercharging Performance

Our Client faced extended delivery times, employee turnover, and declining revenue growth in the months following the pandemic recovery. These challenges presented a ripe opportunity...

Retail

Advancing Through Analytics

In the post-Covid environment, customer needs and buying patterns began to shift rapidly. Our Client’s executive team was focused on increasing sales in underperforming customer..

Retail

Intelligent Cost Takeout​

We partnered with our Client to deploy a cloud-based platform to monitor and anticipate cost trends in real time, reducing operational expenses over the following 12 months.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing a Digital Edge​

The Client is a leading specialized manufacturer looking to improve operational efficiency, inventory management, and product pricing to combat mounting inflation and turbulent supply chains.

Food & Beverage

Institutionalizing Analytics

The client is a rapidly-growing provider of prepared meals. Their team faced pricing challenges and lacked a holistic approach to systematically managing and improving performance.

Our end-to-end approach

Assess & Strategize

We start by gaining a deep understanding of your current operations and pinpointing areas where disruptions lead to reactive responses. By evaluating these challenges through an ROI lens, we prioritize the most impactful opportunities and craft a tailored roadmap for improvement.

Build & Implement

Collaborating closely with your end users, we adopt an iterative build cycle that places their insights at the heart of the solution. This user-centric approach ensures the final product seamlessly fits your team's needs and workflows.

Scale

We deploy the solution to a broader audience within your organization, meticulously managing adoption to maximize impact. Recognizing that successful implementation hinges on user engagement, we focus on strategies that promote widespread acceptance and sustained use.

Learn why leading companies are using AI for proactive PO tracking

Integrate with your most important systems

Our Latest Thinking

Building Scalable Enterprise AI Platforms with Terraform: Harnessing the Power of Infrastructure as Code

Transforming Supply Chain Operations: The Adoption of Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Webinar: Transforming Supply Chains Management With Generative AI

Become proactive, resilient, and sustainable

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