Vos Tools Leverages Slimstock Platform to Guarantee Service Excellence

To guarantee a high service level, Vos Tools will deploy Slimstock’s supply chain platform. For more than 45 years, Vos Tools has partnered with both end consumers and corporate clients looking for machines, tools, hardware, fasteners and workwear. By striking the optimal inventory balance, Slimstocks’ proven platform will enable Vos Tools to avoid stock-outs. 

The Belgian wholesaler stocks more than 250,000 products. These articles are divided across two sales locations in Brecht and Boom. In addition to the two sales locations, Vos Tools also offers a webshop. As a result, home, garden and kitchen handymen, as well as professional craftsman can count on Vos Tools at any time of the day with their product questions. 

Perfect allocation

Ensuring the right stock in the right place is key to ensuring the highest possible level of service. The award-winning supply chain platform, Slim4, provides a complete overview, enabling Vos Tools to achieve outstanding efficiency. The Slimstock platform provides data-driven insights to help the wholesale distributor to optimise inventory levels, avoiding both overstock and empty shelves.  

To achieve this, Vos Tools is provided with dynamic ordering advice via Slim4 to ensure efficient ordering. The platform scales with the organisation to keep inventory levels under control. Improved inventory rotations ensure supply and demand are dynamically aligned, thus freeing up working capital for other investments. 

Positive results 

With the successful adoption of the AI-driven supply chain platform, Vos Tools is excited by the potential opportunity that lie ahead. Furthermore, following a positive industry reference from Lecot, a collaboration between the two companies has already been established.  

Looking forward to the implementation of Slim4, Philip Vos, Manager at Vos Tools shares: We want to optimise our investment in inventory and build in efficiency gains to increase turnover. To achieve this, we need to attain a better picture of our inventory requirements, taking into account slow movers.”