Slimstock

Slimstock is a Dutch supply chain planning company. Its terms of use name Slimstock Holding B.V. in Deventer, with the Dutch business registry number 38024648, and it dates itself to 1993.

It states more than 1,700 customers, a 96 percent year-on-year retention rate, offices in 28 countries and over 600 supply chain experts, all vendor claims. It describes itself as one of the few remaining privately-owned domain experts operating on a global scale, and the Dutch registration gives a clear contracting entity, which is not the case for every planning vendor.

This is not a tool that records stock movements. The Slim4 platform covers demand forecasting, inventory optimisation, automatic replenishment, multi-echelon inventory, allocation and network balancing, and sits beside the ERP or warehouse system that holds the quantities.

Slimstock says it releases new functionality every three weeks and holds ISO 27001:2022 certification. You can run it on-premise or use Slim4 Cloud, and the cloud region is not named on the pages read. The company also offers an academy and community networks for supply chain planners, which it describes as part of its knowledge-sharing work.

No price is published and no pricing page was found on its site, so every project begins with a conversation.

That fits its audience of planning teams at larger distributors, retailers and manufacturers, and it makes the product the least comparable on this page with Billbee or Katana, which print figures. It belongs here because inventory optimisation is part of inventory management, but if you only need counts and locations, the other eight tools fit better, and they will cost far less to start.

What Slimstock does well

• Slimstock names a Dutch B.V. with a registry number in its terms of use
• Slimstock states ISO 27001:2022 certification
• Slimstock can be deployed on-premise or used as Slim4 Cloud
• Slimstock covers forecasting, replenishment, multi-echelon and allocation in one platform
• Slimstock describes itself as privately owned and dates itself to 1993

Where Slimstock falls short

• Slimstock publishes no price and starts with a sales conversation
• Slimstock plans stock rather than recording it, so an ERP or WMS is still needed
• The cloud hosting region is not stated on the pages read
• Customer, retention and staff numbers are vendor claims that were not audited

Standout feature. Slimstock is the only planning-first product on this page, with forecasting and multi-echelon replenishment where the others stop at stock levels.