AI Category Management for Automotive Parts
Your inventory is already a data product. We help you read it.
Most distributors run millions of SKUs on gut feel and last year's spreadsheet. We turn your catalog, sales history, and fitment data into a living intelligence layer that shows exactly where you're bleeding cash and where you're leaving coverage on the table. Tell us the categories that keep you up at night, and our AI does the analysis you don't have staff for.
Who it's for: Aftermarket distributors and retailers who want their catalog to make buying and stocking decisions instead of hiding them.
Problems we solve
If any of these sound like your day, there's software that fixes it.
Dead stock quietly ties up cash while nobody can name the worst offenders
Catalog gaps mean you lose the sale to a competitor who stocks the fitment
VIO and ACES coverage is a black box, so you over-index on the wrong vehicles
Inventory turn is measured once a quarter, far too late to act on
New-line and opening-PO decisions rest on a rep's pitch, not your data
What we build
Concrete deliverables, shaped to how your business actually runs.
A category dashboard that ranks dead stock, slow movers, and cash tied up by line
Catalog-gap detection that compares what you stock against demand and fitment coverage
Vehicle coverage scoring built on VIO by market crossed with ACES fitment
Inventory-turn tracking by category, brand, and location with trend alerts
AI-generated opening-PO and reorder recommendations you can approve or edit
A weekly category brief in plain English, delivered to inboxes that matter
We run AutoBuffy across 3.88M SKUs, so catalog scale at this level is our day job
We already deliver AI category intelligence to real distributor accounts
We built Buffy360 and Westar EDI, so we speak fitment, ACES, and PO data natively
Questions we get asked
Straight answers. If yours isn't here, ask us below.
How is this different from the reports my ERP already gives me?
ERP reports tell you what happened. Our AI ranks and explains it, connects it to fitment and VIO coverage, and tells you the specific action to take next. You get recommendations, not just rows.
Do you need to replace our current systems?
No. We read from your existing ERP, catalog, and sales exports. The intelligence layer sits on top, so nothing you rely on today has to change.
How do you handle ACES fitment and VIO data?
We map your catalog to ACES fitment and cross it with vehicles-in-operation by market. That's how we score real coverage instead of counting SKUs. We've done this at multi-million-SKU scale.
How fast can we see our dead stock and gaps?
Once we have a data feed or export, a first category read is typically ready in days, not months. You'll see your worst dead stock and clearest gaps in the first review.
What does it cost to start?
We work on fixed-price engagements starting at a Starter scope. Tell us the categories and data you have, and we'll size it to the outcome you want.
Tell us the problem
Describe what's slowing you down. We'll tell you — free — whether software can fix it, roughly what it takes, and what it saves you.
Send us one category's data and we'll show you the dead stock and gaps hiding in it.
Tell us the problem, we'll figure out the technology. No 40-page spec, no discovery retainer — just a fast, honest conversation about what to build.
Tell us the problem