Case Study: Surface Art improves inventory management with Netstock

Tiling the Gap Surface Art’s Move From Spreadsheets To Smarter Planning

Surface Art, a customer featured in Netstock’s inventory management guide, was struggling with the complexity of managing large inventories, inaccurate forecasting, and balancing stock availability against excess inventory. Like many businesses dealing with hundreds or thousands of items, Surface Art needed a better way to classify products, set policies, and focus resources on the items that mattered most.

Netstock’s approach combined ABC and velocity-based classification, baseline forecasting with seasonal and trend adjustments, dynamic safety stock calculations, and exception-based inventory management to help improve ordering decisions and service levels while reducing excess stock and stock-outs. The result was a more structured, data-driven inventory process that aimed to make more sales, reduce cash tied up in inventory, and fight fewer fires, though the case study does not provide specific numeric performance metrics.

Surface Art

Kevin Stupfel

President