Case Study: Flowtech achieves 25% stock reduction while maintaining service levels with Slimstock's Slim4

Flowtech Reduced Stock By 25% Without Impacting Service Levels

Flowtech, the “Premier” catalogue provider for Fluid Power and Industrial products in the UK and Ireland, faced rapid range and sales growth that made it hard to balance working capital and their “Number 1 for Service” promise. With over 25,000 items held, 100,000 on the database and largely manual planning processes that consumed many man hours, Flowtech chose Slim4 to automate inventory planning and protect next‑day delivery service levels.

Slim4 automated planning and ordering, enabling Flowtech to reduce stock by 25% without materially affecting first‑pick availability or customer service. The solution cut the time spent on stock reporting and ordering, freed management to pursue efficiency and growth plans, and even avoided imminent warehouse expansion by improving space utilisation—allowing more articles to be held while creating new fallow space.

Flowtech

Keith Greenwood

System and Distribution Director