Case Study: Aston Martin achieves 97.1% first-time availability and 18% safety-stock reduction with ToolsGroup SO99+

Driving away with improved service levels and reduced inventory

Aston Martin faced rising international demand and a board directive to raise first-time availability (FTA) targets by 2% and achieve FTA parity across its three car categories (Heritage, Recent Production, Current Production) without increasing inventory. To meet this challenge the company enlisted ToolsGroup and its SO99+ solution—covering demand planning, inventory optimization and replenishment—to retune its spare-parts planning approach.

ToolsGroup implemented advanced machine learning in SO99+ to uncover new demand categories, generate daily forecasts, tune safety stock for ~80,000 SKUs and produce replenishment plans. Within two months ToolsGroup’s solution cut safety-stock inventory value on clustered items by 18% and immediately lifted FTA to 97.1% (above target), with outcomes trending toward further service and inventory improvements.

Aston Martin

Nick Wilson

Senior Inventory Planner