Challenges: Overbuying, Underbuying & Dead Inventory
Midway Industrial Supply, a growing distributor of industrial products, leveraged Acumatica ERP’s robust workflows and structured data foundation to manage their supply chain — and sought to extend its capabilities further with AI forecasting and advanced analytics, to eliminate overbuying, underbuying, and dead inventory across their operations.
Solution: ConverSight Supply Chain Decision Intelligence
Automated Insights
AI insights deliver real-time, actionable data, empowering Midway to make faster, smarter decisions without manual analysis.
Conversation AI
ConverSight’s Athena- simplified decision-making by delivering instant insights through natural language.
Optimized Inventory
Conversight’s Advanced Forecasting kept stock levels perfect, avoiding costly overbuying and underbuying.
AI Models
Conversight’s Recommended Purchase Orders kept orders aligned with demand, ensuring shelves stayed stocked without excess.

Advanced Forecasting and Recommend Purchase Orders (PO)
| Before ConverSight | After ConverSight |
|---|---|
| Inaccurate demand forecasting led to overbuying and underbuying | AI-driven forecasts aligned inventory with real-time demand |
| Wanted to extend Acumatica’s reporting | Advanced reporting capabilities with greater flexibility and control. |
| Poor visibility into dead stock | Identified $1.2M in dead inventory, improving cost control |
| Limited analytics for inventory planning | Smart purchase order recommendations optimized stock levels |
ConverSight’s AI insights enhanced the visibility and value of our ERP data, enabling faster and more informed decision-making. By leveraging ConverSight’s advanced analytics capabilities, we gained a deeper understanding of our inventory position. This increased visibility helped us identify additional opportunities to optimize inventory management and improve operational efficiency.
Drew Gunn, ERP Manager, Midway Corp
Industry
Industrial Distribution
Company Type
Private
ERP
Acumatica

Greater forecasting precision
Optimized inventory management
Elevated productivity levels


