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ALN Partners is the only IT firm that specializes in AI initiatives for industrial distributors and manufacturers. Our deep industry experience combined with our expertise and delivery capability in AI make us the right partner to deliver AI solutions that make a tangible difference in your business.

New to AI and don’t know where to start?

ALN’s AI Readiness Blueprint for Industrial is a lean, 30-day engagement designed to help industrial distribution and manufacturing leaders cut through the noise, uncover AI readiness gaps, identify and qualify AI opportunities, and walk away with a fit-for-purpose, actionable plan that they can start executing immediately.

What You’ll Get in 30 Days

Phase 1: Foundation Gap Analysis + Action Plan

  • Assess systems, data, and processes

  • Identify gaps blocking AI adoption

  • Deliver prioritized action plan to close the gaps

Phase 2: AI Opportunity Exploration + Backlog

  • Identify a backlog of AI use cases in your industrial business

  • Prioritize the backlog by ROI & feasibility

  • Deliver a clear action plan for executing on the highest ROI use cases immediately

Why Industrial Distribution and Manufacturing Leaders Are Choosing ALN’s AI Readiness Blueprint

  • Lightweight: Minimal disruption, fast turnaround

  • Valuable: Industry-specific opportunities mapped directly to ROI

  • Actionable: Walk away with a 12-month execution playbook

Included Bonuses

  • Industry Insights: Intelligence on the AI current and future states in industrial distribution and manufacturing

  • Executive Workshop (90 min): Education & alignment session with your leadership team

  • ROI Guarantee Worksheet: Analysis to prove the value of the AI use cases

Our Guarantee

If you don’t walk away with at least 3 actionable initiatives worth 5x your investment in 30 days, we’ll refund your entire fee.

Your Investment

Traditional consulting studies cost $50K–$100K+ and take months. ALN’s AI Readiness Blueprint for Industrial delivers results in just 30 days — for under $10K.

Ready to Implement Specific AI Use Cases?

Are you already experimenting with AI, but need expertise and acceleration to implement AI for specific use cases? In as little as 2 weeks, we’ll deliver prototypes that you can test. Once released to your users, we’ll help you integrate the solutions into your day to day processes to ensure they generate sustainable benefits.

We’ll also help you put safeguards in place to protect your data and ensure responsible use of AI within your company.


Why ALN?

From HD Supply to FloWorks to The GMI Group and many more, we are well-rooted in industrial distribution and manufacturing’s operations, supply chain, sales and strategic leadership, understanding internal and external factors impacting your company, your business processes, and your office, warehouse and shop floor technologies.

Our unique skill sets allow us to hit the ground running and generating value immediately without the need to go through the industry learning curve.


Recent Industrial AI Use Cases

    • Pain Point: Excessive stock-outs from spreadsheet forecasts; volatile demand by region or SKU.

    • AI Solution Deployed: Probabilistic SKU–location forecasting using historical orders, contracts, seasonality and macro signals.

    • Results: 10–25% lower stock-outs, 10–20% lower excess inventory, and higher fill rate.

    • Pain Point: Static min/max and safety stock caused over/under-stocking.

    • AI Solution Deployed: Policy optimization that set dynamic safety stock and reorder points by service level and variability.

    • Results: 10–20% inventory reduction with same or better service; 5–10% working-capital lift.

    • Pain Point: Manual price lists and inconsistent discounting eroding margins.

    • AI Solution Deployed: Elasticity modeling combined with win-rate scoring to recommend price bands/discounts per segment or SKU.

    • Results: 1–3 points margin improvement; higher quote conversion consistency.

    • Pain Point: Slow, manual quoting; low hit rates; limited prioritization.

    • AI Solution Deployed: Quote parsing, similarity search and win-probability model combined to generate guided pricing and cross-sell.

    • Results: 30–60% faster quote turnaround; 5–15% win-rate lift.

    • Pain Point: Unreliable lead times and surprise delays disrupted planning.

    • AI: Predictive models using historical receipts, ASN accuracy and geo/logistics signals to forecast risk.

    • Results: 10–30% fewer late orders; proactive reallocation/expedites; better promise accuracy.

    • Pain Point: Over-promising delivery dates; manual allocation conflicts.

    • AI: Real-time ATP/ETA estimates using inventory, WIP, capacity, and carrier performance; optimize allocation by priority/SLAs.

    • Results: 5–15% OTIF improvement; fewer penalties/expedites; happier key accounts.

    • Pain Point: Long travel time, congestion, and mis-slotted SKUs raised labor cost.

    • AI: Heatmaps plus clustering to slot by velocity/affinity; route optimization for picks.

    • Results: 10–25% lower pick time; 5–10% labor savings; fewer errors.

    • Pain Point: Schedulers juggled changeovers, constraints, rushed orders; frequent re-plans.

    • AI Solution Deployed: Optimization plus simulation to create feasible schedules under capacity, setup, and due-date constraints.

    • Results: 5–15% throughput gain; 10–20% cycle-time reduction; fewer changeovers.

    • Pain Point: Unplanned downtime from reactive maintenance; excess PM on low-risk assets.

    • AI: Failure-risk models from sensor/PLC logs, run-hours, context; predict remaining useful life.

    • Results: 20–40% fewer breakdowns; 10–20% maintenance cost reduction.

    • Pain Point: Manual inspection would miss subtle defects; variable quality.

    • AI: Computer vision models for defect detection/segmentation; anomaly alerts at line speed.

    • Results: 30–60% defect detection improvement; scrap/rework reduction; tighter Cp/Cpk.

    • Pain Point: Rising energy costs and demand peaks; limited visibility by line/cell.

    • AI: Load forecasting and optimization to shift loads, tune setpoints and minimize peak demand.

    • Results: 5–12% energy cost reduction; better ESG reporting.

    • Pain Point: Late payments and generic dunning; poor cash predictability.

    • AI: Payment-risk scoring and next-best-action (who to call, when, with what message); cash-flow forecasts.

    • Results: 10–20% DSO reduction; improved working capital; fewer write-offs.



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