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Expiring stock matched to the orders that will use it.
We built a daily service that tells a device maker where to move material before it expires. It was writing off over €40,000 a month.
A medical device manufacturer
- Every morningmovement recommendations, in production under a maintained support contract
- 7 daysthe window in which recommendations from confirmed production orders carry full confidence
- €40,000+a month in expired materials, the write-off the service was built to cut; some months reached €75,000
The situation
A medical device manufacturer was writing off more than €40,000 a month in expired materials across its production supply areas, and individual months reached €75,000.
The stock was usable, but it sat where it wouldn’t be consumed in time, and stock levels followed static settings whatever the lines were actually using.
What we built
Each morning the service takes in stock, reservations and production orders, and issues movement recommendations that put material where it will be consumed before it expires.
It tracks expiry, sets stock levels against observed usage rather than static settings, and reports each month on waste prevented and value recovered.
On the shop floor it works with barcode scanners and on mobile devices.
The decision that mattered
Recommendations don’t all rest on the same evidence: a confirmed order is a fact, and a planned order three months out is a forecast with several possible destinations. A movement based on a confirmed production order inside the next seven days carries full confidence; one based on planned orders out to three months is graded high or low according to how many destinations are possible, so the person moving the material knows how much weight to give each one.
Where it stands
The service started as a pilot and now runs in production under a maintained support contract, with a monthly account of waste prevented and value recovered.
We showed it working to a national manufacturing audience at Irish Medtech’s Manufacturing the Future event in Galway in April 2026.
A second phase is scoped: scrap intelligence with 90-day exposure prediction and root-cause categorisation, bill of materials intelligence, and planning tools with an AI planning layer.