ThroughPut ELI AI Supply Chain Decision Intelligence

ThroughPut Inc. is a Palo Alto, California company that builds AI software for supply chain analytics, inventory and spare parts optimization. It targets bottlenecks and waste in industrial value chains such as heavy industry, cement and building materials, rail and ports, food and beverage, automotive and defense.

Its ELI platform ingests existing time-stamped operational data to detect material flow bottlenecks and outliers, sense demand shifts, account for live supplier lead times and prescribe inventory rebalancing ranked by operational impact. Modules cover supply chain analytics, demand sensing, capacity planning, logistics planning, replenishment, SKU optimization and S&OP. Users include the US Air Force, MTA Metro-North Railroad, Cementos Progreso and Church Brothers Farms.

• Supply chain analytics: network audit to find bottlenecks and delays.
• Demand sensing: weekly base forecasts from granular sales data.
• Capacity planning: reallocation of products across machines around bottlenecks.
• Spare parts management: prioritised rebalancing of maintenance inventory.
• SKU and demand segmentation: portfolio grouping by consistency, volume and margin.
• Digital twin bottleneck detection: real-time root cause analysis on time-stamped data.

• A Vietnamese cement or steel plant can rebalance spare parts across sites to avoid unplanned downtime.
• A port or rail operator can predict maintenance parts demand and supplier delays.
• A food processor can produce weekly demand forecasts and find capacity bottlenecks.

• The company states it surfaces issues within 3 weeks that would otherwise take at least 6 months to detect.
• Critical parts delays can be flagged up to 120 days ahead of a shortage.
• AI auto-ordering and rebalancing can better use up to 62% of working capital budget, per the website.
• No initial IT support is required; it runs on existing operational data.

Asset-heavy industries are applying AI to spare parts and maintenance inventory to raise equipment availability without adding stock. Cement, steel, ports and rail operators in Southeast Asia face similar pressure on uptime and working capital.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an office at Jack London Square, Port of Oakland. Holds multiple US Air Force SBIR Phase III awards; listed on CDAO's Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace and available through Carahsoft since June 2026. The website describes its approach as patented.