Forthcast Inventory

ONLINE Forthcast Inventory answered an MCP connection on 02 Nov 2026 and introduced itself as forthcast-inventory 1.1.0 (MCP protocol 2025-06-18).

11 tools offered to AI assistants

• get_inventory_overview · Use this when the merchant asks for a broad inventory health check, an executive summary, their urgent/excess/no-demand counts, inventory valuation, or current PO workload. Requires a connected Forthcast store; the assistant will prompt to
• get_reorder_recommendations · Use this when the merchant asks what to reorder, how much to buy, or which critical/warning items need action. Quantities reuse Forthcast's live lead-time, MOQ, case-pack, open-PO, location, and supplier minimum-order-value logic; this tool
• find_inventory_items · Use this when the merchant wants a bounded list of their items filtered by urgency, assigned supplier, or Shopify vendor, such as all excess items or a supplier's critical SKUs. Requires a connected Forthcast store; the assistant will promp
• get_inventory_item · Use this when the merchant names an exact SKU and needs its live stock, forecast demand, days of supply, reorder point, suggested quantity, supplier, or open-PO coverage. Requires a connected Forthcast store; the assistant will prompt to si
• list_purchase_orders · Use this when the merchant asks what is ordered, drafted, open, partially received, received, cancelled, overdue, expected, or associated with a named supplier. Results are grouped by PO; this tool does not approve, receive, cancel, or othe
• get_supplier_performance · Use this when the merchant asks how suppliers are performing or wants rolling 24-month on-time rate, fill rate, actual versus promised lead time, spend, or invoice price accuracy, plus current open and overdue purchase-order counts. Require
• calculate_reorder_point · Use this when someone asks how much safety stock to hold or at what stock level to reorder a product. Give a daily demand history (best) or an average daily demand with its variability, plus the supplier lead time and a service level. Retur
• calculate_order_quantity · Use this when someone asks how many units to order, given demand, lead time, stock on hand and on order, and supplier rules such as MOQ, case pack or a minimum order value. Sizes the line the way Forthcast sizes a purchase-order line and li
• forecast_demand_series · Use this when someone pastes past sales numbers and asks what to expect next month, next quarter or next season. Takes 3 to 365 monthly, weekly or daily totals (oldest first) and returns the next periods with an 80 percent range, the model
• score_inventory_health · Use this when someone shares a list or CSV of products with stock and sales rates and asks which need reordering, which are overstocked, or how healthy the inventory is. Up to 500 rows. Applies Forthcast's urgency bands (Order now, Plan ahe
• explain_inventory_metric · Use this when someone asks what an inventory planning term means or how Forthcast calculates it: safety stock, reorder point, days of cover, urgency bands, service level, ABC class, EOQ, order quantity, fill rate, on-time rate, lead time, i

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