As a company that has consistently offered over 170 different HPL coating products from stock for 35 years, we want to share the mathematical foundation that underpins our operational strength with our industry. In this article, we will discuss the concepts that form the basis of our corporate inventory policies and the approaches we used when creating our own inventory management software. We will practically demonstrate the mathematical equations and their usage in a way that anyone reading this can apply. High school level mathematics knowledge is sufficient to understand and apply this article. Our aim is to provide practical information that can be used directly in the field.

Until 15 years ago, integrating a professional inventory management system into a company required high budgets. Today, however, if you have a general level of software literacy, it is possible to write such programs even on your own with the support of LLM (Large Language Models) artificial intelligence applications like ChatGPT. However, this does not mean that companies without software training and budget, or those unwilling to allocate financial resources to the subject, are helpless.

Indeed, the modeling used by both artificial intelligence and high-cost software programs is based on the same mathematical principles, and most of these models can be used with a simple calculator and pen and paper. It is also possible to make much more detailed and customized predictions by adapting the models we will discuss to specific situations, but to keep the application simple, we will not go into detail and will cover general concepts with examples. After examining the general infrastructure, we will briefly explain how we at Berk Laminat use this infrastructure and what can be done to further improve it.