Floor & Decor: Build A Supply Chain as Solid as Your Products
Discover how FourKites can support your goals to open 25 new stores and achieve $4.7-4.9B in revenue by replacing manual spreadsheet tracking with automated execution
Your aggressive expansion strategy demands supply chain operations that scale. As you grow toward 500+ locations, the spreadsheet-based approach that worked for 175 stores won’t survive 250—or 500. FourKites eliminates the manual chaos of tracking orders, inventory, and suppliers so your team can focus on what matters: keeping stores stocked and customers happy.
The Cracks in Your Supply Chain Foundation
Your direct sourcing model laid the groundwork for success—but manual processes create weak spots that limit scale.
Key Challenges
Supply Chain Disruptions: Port congestion, carrier capacity constraints, weather delays—any disruption in your 250+ vendor network from 26 countries impacts inventory availability across 251 stores. Your teams lack early warning systems to reroute shipments or adjust inventory allocation before stockouts occur.
Manual Processes: Managing 250+ domestic and international suppliers with email and spreadsheets consumes bandwidth that should focus on supporting 25 new store openings. Every status update, exception, and customs clearance requires manual outreach—limiting your team’s ability to scale operations.
Inventory Blind Spots: Your new ERP and TMS don’t provide real-time order visibility or predictive inventory insights. You can’t see which specific SKUs are at risk 4+ weeks out, making it impossible to optimize safety stock or prevent margin-eroding stockouts across your warehouse-format stores.
Filling the Cracks: Solutions That Seal Your Supply Chain Gaps
Our purpose-built platform lays flat across your existing systems—no rip-and-replace required.
FourKites Intelligent Control Tower®
FourKites Intelligent Control Tower®: Your Supply Chain Command Center
Unite your entire supply chain—from 250+ global suppliers through ocean transit, customs, domestic transport, and final delivery to 251 stores and growing—in one reliable platform. FourKites processes over 3.2 million daily supply chain events to spot exceptions before they become disruptions—then automatically takes corrective action through AI-powered Digital Workers that coordinate with carriers, reroute shipments, and resolve issues without human intervention.
- Real-time multimodal visibility: ocean, road, and rail tracking for every shipment from 26 countries
- Predictive ETAs accounting for port congestion, customs delays, carrier dwell time, and weather
- Proactive exception management with automated alerts weeks before delivery deadlines
- Seamless integration with your ERP and TMS—adding visibility and automation capabilities without replacing your existing systems
- Scalable infrastructure supporting 25 new stores in the short-term and your 500+ store long-term vision
Digital Twins
Digital Twins: Mirror Your Entire Order, Shipment & Inventory Plan
Create a living digital representation of every order and inventory position across your supply chain. When tariffs change or shipments face delays, instantly understand the impact on specific SKUs, stores, and revenue—with plenty of time to take corrective action.
- Order Twin: Complete lifecycle visibility from PO creation through delivery—track each container of Italian marble, Spanish tile, or Turkish stone across ocean, customs, and domestic transport
- Inventory Twin: Unified view of in-transit, at-rest, and on-order quantities across 4 distribution centers and 251 stores
- Spot stockout risks 4+ weeks in advance with predictive intelligence—critical for maintaining job-lot quantities customers expect
- Optimize inventory placement to support new store openings while minimizing excess safety stock
- See exactly which SKUs and revenue are at risk when shipments face delays or exceptions
AI Agents
AI Agents: Your 24/7 Installation Crew
Free your supply chain team from 80% of manual tasks so they can focus on strategic initiatives like supporting 25 new store launches. AI agents work 24/7 to automate supplier coordination across 250+ vendors.
- Sam (Supplier Agent): Automatically monitors your 240 suppliers, detects delays before they cascade, and initiates corrective action (carrier escalation, mode optimization, rerouting)
- Tracy (Tracking Agent): Processes every shipping document, BOL, and customs form automatically—no more manual data entry from spreadsheets and emails
- Polly (Appointment Agent): Manages DC appointments and detention risk autonomously—critical when moving “elephants” that cost hundreds per hour in detention
- Early users achieved 75% reduction in integration costs and 10-15% reduction in detention fees
- Scales effortlessly if you add suppliers to your existing 250+ vendor network across 26 countries
- Works with phone and email-based communication—no forced system changes for smaller suppliers
Ocean Visibility
Ocean Visibility: From Quarry to Warehouse Floor
Mission-critical for your direct-sourcing model. Track containers from 26 countries through ocean transit, port operations, customs clearance, and inland transport with complete transparency.
- Real-time container tracking with accurate arrival predictions across multiple shipping lanes
- Port and terminal intelligence: dwell time monitoring, congestion alerts, and capacity insights
- Customs clearance tracking to identify delays and exceptions early in the process
- Complete shipment visibility from origin to destination to understand true transit times and costs
- Multimodal handoff tracking as shipments transition from ocean to domestic carriers
Supplier Connect
Supplier Connect: Unite Your Global Network
Transform how you coordinate with 250+ suppliers across 26 countries and the U.S. Automate communication, capture data, and maintain visibility without forcing technology changes on suppliers—from large factories to smaller specialty producers.
- Flexible integration: portal, API, EDI, or document & email parsing—works with any supplier technology level
- Seamless supplier onboarding tools designed to work with virtually any level of technology sophistication
- Automated PO and shipment data capture eliminates manual email tracking and spreadsheet updates
- Supplier collaboration tools strengthen relationships while reducing your internal coordination burden
Results You Can Stand On
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Arrow Electronics
Supplier Coordination at Scale
The Challenge: Arrow Electronics, a $28B global electronics distributor, struggled with supplier coordination across a fragmented network. With hundreds of suppliers managing their own logistics, Arrow’s teams spent hours manually coordinating shipments and entering data across multiple systems.
The Solution: FourKites auto-built shipment records from minimal supplier data and integrated seamlessly with Arrow’s Oracle TMS, eliminating manual coordination overhead.
The Results:
- 70% reduction in manual work on supplier coordination
- 5x faster supplier onboarding without requiring supplier portal usage
- 80% lower integration costs than custom-built solutions
- Enhanced decision-making across supplier network
Installing FourKites: Smooth Rollout, Solid Results
We know you’re busy laying 25 new store foundations. Our proven approach installs fast without disrupting your day-to-day operations.
Expert-Led Implementation
FourKites project management lays the groundwork—you stay focused on your stores. Clear milestones, defined deliverables, and regular progress reports keep everyone aligned.
Your Network Is Our Network
Many of your 250+ suppliers already use FourKites—providing instant visibility with zero setup. For others, we offer flexible integration (EDI, API, portal, email parsing) that works with their existing systems. No forced changes.
Build Value One Tile at a Time
Start with highest-impact lanes, suppliers, and facilities. Prove ROI before expanding. Sprint-based deliverables ensure continuous progress supporting your new store rollout schedule without overwhelming operations teams.
Fits Perfectly With What You’ve Already Installed
Seamlessly integrates with Manhattan ERP and TMS deployed in 2024. Preserves your distribution center WMS and transportation systems. Fills visibility gaps rather than requiring replacement—protecting recent technology investments.
Ready to Build A Rock-Solid Supply Chain?
Get in touch to discuss how FourKites can support your 25-store expansion, improve operational efficiency, and eliminate manual coordination across your 250+ global suppliers.