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Use Cases  /  Provisioning
Use Case 06

Preventing Stockouts Without Overstocking

Every catering station has to hold enough to cover demand, and not a case more. Paxia forecasts consumption by combining historical data with real flight demand, keeps each station on target, and shows you what to reorder, against the forecast or at a reorder point.

PAXIA CATERING OPS · BOARDING PASS
NAMEPreventing Stockouts Without Overstocking
FROMGUESSWORK
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TOON TARGET
FLIGHTPX-06
CLASSPROVISIONING
SEQ06 / 07
STATUSEXPLORE →
PX-0606
The Challenge

Guess High and You Waste, Guess Low and You Short the Flight

Provisioning lives between two failures. Order too much, and you inflate warehouse costs and carry stock that expires; order too little, and a station can’t cover its flights. Set by hand from last month’s numbers, inventory is almost never at the level demand actually calls for. Three cracks show up again and again.

Target levels are set once and left to drift
Min and max levels are entered as best guesses and rarely revisited. As schedules and loads change, the buffer is either too large or too small, and nobody sees which until something runs out.
Replenishment reacts too slowly
When reorders are triggered by hand after someone notices a bin is low, purchase orders go out under time pressure: expedited freight, split shipments, and the occasional scramble to cover a flight.
Overstock hides the real cost
Excess looks like safety, but it’s cash tied up in the network, with expiring stock and storage fees on top. Waste on the shelf is as costly as a stockout on the aircraft. It’s just quieter.
How Paxia Cloud Helps

From Guesswork to Every Station on Target

Paxia forecasts consumption by combining historical data with real flight demand and keeps each station on target. As stock levels draw down toward the reorder point, Paxia raises an alert to prevent swings between empty and overfull.

PAXIAMIA · CATERING STATION · DRP TARGET BANDON HAND
REPLENISHMENT ALERTS Entrée plates · short 240 · reorder Wine glasses · short 180 · reorder Amenity kits · short 900 · reorder ⏸ Wine bottles · hold — overstock
How It Connects

The Modules Behind This Use Case

Right-sized inventory isn’t a warehouse habit. It’s what happens when provisioning is driven by the same demand signal that guides flight planning. Here’s how Paxia keeps every station on target:

Schedules — the demand signal

The flight schedule and its inventory demand are what stock has to cover, so Assets plans replenishment to the flights that are actually coming, not to a static monthly average.

Galleys — what each flight actually draws

Galley Load Plans set the stock each flight consumes, so planned usage feeds straight back into the forecast instead of being estimated after the fact.

Assets — plan and procure

Assets runs MRP and DRP against that demand: it forecasts consumption at each station, tracks what is on hand against target, and manages suppliers and lead times so the right quantity arrives just in time.

Insights — the data the forecast runs on

Insights provides the curated data feeds that support forecasting calculations across the network, so each station's target is set based on what the whole operation is actually consuming.

Because the same demand signal that plans the flights also plans the stock, every station holds only what its flights will actually consume.

Proven Worldwide

Running at Real Airline Scale

LIVE · SYSTEMWIDE
400+
CATERING STATIONS
100+
COUNTRIES
4,200+
AIRCRAFT MANAGED
Cleared for Takeoff

See Every Station Held on Target

Schedule a demo, and we’ll show you how Paxia forecasts consumption from historical data and upcoming flights, keeps each station on target, and works to your suppliers’ lead times, so you prevent stockouts without paying to overstock.

PAXIA CATERING OPS · BOARDING PASS
FROMGUESSWORK
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TOON TARGET
FLIGHTPX-06
STATUSNOW BOARDING
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