Built by a warehouse operator who got tired of guessing
SKU Compass started seven years ago as an internal tool on the warehouse floor. Its founder — Randy — had started multiple ecommerce brands and built a 3PL warehouse from the ground up, and none of the inventory tools he tried could tell him exactly what he had and exactly what to order next. So he wrote his own. Years of battle-testing later, and after selling the 3PL in 2023 to go full-time on it, SKU Compass now tracks 50,000+ SKUs and millions of orders for sellers on Amazon, Walmart, and Shopify.
The story behind SKU Compass
Most ecommerce inventory software is built by engineers who have never packed a box or answered a stockout email at 11pm. SKU Compass is different. It was designed from the warehouse floor up by someone who lived the problem — and built automation systems long before ecommerce existed.
From Wall Street data to warehouse shelves
Before ecommerce, Randy spent 15 years as a Senior Data Analyst at Citi and Chase, writing the automation and reporting systems that moved money and managed risk at global-bank scale. Programming automation wasn’t a hobby — it was the job, every day, for a decade and a half. That background shaped how SKU Compass thinks about data: clean, reconciled, always current, never guessed.
Running the business he’d later build software for
After leaving banking, Randy started and ran multiple ecommerce brands and built a third-party logistics warehouse from the ground up, which he ultimately sold in 2023. That’s where the gap became obvious. He’d use spreadsheets, then one inventory app, then another, then another — and none of them could answer the two questions that actually mattered every single morning:
Every tool either pulled stale data, missed bundles, ignored lead time, or broke when he added a second sales channel. So he did what a 15-year automation programmer does when no tool exists: he built it — right there on the warehouse floor, seven years ago.
Born on the warehouse floor — seven years ago
The first version of SKU Compass wasn’t a product. It was an internal tool Randy wrote for his own warehouse to answer two questions he couldn’t get a straight answer to from any off-the-shelf app: what do I have right now, and what do I need to order next? It ran for years inside the business, refined every single day against real orders, real lead times, and real stockouts. That’s not a six-month sprint. That’s seven years of battle-testing against the exact problem it was built to solve.
From internal tool to platform
When Randy sold the 3PL in 2023, he went full-time on turning that internal tool into the product other multi-channel sellers needed just as badly. Today SKU Compass pulls your real numbers from Amazon, Walmart, Shopify, and more into one dashboard, calculates reorder points and safety stock from actual sales velocity, and tells you exactly what to order and when — before you run out. No guesswork. No broken spreadsheets. No “let me check two dashboards and a CSV.” Just one honest answer to the two questions that matter — the same two questions it was built to answer from day one.
The path to SKU Compass
Senior Data Analyst, Citi & Chase
Built automation, reporting, and data pipelines at two of the largest banks in the world. Learned how real-time, reconciled data drives good decisions — and how wrong decisions get made when it doesn’t.
Multiple ecommerce brands & a 3PL built from scratch
Started and ran multiple private-label ecommerce brands, then built a third-party logistics warehouse from the ground up to support them — shipping thousands of orders, managing lead times with overseas suppliers, and learning firsthand how quickly one stockout can cost a week of margin.
First version of SKU Compass built on the warehouse floor
Frustrated by every inventory tool on the market, Randy wrote the first version of SKU Compass as an internal tool for his own warehouse. It ran for years against real orders, real lead times, and real stockouts — refined every single day by the person who had to live with its answers.
Sold the 3PL, went full-time on SKU Compass
After selling the warehouse business in 2023, Randy turned the internal tool into the product other multi-channel sellers needed — hardening it, adding integrations, and shaping it into a platform any brand could plug into.
Founder, SKU Compass
Building the inventory forecasting platform every multi-channel seller deserves. Based in Farmington, Missouri. Still answers support emails personally.
What SKU Compass believes
The principles that shape every feature we build.
Real numbers, not estimates
Your forecast should be built from live sales and live inventory — not last week’s CSV export.
One source of truth
Every channel, every warehouse, every bundle — in one dashboard. If you need a second tab open, we failed.
Built for operators
We’ve shipped real boxes to real customers. Every feature has to pass the “would this actually help on a Monday morning?” test.