Forthcast Inventory is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 11 tools.
Demand forecasts, reorder points, order quantities and inventory health for Shopify stores.
Uptime history
6 days of history · worst day 99%
6 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
11
Tools
read from the server
449 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
Forthcast Inventory missed one check this week
Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add inventory --transport http https://app.forthcast.io/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://app.forthcast.io/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.inventory]
url = "https://app.forthcast.io/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"inventory": {
"url": "https://app.forthcast.io/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"inventory": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://app.forthcast.io/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 11
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
inventory
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 prompt to sign in.
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 sign in.
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 sign in.
calculate
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 lists every rule that changed the quantity. Works without a connected store.
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. Returns safety stock, lead-time demand and the reorder point with Forthcast's formula and assumptions. Works without a connected store.
explain
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, intermittent demand. Works without a connected store.
forecast
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 used (Holt-Winters seasonal, damped trend, Croston for intermittent demand, or moving average) and why. Works without a connected store.
purchase
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 otherwise modify an order. Requires a connected Forthcast store; the assistant will prompt to sign in.
reorder
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 does not create a PO. Requires a connected Forthcast store; the assistant will prompt to sign in.
score
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 ahead, On track, Excess, No demand), reorder points, suggested quantities and inventory value. Works without a connected store.
supplier
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. Requires a connected Forthcast store; the assistant will prompt to sign in.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://app.forthcast.io/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 441 ms | 9 min ago |
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Forthcast Inventory — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Forthcast Inventory do?
It exposes 11 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: calculate_order_quantity, calculate_reorder_point, explain_inventory_metric, find_inventory_items, forecast_demand_series, get_inventory_item and 5 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
What is Forthcast Inventory mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around inventory and calculate. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Forthcast Inventory working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 449 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Forthcast Inventory?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Forthcast Inventory need an API key?
No. Forthcast Inventory completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 11 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Forthcast Inventory?
It answers our handshake in 449 ms on average, which is faster than 28% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.