Stephanie Benedetto: Turning Supply Chain Waste Into Value
Stephanie Benedetto
Stephanie Benedetto is a corporate attorney turned climate fintech entrepreneur and CEO of Aloqia, the world's first ERP of Excess™.
After co-founding a sustainable textile manufacturing facility, Stephanie saw how unused inventory quietly erodes billions in value across global supply chains. She built Aloqia, an AI supply chain platform, to help enterprise brands model excess inventory, recover up to 60% more value, and accelerate execution by 83% while delivering measurable economic and environmental ROI.
A Cartier Laureate, MIT Solve winner, and WEF innovator, Stephanie’s work in circular economy technology has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
“Impact means creating scalable, market-driven systems where doing what is right for the planet is also the smartest financial decision for a business.”
Stephanie, tell us about how your work intersects with the impact space.
Coming from three generations of entrepreneurs, I grew up around manufacturing. Today, as CEO and Co-founder of Aloqia, my work sits across enterprise supply chain tech, artificial intelligence, and corporate compliance.
Businesses sit on an estimated $2 trillion in excess inventory: unused raw materials and finished goods that tie up critical working capital and often end up burned or landfilled. Aloqia solves this by leveraging AI-driven inventory management to track, match, and reallocate surplus inventory in real time. Our predictive analytics and intelligence help enterprise brands transform liabilities into immediate bottom-line revenue while saving billions of gallons of water, reducing carbon emissions, and eliminating landfill waste.
What is your own definition of impact?
To me, impact means creating scalable, market-driven systems where doing what is right for the planet is also the smartest financial decision for a business. Coming from a legal and corporate background, I learned early on that goodwill alone doesn't scale at enterprise speed; economic alignment does.
Stephanie, what do you see as the most important issue to address in the next 10 years?
One of the most critical issues we must address is global supply chain inefficiency and overproduction. We live in a world of growing resource scarcity, yet global industry generates billions of tons of wasted raw materials and holds over $2 trillion in surplus inventory annually. If linear production and waste practices continue unchanged, we face severe freshwater shortages and environmental degradation.
The solution lies in shifting supply chains from linear pipelines to predictive, circular networks where waste is minimised from the start. By deploying AI for excess inventory optimisation, enterprise brands can accurately forecast demand, dynamically reallocate surplus materials, and monetise deadstock before it becomes waste. Solving this over the next 10 years will unlock trillions in enterprise economic value while protecting vital natural resources.
What is the greatest challenge you face to scale your impact?
In the supply chain and enterprise technology space, one of the largest obstacles to faster impact is legacy infrastructure and data siloes. Many global supply chains still rely on fragmented legacy software or manual processes, a setup not far removed from how my great-grandfather operated decades ago. Because data on inventory is scattered across disparate systems, organisations often lack clear visibility into how much financial value is trapped in their warehouses.
“Waste is a fundamental financial inefficiency. When brands let millions to billions of dollars of materials collect dust in warehouses, they aren't just impacting the environment; they are burning valuable capital.”
Stephanie, what is your long-term vision and how do you measure & quantify your impact?
Our long-term vision for Aloqia is to build an intelligent, fully circular global supply chain ecosystem where the concept of "waste" is effectively eliminated. We aim to integrate AI so deeply into corporate inventory workflows that surplus inventory is automatically tracked, valued, and redirected into secondary production or resale markets in real time, turning every supply chain liability into a financial asset.
What are some misconceptions you’ve noticed regarding what “impact” is all about?
The single biggest misconception is the idea that impact comes at the expense of profit. That sustainability is merely an added cost or a marketing narrative. Early on, when discussing excess inventory and supply chain waste, people assumed sustainable practices required accepting lower margins or higher operational overhead.
The reality is that waste is a fundamental financial inefficiency. When brands let millions to billions of dollars of materials collect dust in warehouses, they aren't just impacting the environment; they are burning valuable capital.
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