Bring Lot Traceability
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Wherefour to Claude Desktop and start using 12 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Wherefour MCP Server?
Connect your Wherefour account to any AI agent to automate your inventory management, production tracking, and lot traceability. Wherefour provides a specialized ERP platform for manufacturers and producers to maintain end-to-end transparency across their supply chain.
What you can do
- Inventory & Catalog Orchestration — List and search inventory items with detailed metadata, including product codes and manufacturing specifications.
- Lot Traceability — Access stock lot details and batch information to maintain comprehensive quality control and compliance.
- Order Management — Retrieve and monitor sales orders and production orders to keep your manufacturing workflow on track.
- Stakeholder Directory — Access and manage your database of customers, vendors, and suppliers programmatically.
- Financial Insights — Retrieve billing invoices and purchase records directly from the AI interface to monitor operational costs.
- Resource Navigation — Explore storage locations and manufacturing formulas using natural language commands.
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your Wherefour API Key and API Secret from your account settings
3. Select your environment (Production or Sandbox)
4. Start managing your ERP and inventory from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client
Who is this for?
- Operations Managers — quickly check stock levels and production order statuses without switching apps.
- Quality Control Teams — track lot traceability and batch metadata via natural conversation.
- Inventory Controllers — streamline item searches and vendor management through simple AI commands.
Built-in capabilities (12)
Get details of a specific inventory item
Get details of a specific order
List all customers
List production formulas/recipes
List all inventory items
List customer invoices
List storage locations
List all sales and production orders
List purchase records
List all stock lots
List all vendors/suppliers
Search for inventory items
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Wherefour to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 12 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
Wherefour in Claude Desktop
Wherefour and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Wherefour to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Wherefour in Claude Desktop
The Wherefour MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 12 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Wherefour for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Wherefour MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find my Wherefour API Key and Secret?
Log in to your Wherefour account, navigate to Settings > API, and generate a new set of credentials for your integration.
Can the agent check lot availability for a specific item?
Yes! Use the list_stock_lots tool to retrieve all available batches and their current quantities for any item in your catalog.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.