Phyle Inventory Control Specialists-(PICS) Phyle Inventory Control Specialists (PICS) is the 3rd largest National Inventory Service in the country. PICS is owned by Charles E. Phyle Sr, CEO and founder of A.S.T., Inc., which for 33 years was the sole provider of all hardware, including handheld barcode scanning equipment and software used by a national inventory service. After the purchase of that service by an investment group in 2005, Chuck Phyle severed the business relationship with them. With all technology and software tools in place, including software programmers, engineers, service technicians and all manufacturing, Chuck decided to start his own inventory service; thus the birth of PICS and the only inventory company in the world with all aspects of our busines