A plan that survives the lead times you actually get
Planning fails when it runs on quoted lead times and last year’s demand. We build the plan on what your suppliers and your orders have actually done.
The forecast is a spreadsheet one person maintains.
Purchasing buys to a lead time nobody has checked in two years.
Every shortage is a surprise, and every surprise is expedited by air.
Sales, operations and finance each hold a different number.
Demand planning
Statistical baseline, promotion and seasonality overlays, and a place for the judgement call to be recorded.
Supply and sourcing
Material requirements, purchase planning, approved vendor lists and multi-source allocation rules.
Supplier collaboration
Purchase order confirmation, shipment notice and schedule sharing, without an email chain.
Sales and operations planning
One monthly number the three functions sign, with the assumptions attached to it.
Included in every planning scope
History cleanse and outlier review Lead time measurement Segmentation and policy rules Safety stock model Forecast accuracy reporting Exception and alert design Planner runbook S&OP meeting pack
The seams we design first
What AI does in planning, specifically
It proposes and explains. A planner still owns the number that goes into the plan.
Demand signal
Forecasts that take in promotions, seasonality and open orders, and show which assumption moved the number.
Lead time learning
Actual supplier performance measured per item and site, replacing the quoted figure in the planning parameters.
Supplier risk flags
Deteriorating confirmation and delivery behaviour surfaced early, with the orders exposed to it listed.
Scenario compare
Two plans side by side with the service, stock and cost consequence of each stated in the same units.
Show us last quarter’s forecast miss.
We will trace it back to the assumption or the data that caused it.