Demand planning · for manufacturers

Your demand plan is costing you twice.

Forecast error shows up on both ends — lost margin when you stock out on the movers, cash frozen in overstock on the rest. We build modern demand planning + AI forecasting that cuts both.

~20%forecast-accuracy gain
~30%less inventory on the shelf
$250Mmanufacturer — where the operator ran planning
demand-forecast.agent● LIVE
› what's at risk of stockout next 30 days?
7 SKUs trending past safety stock — SKU-2210 first, demand up 18% vs forecast. live ERP
+19.4%
accuracy gain
Stockouts
On the SKUs that actually move. Lost margin you hand straight to a competitor.
Overstock
Cash frozen in inventory that won't sell for two quarters — plus the markdowns to clear it.
Blind spot
Nobody can tell you today which SKUs are about to stock out and which are quietly eating working capital.
What we build

Planning that forecasts — not a bigger spreadsheet.

If you plan demand in spreadsheets, you pay every quarter — and you barely see it. Here's what replaces it.

01 / MODEL

A real planning model

One shared number, live data piped from your ERP and POS, scenario planning in minutes. The spreadsheet retires.

02 / FORECAST

An AI forecasting layer

Statistical + machine-learning forecasts benchmarked against your current accuracy, by SKU — the part most planning shops can't build.

03 / INVENTORY

Inventory that self-optimizes

Service-level-driven, per-SKU safety stock that adjusts to demand and lead-time — cash off the shelf, fill rate up.

Built to run

Where the cash is quietly hiding.

The planning-maturity scorecard

Five questions that tell you if your S&OP is leaving millions on the table.

01

Forecasting method

Last-year-plus-X in Excel, or statistical + AI, accuracy tracked by SKU?

02

Data integration

Manual exports, or live pipelines from ERP / POS / orders?

03

S&OP cadence

Ad-hoc, or a real monthly process with one shared number?

04

Scenario / what-if

None, or model promos, lead-time shifts and shocks in minutes?

05

Inventory optimization

Blanket safety stock, or service-level-driven and dynamic?

Score yourself in the free interactive teardown — it also estimates the cash your forecast error is costing you right now.

The engagement

Built around the number, not billable hours.

Start with a teardown that puts a dollar figure on your forecast error. Then we build the model + AI forecasting, run it in parallel for one cycle to prove the lift, and cut over.

Teardown → Build → Cutover

A plan that proves the lift before you trust it.

Not a bigger spreadsheet. A real planning model with live data, scenario planning, and an AI-forecasting layer benchmarked SKU by SKU against your current accuracy — run in parallel for one cycle before cutover.

The guarantee: hit the forecast-accuracy or inventory-reduction target we set — or a slice of the fee is on me.
Get a free teardown
Three ways to engage
01
Planning Teardown — maturity score + stranded-inventory estimate, free. The paid diagnostic adds a SKU-level forecast-accuracy audit and the roadmap.
Free → $4,500
02
Demand-Planning Implementation — the planning model, live data, scenario planning, and the AI-forecasting layer, built, benchmarked, and run in parallel before cutover.
Project fee · core build
03
Managed Planning Retainer — ongoing model expansion, new scenarios, forecast tuning, and a monthly accuracy + inventory report for the board.
$3–8K / mo
Why me

I ran planning at a $250M manufacturer. I lived this exact pain.

Spreadsheet S&OP cost us every quarter — stockouts on the sellers, dead inventory on the rest, and a forecast nobody fully trusted. Moving to a real planning model with an AI forecasting layer moved millions on a single product line.

Now it's all I do: modern demand planning for manufacturers your size — the ones drowning in spreadsheets and too small for a six-figure SI engagement.

Start with a free teardown
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Want your real number?

Send me read-only access to your current plan (or a sample) and I'll do a free teardown — your actual forecast accuracy, where the cost is hiding, and what's recoverable. You keep the analysis either way.