# Plan-to-Produce Agents and apps built for the Plan-to-Produce process handle the work that keeps supply aligned with demand — from building the forecast and tuning safety stock through to managing product introductions, phase-outs, and production exceptions. The use cases below are grouped by sub-process. **Agents** run on their own and report back; **Apps** are surfaces your team opens and acts in; **Dashboards** give live visibility without requiring interaction. *** ## Demand & forecasting *Building and maintaining forward-looking demand plans — with sight of the assumptions driving each line.* ### Agents {% hint style="info" %} **Agents** run on a defined cadence — pulling actuals, generating projections, and surfacing where the plan is diverging from reality. {% endhint %} #### Campaign Forecasting & Planning Get usable campaign volumes to supply chain before launch — not after. Builds sales forecasts for promotional campaigns by pulling historical sales, product data, and customer-specific signals from source systems. Generates volume projections per SKU and customer and produces the outputs supply chain and finance need downstream. | | | | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Value driver** | Revenue | | **KPI moved** | Campaign sell-through rate | | **What it does** | Pull signals · Generate projections · Produce downstream outputs | *** ### Apps {% hint style="info" %} **Apps** are surfaces your team opens — interactive tools, dashboards, and workspaces. A dashboard is a type of app that gives live visibility; other apps let your team take action, approve decisions, or run structured workflows. {% endhint %} #### Demand Forecast Workbench Adjust the forecast with sight of which assumption drives each line. Visualises the components of the forecast (baseline, seasonality, campaign uplift, customer-specific patterns) at the level downstream consumers need: SKU, customer, region, time period. Lets the forecaster see which assumption is driving each line and adjust before publishing. | | | | ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | | **Value driver** | Service Level | | **KPI moved** | Forecast accuracy (MAPE) | | **What it does** | Visualise forecast components · Adjust before publishing | *** #### Campaign Volume Planner Replace the 100-column campaign spreadsheet with a workflow that has an audit trail. Structured workflow for planning trade promotion campaigns: campaign list, calendar timeline, SKU association, weekly volume editing, and budget vs spend. Produces the volume projections supply chain and finance need downstream, with full audit trail and change tracking on every modification. | | | | ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | **Value driver** | Revenue | | **KPI moved** | Campaign sell-through rate | | **What it does** | Plan volumes by SKU · Track budget vs spend · Audit trail | *** ## Inventory & stock management *Keeping inventory levels right — catching slow movers early and tuning safety stock before it becomes a service level problem.* ### Apps {% hint style="info" %} **Apps** are surfaces your team opens — interactive tools, dashboards, and workspaces. A dashboard is a type of app that gives live visibility; other apps let your team take action, approve decisions, or run structured workflows. {% endhint %} #### Safety Stock Analyzer See the stock-out vs working-capital trade-off before tuning parameters. Compares current safety stock, minimum order quantity, and order increment against historical issue patterns and planned allocations. Surfaces items at risk of stock-out and items carrying more buffer than the variability justifies. Lets planners see the trade-off before touching ERP parameters. | | | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **Value driver** | Working Capital | | **KPI moved** | Inventory turnover | | **What it does** | Compare safety stock to history · Surface over- and under-buffered items | *** #### Weekly Call-Off Report Get the week's call-offs into buyers' inboxes before they open planning. Runs every Monday: fetches call-off data from the data warehouse, generates a structured Excel report of purchase order releases due that week, and emails to defined recipients. Replaces the manual pull that used to start every buyer's week. | | | | ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | | **Value driver** | Working Capital | | **KPI moved** | Inventory turnover | | **What it does** | Fetch call-off data · Generate report · Email recipients | *** #### Slow-Moving Stock Monitor Quantify the working capital tied up in aging stock. Compares current inventory levels against historical sales to surface slow-moving stock. Lets planners and category managers see which items are aging out and how much working capital is tied up in them. Feeds the phase-out and rundown workflows. | | | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | | **Value driver** | Working Capital | | **KPI moved** | Obsolescence write-off $ | | **What it does** | Surface slow movers · Quantify working capital at risk | *** #### Distribution Order Tracker Spot internal supply flow patterns worth rebalancing. Shows distribution orders per item over time, with warehouse, site, and safety stock context pulled from the ERP. Lets logistics and planning see where transfers are clustering, which sites pull from which, and how the pattern is shifting. | | | | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | | **Value driver** | Service Level | | **KPI moved** | Fill rate % | | **What it does** | Track distribution orders · Spot rebalancing opportunities | *** ## Production & capacity *Keeping production plans honest — with visibility of where workload and capacity do not line up.* ### Apps {% hint style="info" %} **Apps** are surfaces your team opens — interactive tools, dashboards, and workspaces. A dashboard is a type of app that gives live visibility; other apps let your team take action, approve decisions, or run structured workflows. {% endhint %} #### Capacity vs Workload Planner Plan staffing against workload at the work centre level — and see where the assumptions held. Forward planning view that compares planned production workload against expected workforce capacity (accounting for planned absences) per work centre. Backward analysis measures actual hours worked against planned capacity to show where assumptions held and where they did not. | | | | ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | | **Value driver** | Productivity | | **KPI moved** | Capacity utilization % | | **What it does** | Plan capacity vs workload · Review actuals vs plan | *** #### Factory Labor Pulse See where labor hours are concentrated and how they are moving. Ingests time-recorder exports across factories and aggregates production order operation labor time per month and factory. Displays trend lines and tables that let operations leads see where labor hours are concentrated and how they are moving period over period. | | | | ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | | **Value driver** | Productivity | | **KPI moved** | Labor hours per unit produced | | **What it does** | Aggregate labor time · Trend by factory and period | *** ## Product lifecycle *Managing new product introductions and phase-outs cleanly — so nothing falls through the gate and nothing lingers past its time.* ### Apps {% hint style="info" %} **Apps** are surfaces your team opens — interactive tools, dashboards, and workspaces. A dashboard is a type of app that gives live visibility; other apps let your team take action, approve decisions, or run structured workflows. {% endhint %} #### Product Phase-In Workflow Get every new product through readiness without anything falling through. Routes new product introductions through the readiness checklist across product management, warehousing, sales, purchasing, and IT governance. Captures GTIN, E-number, multi-language descriptions, vendor info, tariffs, and compliance attributes (REACH/RoHS). Surfaces gaps and at-risk launches as items move through the gates. | | | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **Value driver** | Revenue | | **KPI moved** | Time-to-launch (days) | | **What it does** | Route through readiness gates · Capture launch attributes · Surface gaps | *** #### Product Phase-Out Workflow Retire products cleanly across ERP, BOMs, and wholesalers. Routes product retirements through ERP cleanup, BOM updates, and wholesaler notifications. Replaces the manual spreadsheet and email loop that usually accompanies a phase-out, and ensures downstream systems and partners are updated on the same cadence. | | | | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | | **Value driver** | Working Capital | | **KPI moved** | Obsolescence write-off $ | | **What it does** | ERP cleanup · BOM updates · Wholesaler notifications | *** #### Decommission Approval App Decommission products with a defensible approval trail. Identifies products eligible for decommissioning based on configurable criteria (age, sales volume, EOL date), generates a structured report, sends to stakeholders for approval, and updates the master record only once the approval comes back. Approval is mandatory — nothing is decommissioned automatically. | | | | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | | **Value driver** | Working Capital | | **KPI moved** | Obsolescence write-off $ | | **What it does** | Identify candidates · Generate report · Structured approval | --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.riff.ai/use-cases/plan-to-produce.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. 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