Plan-to-Produce
Use cases covering demand forecasting, inventory management, production scheduling, and product lifecycle. For planning, supply chain, and operations teams.
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
Agents run on a defined cadence — pulling actuals, generating projections, and surfacing where the plan is diverging from reality.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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