Demand planning & forecasting,
without the enterprise overhead

Once your data is unified in Core, planning stops being guesswork. Planner forecasts demand per SKU, aligns your teams on one agreed plan, and turns that plan into replenishment and procurement you can act on, no six-figure planning suite required.

Demand Forecasting

Forecasts that feed your procurement

Statistical and machine-learning models learn the seasonality, trend, and demand patterns in your order history, then push SKU-level forecasts straight into planning, so purchasing stops being a guess.

Seasonality & trend detection per SKUBacktested against your own historyConfidence intervals, not just point estimatesFeeds directly into MRP and replenishment
now
Actuals Forecast Confidence
Consensus Planning

One plan everyone agrees on

Bring statistical forecasts, sales input, and operational constraints into a single consensus plan. Track how accurate each cycle was, see where bias creeps in, and tighten the numbers every period.

Blend statistical, sales, and ops forecastsForecast accuracy and bias trackingReview and override at any levelA single agreed number to plan against
Statistical
1,240
Sales input
1,510
Consensus
1,375
Accuracy
91%
Bias
+3%
Replenishment

From forecast to purchase order

Planner turns demand forecasts into reorder points, safety stock, and suggested order quantities, then surfaces over- and understocked SKUs so you act before they become a problem.

Safety stock and reorder point calculationsABC analysis and over/understock alertsSuggested order quantities per supplierProcurement budgets and approval thresholds
CC-VAN-500
OK
CC-CHOC-500
Reorder
CC-CARAMEL
OK
CC-STRAW-500
Overstock

A pool of proven models,
a champion per SKU

No single model fits every product. Planner trains a pool of established statistical and machine-learning models on your history and lets them compete — the winner forecasts that SKU until something beats it.

01

Backtest

Every enabled model is cross-validated against your own order history, SKU by SKU — no synthetic benchmarks.

02

Crown a champion

The most accurate model wins each SKU. Slow sellers with spiky, intermittent demand get specialist treatment instead of a force-fit.

03

Guardrail

A naive benchmark always runs alongside. A model that can’t beat the baseline never ships — your forecast can’t get worse than common sense.

Auto-ARIMA

Statistical

Searches seasonal and non-seasonal ARIMA configurations automatically and picks the best fit for each series.

Auto-ETS

Statistical

Exponential smoothing that selects its own error, trend, and seasonality structure per SKU.

Holt-Winters

Statistical

Triple exponential smoothing — the classic workhorse for level, trend, and seasonal patterns.

Theta

Statistical

Decomposes each series to model long-term trend and short-term dynamics separately.

XGBoost

Machine learning

Gradient-boosted trees over lagged and rolling demand features, with calendar signals built in.

LightGBM

Machine learning

Gradient-boosted trees built for large panels of series, trained across your whole catalogue at once.

Ensemble

Ensemble

A per-SKU weighted blend of the top backtesting candidates — used when the blend beats any single model.

Seasonal Naive

Benchmark

The honest baseline every champion has to beat — it keeps the sophisticated models accountable.

Plan the whole cycle in one place

Forecast, agree, replenish, and review, all on top of the data you already run in Core.

Demand forecasting

Statistical and ML models chosen per series for accuracy.

Consensus planning

Align sales, ops, and finance on a single agreed plan.

Forecast accuracy

Track bias and error over time, and improve every cycle.

Replenishment

Reorder points and suggested quantities, ready to action.

Inventory optimisation

Safety stock, ABC analysis, and over/understock alerts.

Procurement controls

Budgets, approval thresholds, and spend visibility.

Want to see Planner forecast your demand?

Book a demo and we'll run your own history through the forecasting engine and show you the replenishment plan it produces.