Two problems operators describe as one: they cannot see what they are going to need, and they cannot sequence what they have already committed to. Both currently live in a spreadsheet next to the ERP.
“Forecasting is guesswork.”
President · import-heavy distributorOperators used the word guesswork. A forecast without a stated error range is guesswork with a decimal point, so we show the band and track our accuracy per SKU and site.
Import-heavy supply chains were called out specifically. Reorder recommendations respect the lead time that actually applies, not a default.
Scheduling against real available capacity rather than theoretical throughput, so the backlog reflects what will happen.
The most expensive scheduling error is a promise you cannot keep. That gets surfaced before it is made, with the constraint named.
On a short cycle this never bites — you quote, you ship, the number is right. On a fourteen-week cycle, quotes accepted in March consume stock that arrives in June, and the on-hand figure everyone is reading is a number about the past.
The measurable outcome is not a prettier dashboard. It is fewer stockouts on the items that matter, and fewer commitments that quietly slip.
Plan & Flow is $2,000 a month, billed annually — $24,000 a year. Monthly billing is available at +15%. Connect, the layer that reads your system of record, ships with it at no extra cost. Most operators run one or two modules; past that, Closed Loop prices the whole operation by revenue and installed addresses instead, from $2,500 a month — and adds the unit ledger no single module can produce alone.
A free Margin Scan reads your data and tells you what your pricing is leaking. No implementation, no commitment.