Founder-led & growing
You still wear too many hats. Inventory planning has become too important to manage by intuition, but you are not ready to hire several specialists.
Done-for-you demand planning, supply planning & analytics
Get the planning team your business needs — without hiring one.
Supplana turns your sales, inventory, and operating data into a professional demand forecast, supply plan, inventory recommendations, and management analytics on a recurring cadence. No planning department to recruit. No new software to implement. No extra team to manage.
- Professional planning outputs
- Senior human oversight
- Works with your existing data
- Month-to-month options
Done for youNot another dashboard to babysit
Output focusedForecasts, plans, risks & decisions
Async firstLess meeting time, more useful work
Scales with youFrom first planner to staff augmentation
Who Supplana is for
For product businesses that know planning matters — but do not want to build the whole function themselves.
Our best customers already feel the pain. They are making inventory decisions with incomplete information, stretching a small operations team too far, or trying to add planning capacity without another long hiring process.
Established & understaffed
You have one or two planners, but need extra capacity, temporary coverage, or help building a more disciplined planning cadence.
PE-backed & value focused
You need repeatable improvements in inventory, working capital, service, and management visibility without permanently expanding headcount.
A different operating model
We don't sell consulting hours. We run your planning process.
Traditional planning teams can lose huge amounts of time to meetings, coordination, and administrative work. Supplana is designed around the final products the business actually needs: the forecast, the supply plan, the inventory decisions, and the management view.
What you actually get
The outputs of a professional planning department.
Every planning cycle is built around a small set of useful work products your team can immediately act on.
Demand forecast
SKU, category, channel, or customer-level outlook with trends, business assumptions, overrides, and forecast-vs-actual performance.
Supply & replenishment plan
What to buy or make, how much, and when — tied to forecasted demand, lead times, inventory, open orders, and service targets.
Inventory risk report
Projected stockouts, excess inventory, slow movers, weeks of supply, and the items that need attention first.
Inventory cash-flow outlook
See upcoming inventory requirements and major buys before they hit the bank account.
Management dashboard
A concise operating view of sales, margin, inventory, service, forecast performance, and the exceptions leadership needs to know.
Exception & action list
Instead of drowning in reports, get a prioritized view of what changed, what matters, and what decision is needed.
How it works
Use the systems you already have. Offload the planning work.
We begin with the data and operating process you already have, then build a repeatable Supplana planning cycle around it.
- 1
Share the inputs
Sales, inventory, open supply, lead times, costs, promotions, and business context.
- 2
We build the planning process
We standardize the forecast, replenishment logic, inventory metrics, reporting, and cadence around your business.
- 3
We run it repeatedly
Your team receives updated forecasts, plans, risks, dashboards, and decision support.
Build the team — or use ours
Get the capability without adding another department to manage.
A full-time planning hire carries salary, benefits, recruiting, payroll costs, onboarding time, and management overhead. Supplana gives you a broader set of planning outputs with a variable operating expense instead.
| What you need | Do it yourself | Hire internally | Traditional consulting | Supplana |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demand forecasting | Your time | Demand planner | Usually project-based | Included |
| Supply / replenishment planning | Your time | Planner or buyer | Usually project-based | Included |
| Inventory analytics | Spreadsheets | Analyst / planner | Often extra scope | Included |
| Management reporting | You build it | Analyst / BI support | Often extra scope | Included |
| Recruiting & onboarding | None | Required | None | None |
| You manage the people/process | Yes | Yes | Usually | No |
| Starting annual cost | Your time + inventory risk | Salary + benefits + overhead | Project dependent | $18K/year |
| Full weekly planning function | Hard to sustain | May require multiple skill sets | Higher recurring cost | $42K/year |
Simple service levels
Pay for the planning capacity and complexity you actually need.
Pricing scales with cadence, complexity, stakeholder load, and how embedded you need us to be.
Professional planning once a month.
Best for smaller product businesses that need to get planning off the owner's or operator's plate.
$1,500/month
- Monthly demand forecast
- Monthly inventory projection
- Purchase / replenishment recommendations
- Stockout, overstock & slow-mover risks
- Standard management dashboard
- One focused planning review per month
- Email support
A real planning service — intentionally kept to a simpler monthly cadence.
We run your planning function every week.
Best for growing product businesses that need planning to become a real recurring business function.
$3,500/month
- Weekly demand forecast updates
- Weekly supply / replenishment plan
- 13–26 week inventory projection
- Stockout & excess-inventory management
- Promo, launch & event adjustments
- Customized management dashboard
- Scenario planning & exception analysis
- Two focused working sessions per month
- Async planner access
The complete Supplana operating model and the right fit for most growing companies.
Add experienced planning capacity without another hire.
Best for mid-market, PE-backed, complex operations, vacancies, and staff augmentation.
$7,500/month
- Everything in Fractional Planning Team
- Complex multi-location / multi-channel planning
- Production constraints and deeper supply logic
- Custom analytics and data work
- S&OP / leadership meeting participation
- Staff augmentation and vacancy coverage
- Priority ad-hoc analysis
- Higher stakeholder and meeting capacity
Complex environments may be scoped above this level.
Not ready for a monthly engagement?
Start with a Planning & Inventory Health Check.
Give us the data. We will show you where the planning process is weak, where inventory is creating risk, and where the biggest opportunities are.
$2,500
Apply the full $2,500 toward your first month of Fractional Planning Team or Embedded Planning when you start within 30 days.
Book a health check- Inventory health & weeks-of-supply review
- Stockout and excess-inventory exposure
- Demand / forecastability assessment
- SKU segmentation
- Planning-process maturity review
- 90-day action plan
Private equity & portfolio companies
Turn planning and inventory into a repeatable value-creation capability across the portfolio.
Deploy the same disciplined planning model at multiple portfolio companies, improve working-capital visibility, add capacity without permanent headcount, and create consistent operating metrics for sponsor-level review.
Portfolio pricing is custom. Start with one company, prove the model, then roll it across additional businesses.
Discuss portfolio planningPortco planning capabilityForecast, supply plan, inventory risk, and recurring cadence.
Sponsor-level visibilityStandard inventory, service, forecast, and working-capital metrics.
Land and expandProve the model at one company, then standardize it across the portfolio.
FAQ
What buyers usually want to know.
Are you software or a consulting firm?
Supplana is a productized planning service. We use analytics, automation, and AI where they improve the work, but the thing you buy is a recurring set of professional planning outputs and decisions.
Why not just hire a planner?
If you need a full-time person embedded in meetings all week, hiring can be the right answer. Supplana is designed for companies that primarily need the high-value outputs without the recruiting, management, and fixed cost of building the function internally.
What determines which plan we need?
The biggest drivers are planning cadence, locations and channels, manufacturing complexity, data cleanliness, stakeholder count, custom analytics needs, and meeting load.
Can you cover a planning vacancy?
Yes. Embedded Planning Partner is designed for staff augmentation, leave coverage, between-hire gaps, transformation periods, and temporary capacity.
Do we need to replace our systems?
No. We generally start with the sales, inventory, ERP, ecommerce, spreadsheet, or reporting data you already have.
Stop managing planning work. Start getting a professional plan.
Tell us how your business works today. We will recommend the lightest Supplana service that can reliably take the planning burden off your team.
Get a planning assessment