We bring AI-assisted forecasting, digital twins, and modern ERP to the shop floor, helping small and mid-size manufacturers replace spreadsheet-and-gut-feel planning with a system that sees what's coming. Hold less, stock out less, put cash back to work.
The tools the big plants use: AI forecasting, digital twins, and connected ERP, made practical and affordable for a mid-size manufacturer. Straight talk about what actually works, from someone who's implemented it on real floors.
Machine-learning demand signals that adapt to seasonality, promotions, and new parts, instead of a static spreadsheet that's wrong the day you save it.
Model your plant before you commit. Test capacity, load, and what-if scenarios risk-free, so decisions are proven on screen before they hit the floor.
Move off whiteboards and spreadsheets to a connected ERP your whole team trusts, with the master data and setup done right. Epicor Kinetic and beyond.
Purpose-built AI agents and automation that kill the manual grind. Built for your process, not bought off a shelf and forced to fit.
None of it means your team is doing anything wrong. It means you've outgrown the tools.
Forecasts that can't keep up with seasonality, promotions, or new part numbers.
Safety stock set once and never revisited, so you're overstocked and stocked out at the same time.
Cash tied up in the wrong inventory while the hot parts run short.
Critical planning knowledge living in one person's head.
Tariffs and lead times swinging faster than a spreadsheet can react.
Purchasing, production, and finance all working from different numbers.
Every engagement is fixed-scope and priced up front. No open-ended hourly meters, no surprises.
A fast, fixed-scope read on your planning health: where cash is trapped, where service is at risk, and the quick wins worth chasing first.
One high-ROI outcome, delivered end to end: forecasting set up, inventory policy redesigned, or the right planning software chosen and implemented.
End-to-end S&OP process, full software rollout, ERP integration, AI forecasting, and team training, sequenced so the business keeps running.
A senior supply-chain planning leader on retainer, managing exceptions, running your reviews, and keeping the plan sharp between projects.
When no off-the-shelf tool fits, we build it. Scheduling boards, planning dashboards, and calculators built on your data and integrated with your ERP. AI-assisted development means a fraction of the cost of a traditional software project, shipped in weeks instead of quarters.
The same four moves every time, so you always know what happens next.
We dig into your data and process to find where cash is trapped and service is exposed.
You get a ranked roadmap: biggest, fastest wins first, tied to real dollars.
We set up the tools, clean the data, and configure the policies alongside your team.
We hand over a plan your team can own, or stay on to run it with you.
Illustrative of what modern planning typically unlocks for a mid-size manufacturer. We'll size the real opportunity in your diagnostic.
Typical annual carrying cost. Every dollar of excess you cut, you stop paying, and free the cash underneath it.
Not quarters. The Sprint model targets a measurable result inside the first engagement.
Done right, planning raises fill rates and reduces inventory at the same time, not one at the expense of the other.
Plug in your own numbers. Each tool shows what the result means and how to read it. No spreadsheet, no sign-up wall.
Open the calculators →What your inventory really costs to hold, and the cash trapped in excess.
The right buffer for your service target, without drowning in stock.
Grade your forecast against reality and spot the hidden bias.
The Planning Desk podcast is where production planners, schedulers, and supply chain leaders get straight talk on planning. No vendor pitch, no hype. It is the same thinking we bring to client work, published in public.
Guest Justin Straub on how quality and planning drive material flow in aerospace, defense, and medical manufacturing. Compliance, traceability, supplier qualification, and what every manufacturer can borrow from the industries that had to get it right first.
Lead-time trends, tariff and sourcing watch, inventory benchmarks, and one sharp planning tip, written for people who run the plan at a manufacturer. No fluff.
The big consultancies chase enterprise. Software vendors sell you their box and leave. We sit in the gap: planning and supply chain, for small and mid-size manufacturers, and nothing else.
That focus is the point. We know your world: the metal, the lead times, the one planner holding it together. So we skip the discovery theater and get to the wins faster.
We're software-agnostic. We'll recommend the platform that fits your business and your budget, not the one that pays us the most. And we build so your team can eventually run it without us.
12+ years at the planning desk, from U.S. Army logistics and the shipping dock to enterprise SIOP across five manufacturing sites. Tyler has run demand-to-capacity planning for a $100M+ operation spanning aerospace, defense, medical, and industrial manufacturing, at names like Arconic, Curtiss-Wright, Graco, Celestica, and Chandler Industries.
The results speak for themselves: 40% fewer expedites, 97% inventory accuracy, 95% on-time delivery across 27 work centers, and whole organizations freed from spreadsheet dependency. Epicor Kinetic, SQL, SIOP architecture, AI-assisted planning: he's built it, debugged it, and made the calls.
A short, fixed-scope diagnostic that turns your real numbers into a clear picture, plus the two or three quick wins worth chasing first.