For Consumer Brands, Retail & Distribution

Enterprise-grade planning for brands, retailers, and distributors

The decision layer on top of your systems — live in weeks, not months. Your business runs on an ERP and channel tools, but the plan runs on spreadsheets: buy sheets, forecast tabs, allocation workbooks held together by tribal knowledge. Plantryx replaces the spreadsheet layer — your systems stay — with AI-native demand planning, supply planning, and a control tower.

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Plantryx Demand Planning — range forecast with confidence level, planning grid by category, and AI insights

Your systems record what happened. They don't help you decide.

The ERP holds the orders, the BI shows the dashboards — but the real planning system is Excel: deciding what to buy, how much, and where to put it happens in workbooks. If any of these sound familiar, you're exactly who we built Plantryx for.

The spreadsheet is the planning system

The forecast lives in one workbook, the buy plan in another, allocation in a third — linked by copy-paste and the one person who knows how it all works. It breaks when they're out, a formula drifts, or two versions collide in email.

Cash trapped in the wrong inventory

Bestsellers stock out while slow movers age into markdowns and write-offs. The overstock and the lost sales are both real — and both invisible until the quarter closes.

SKU count × channels breaks the spreadsheet

Thousands of SKUs across DTC, wholesale, and marketplaces — each channel with its own velocity, seasonality, and lead time. One forecast tab per planner can't keep up, and nobody trusts the rollup.

Long lead times force big-bet buys

Vendor lead times run months, so every PO is a bet placed against promos, seasonality, and demand you haven't seen yet — with no way to test the downside before the cash is committed.

Planning decisions are too dynamic for spreadsheets — and too cross-functional for disconnected workbooks.

What brands and distributors get with Plantryx

Three modules that work as one platform — replacing the spreadsheet layer while your systems stay.

Module

Demand Planning

Forecasts built the way consumer demand actually works — by channel, season, and promotion, at the level you plan.

  • Best-fit model selection per SKU × channel × location
  • Range forecasts backed by explainability and a confidence level — never a single point
  • Promotion- and seasonality-aware, with units, revenue, and margin side by side
  • Scenario planning: what-ifs on price, cost, and volume — adopted into the plan, never a side spreadsheet
  • Planner overrides captured with reasons and audit trails
  • One consensus plan across merchandising, finance, and ops
Module

Supply Planning & Inventory Optimization

Buy and replenishment planning that doesn't stop at "you're low" — it gets you to a funded, approved buy.

  • Buy plans that honor vendor lead times, MOQs, order multiples, and cash constraints
  • Replenishment and allocation from your DC to every channel — simulated before you commit, approved with a full audit trail
  • Inventory optimization: recommended stocking policies simulated on stockout risk vs. working capital; understocked and overstocked SKU-locations surfaced side by side
  • Excess & aging exposure and days-of-coverage risk flagged before they become markdowns or lost sales
Module

Control Tower

The executive layer across demand, supply, and inventory — one picture of what changed and what it costs.

  • Configurable outcome KPIs for executives — with driver KPIs by function beneath them for demand, supply, inventory, and logistics leaders
  • "What changed since last run" feed across demand, supply, and inventory
  • Every KPI move linked to the specific issues driving it — drill from the number to the order
  • Closes decision lag: from signal to approved action in one place

Flag → Prioritize → Size Impact → Recommend → Execute

Plantryx doesn't ask planners to review everything — it tells them what's worth reviewing, with the analysis already done. The weekly cycle shrinks from days of spreadsheet triage to a ranked queue, and decision lag closes with it.

Flag

Every refresh surfaces what changed: demand spikes, supplier slippage, material shortages, promise-date risk, excess building — before they surface in a weekly meeting.

Prioritize

Issues are ranked by business consequence — expected value, urgency, and days to impact — not by who shouts loudest.

Size Impact

Every issue is quantified before anyone opens a spreadsheet: revenue at risk, cost to recover, time to failure.

Recommend

Each issue carries a recommended action with a confidence score, plus alternatives to compare — owned and worked in one shared workspace.

Execute

Approved actions flow back into your workflow. Routine moves can auto-execute within policy thresholds your team sets; everything else waits for a planner.

AI-native, not AI-wrapped

Most tools bolt a chatbot onto old workflows. Plantryx redesigns the workflow so signals become decisions. Here's specifically where AI does the work — automating friction, never the planner's judgment.

Forecasting

Best-fit model selection per SKU × channel × location

The platform detects each item's demand pattern — seasonal, intermittent, trending, lumpy — and applies the best-fit model from a library of 25+ models spanning statistical forecasting, machine learning, and ensembles. Models retrain as new data arrives, so forecasts adapt instead of decaying. Every forecast is a range backed by a confidence level and explainable drivers — not a single point you're forced to trust.

Demand Sensing

External signals enrich the forecast

AI watches the signals consumer demand actually moves on — sell-through and POS, marketplace and web trends, promo response — detects shifts early, and flags them with their forecast impact, so the plan reacts in the same cycle instead of next month's review.

Scenario Planning

What-ifs with supply reality attached

Build named scenarios on the levers that actually move a brand's plan — a price change, a landed-cost increase, a volume push — scoped to a vendor, category, or product. See margin, revenue, and volume impact side by side, run a supply feasibility check before committing, then adopt the winning scenario into the plan. Non-destructive and fully auditable.

Grounded Intelligence

Every AI claim tied to a fact in your data

When AI diagnoses an issue or writes a narrative, every number in it is traceable to a published fact from your ERP — the order, the PO, the inventory position. No black-box scores, no hallucinated impacts. If the data can't support a claim, the platform says so instead of making one up.

AI Co-Planner

An AI assistant on every issue — and in every meeting

Open any flagged issue and the AI co-planner walks you through it: what happened, the evidence behind it, and selectable costed action options. Ask it to adjust a forecast, rebalance an allocation, or draft the vendor follow-up — then compare tradeoffs and act. In planning meetings, ask it questions in plain language: why a forecast moved, where excess is building, which channel is driving the miss.

The AI recommends and drafts; actions execute only with planner approval — or automatically, within policy thresholds your team has pre-approved.

Continuous Learning

The system learns from your planners

Planner overrides are logged with reasons and outcomes. AI learns which adjustments improved accuracy — so institutional knowledge compounds in the platform instead of walking out the door with a planner.

Live in weeks, not months

Pre-built ERP connectors, out-of-the-box templates, and hands-on onboarding from supply chain practitioners — no multi-quarter implementation, no army of consultants.

See it on your data, not a canned demo

Most brands can't put a number on what their planning gaps cost — in markdowns, stockouts, and trapped cash. That number is exactly what the diagnostic delivers, from a focused data extract, no integration required.