Supply planning
Turn demand, inventory, and pipelineinto a supply plan you can trust.
Vista helps planners translate future demand, usable inventory, inbound supply, lead times, policies, and existing commitments into a time-phased supply plan.
It shows what is covered, what is at risk, why the risk exists, which responses stay feasible, and what you can safely promise.
A complete, governed supply planning workflow — designed to go live in weeks, on the data and systems you already have.
The planning logic
From fragmented inputs to a governed decision.
Vista reads the inputs you already maintain, computes requirements and risk deterministically, and hands planners feasible responses to decide on — with the reasoning preserved at every step.
What Vista reads
- Demand basis
- Usable inventory
- Inbound supply
- Lead times
- Policies
- Existing commitments
What it computes
- Time-phased requirements
- Shortage & excess
- Expiry & coverage risk
What you decide
- Feasible responses
- Governed commitment
Deterministic trace
Evidence bundle
Planning record
The output
What a Vista supply plan looks like.
A time-phased view of what is covered, what is at risk, and what to act on first — every number traceable back to the inputs and the computation behind it.
One plan. Every requirement, its risk, and the reason to act.
Time-phased supply plan · illustrative
Critical item · Northeast DC
Item 4471 · wk 3 – wk 10
Net requirement opens in wk 3; next firm inbound not until wk 6
3 wks short · inbound wk 6
12,400 u
Critical item · West DC
Item 2208 · wk 2 – wk 9
Usable supply falls below policy minimum after two firm commitments
below min · 2 commitments
5,600 u
High-runner SKU · 4 sites
Item 7731 · wk 1 – wk 12
Demand tracking 14% above plan across the quarter
1 site short · 3 watch
48,900 u
Short-dated lot · Central WH
Item 3390 · wk 2 – wk 8
Expiry risk before consumption; regional gaps emerging
expiry risk · 2 regional gaps
9,150 u
Substitutable item · National
Item 5012 · wk 3 – wk 11
Feasible transfer covers the gap without expediting
transfer covers gap
3,700 u
Long lead-time part · Supplier B
Item 8846 · wk 1 – wk 16
Inbound firm; coverage holds across the horizon
covered · inbound firm
1,280 u
Inside the workflow
The supply planning workflow, step by step.
Build the demand basis
Separate historical demand from an accepted planning basis. Assumptions and evidence stay visible, and every input traces back to its source.
Understand usable future supply
On hand, timely inbound, location, expiry and shelf life, holds and exclusions, and existing commitments — the supply you can actually count on.
Calculate time-phased requirements
Compare future demand against usable future supply to surface requirements by item, location, program, or planning dimension.
Find risk before it's an incident
Stockout, excess, expiry, late inbound, policy breach, and commitment risk — with the decision windows that are closing.
Compare feasible responses
Expedite, transfer, re-time, adjust quantities, or accept risk. Weigh the options that are actually feasible before you commit.
Recommendation is not commitment
Recommendations are proposals. Authorized users approve, reject, defer, or override — and only an accepted decision changes the plan.
Preserve the evidence
Input lineage, deterministic calculations, assumptions, alternatives, approvals, and commitment impact — exportable as a review-ready packet.
Go live without replacing the foundation
Vista sits above and across your ERP, WMS, LMIS, spreadsheets, and supplier files. Start with one bounded workflow and expand without replatforming.
Why the plan holds up
Enterprise planning truth, focused implementation.
Enterprise platforms can plan deeply, but often through broad, heavily configured rollouts. Vista focuses the essential planning loop in a bounded workbench — and makes every result defensible.
Deterministic by design
Requirements and risk are computed, not estimated by a model. The same inputs always produce the same plan.
Recommendation ≠ commitment
AI can retrieve, investigate, and explain. Only a governed human action changes what the organization commits to.
Audit-ready by architecture
Every number carries its lineage and calculation. When a plan is questioned, the evidence is already there.
Live in weeks
Enterprise planning capabilities, without the heavyweight implementation.
Vista is designed to put a complete planning workflow into operation in weeks — not to begin a multi-year transformation.
Start with one high-value planning problem. Connect the required data, configure the policies, roles, and decision boundaries, validate the plan run with planners, then expand across products, sites, and workflows as needs grow.
- No rip-and-replace of your ERP
- No multi-year suite transformation
- No armies of specialist consultants
- No waiting quarters before planners see value
Focused implementation. Operational value. Expandable architecture.
One governed workflow
Part of the Vista planning workflow.
Supply Planning
You're hereBalance demand against usable supply, pipeline, and commitments.
Demand Forecasting
Govern the demand basis before it enters the plan.
Inventory Planning
Surface stockout, excess, and expiry risk over time.
Scenario Planning
Compare feasible responses before you commit.
Governed Decisions
Recommendation is not commitment.