Software plus an embedded senior supply chain expert. Built for mid-market manufacturers and distributors who've outgrown spreadsheets but aren't ready for SAP IBP.
15 years in supply chain at Walmart, Campbell's, and Kimberly-Clark.
Forecaster
A demand forecast your operation can actually execute.
Explore Forecaster →Capacity
Know what you can commit to before you promise it.
Explore Capacity →Inventory & Materials
Know what you will run out of, and what to order today.
Explore Inventory & Materials →Agent
Ask your operations data a question. Get an answer, not a spreadsheet hunt.
Explore Agent →The platform
The same demand drives the forecast, the production schedule, and the materials you buy. Every number traces back to the file it came from.
Capacity module
In the field
Can we say yes to Costco? A $50M manufacturer got a defensible commit in 30 seconds instead of three weeks of spreadsheet wrangling.
Why capacity comes first
You can't forecast what you can't execute.
Forecaster module
Inventory & Materials module
In the field
The question a buyer actually asks: why do I need 2,161 kilos that week. The answer names the finished items and the production runs consuming it.
Agent module
See how it works in 30 seconds
Tom runs production at a $50M manufacturer. He just landed Costco distribution. Watch how BetterDemand answers: can we scale to match?
The scenario this product was built for
Tom runs production at a $50M manufacturer. He just landed Costco distribution — 23 stores, 14-week lead time, double the unit volume of any deal he's done before. His current planning system: 8 spreadsheets and a Slack channel.
Will production scale? Suppliers? Inventory?
With BetterDemand, he gets the answer in 30 seconds, not 3 weeks.
Where we fit
Free, flexible, breaking down the moment your business gets complex. One person owns the schedule. No one else can run it.
$0 — but the hidden cost is missed orders.
Mid-market capacity planning, materials and inventory planning, demand forecasting, and an AI agent across all of it, with an embedded senior expert. Sized for $30M to $250M companies. Live in days from the files you already have. Money-back guarantee in year one.
$6K–$70K/year, all-in.
Anaplan, Kinaxis, o9. Powerful, mature, and priced for Fortune 500 budgets. Implementation alone often costs more than mid-market companies can afford.
$100K–$500K+/year, plus implementation.
Most mid-market companies are stuck choosing between tools that are too small or too big. We built the missing tier.
What makes us different
Most software lets you log in and figure it out. We embed a senior practitioner (today: the founder, with 15 years across Walmart, Campbell Soup, Kimberly-Clark, BMS, and Gilead) who runs your monthly S&OP cadence, owns forecast accuracy, and is your second pair of eyes on every planning decision. No separate consulting fee. No "implementation partner" markup.
Operators do not want to navigate four modules. They want answers. The BetterDemand agent reads the same data every screen reads: the forecast, the production schedule, on-hand inventory and open purchase orders. Ask it whether you have enough whey protein for the production plan and it answers from the plan, names the purchase order whose timing decides it, and tells you when ordering today can no longer fix the problem.
$6K–$70K/year for the full platform — start at the entry tier and grow. If BetterDemand doesn't pay for itself in year one, you get your money back. Capped at four new clients per quarter so we can deliver.
How it answers
Planning software earns its place by being auditable. Every answer names the run, the schedule and the data dates it computed from. Every override is attributed to a person and revertible. Verdicts are computed from your data rather than composed, and when the data cannot answer a question, the system says so instead of guessing.
Every upload, edit, adoption and optimization is stamped with who did it and when, and the log exports.
Suggested orders and transfer recommendations are review lists. The system flags and explains, and the planner decides.
Where a capability is a feasibility check rather than an optimizer, the product says so on the screen.
JSI Partners track record
BetterDemand was built on 10+ years of enterprise supply chain execution. The same intelligence that delivered these results at scale — now accessible to companies doing $30M–$250M for the first time.
Global inventory reduction led and developed over a 5-year engagement with a multi-billion dollar enterprise.
Enterprise · GlobalRevenue increase from forecasting process improvements — achieved by reducing stockouts and improving service levels while keeping inventory flat.
Consumer Goods · GlobalImprovement in retail business processes for an $80M annual category through strategic S&OP redesign and demand signal work.
Retail · $80M CategoryThe math
Compare a month of BetterDemand to the costs a spreadsheet-planned operation eats without noticing.
One planning miss
One expedited air shipment
$8,000 to $25,000A single ocean-to-air switch on one SKU. One event often costs more than a year of BetterDemand.
Two weeks out of stock on a top item
$40,000 to $150,000Lost orders, the substitute your customer found, and the fill-rate penalty from your biggest account.
One pallet of write-offs
$5,000 to $20,000Inventory bought against a forecast nobody trusted, aging past its window in the warehouse.
One order you could not say yes to
$25,000 to $250,000Revenue that walked because nobody could confirm capacity in time. Often the same customer stops asking.
Typical ranges for mid-market operations. Your numbers may run higher.
BetterDemand
Starting at
Forecasting, capacity planning, and supply monitoring that catches the misses before they become invoices.
Year one carries a money-back guarantee.
Built to make your planning lead faster and harder to surprise, not to replace them.
Book a 20-minute demoMost operations find the first prevented miss pays for the year.
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Pricing
Annual subscription. Sized for $30M–$250M mid-market manufacturers and distributors.
Starting at
Production and capacity planning. Replaces spreadsheets with a system that holds.
Starting at
Agent layer monitors your operation continuously and flags what matters.
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The complete stack with a senior operator embedded alongside your team.
Built to make your planning lead faster and harder to surprise, not to replace them.
Your final monthly price depends on the operational complexity of your business, not your revenue. Factors that may scale pricing above the starting tier:
We size pricing during a 30-minute discovery call. No surprises later.
Not every team needs demand forecasting. Capacity, the Agent, and Inventory & Materials run together as their own configuration, driven by a demand plan you upload. We size that on the same complexity factors as every other tier.
Annual billing. Onboarding $5K–$25K one-time depending on tier. Year-one money-back guarantee. We cap new clients at four per quarter.
About
Founded by Josh Isenberg, who's led $1B+ in inventory reductions across his career.
BetterDemand operates under JSI Partners, a supply chain consultancy serving mid-market manufacturers and distributors. BetterDemand is the technology layer alongside the consulting practice.
Built specifically for the $30M–$250M revenue band — companies that have outgrown spreadsheets but can't justify enterprise systems.
JSI Partners on LinkedIn →From the blog
Mid-market companies keep buying tools to fix forecast accuracy. The real issue is ownership and process. Here's what actually moves the number.
Mid-market supply chain teams make $500K decisions every week using spreadsheets and experience. Here's what that tools gap is really costing you.
Set once during an ERP implementation and never touched again — that buffer inventory has quietly become either a cash trap or a stockout waiting to happen.
A 20-minute demo run against a real mid-market dataset. No data prep, no commitment.
15 years in supply chain at Walmart, Campbell's, and Kimberly-Clark.
If you sign up and BetterDemand doesn't pay for itself in year one — every dollar back.