Production planning & capacity for$30M–$250M manufacturers

    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.

    Capacity·Agent·Forecaster

    The platform

    Three modules. One operator who knows them cold.

    Capacity module

    Know what you can commit to before you promise it.

    • Production and labor planning against the plan you actually intend to run
    • Bottleneck visibility across lines, work centers, and suppliers
    • What-if scenarios that show the rescue move, not just the constraint
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    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

    A demand forecast your operation can actually execute.

    • Customer-level forecasts at weekly or monthly cadence
    • Reconcile retailer forecasts against your own, line by line
    • Statistical safety stock and reorder points that move when demand moves
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    Agent module

    Ask your operations data a question. Get an answer, not a spreadsheet hunt.

    • Plain-language questions grounded in your own numbers
    • Round-the-clock monitoring across inventory, suppliers, and capacity
    • Drafts the response and holds it for human approval
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    See how it works in 30 seconds

    Can production scale to match the next big customer win?

    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

    Built for the gap between spreadsheets and enterprise.

    Spreadsheets & Tribal Knowledge

    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.

    BetterDemand

    Mid-market capacity planning, AI agent across the chain, and demand forecasting with an embedded senior expert. Sized for $30M–$250M companies. Money-back guarantee in year one.

    $6K–$70K/year, all-in.

    Enterprise SaaS

    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

    Three things you won't find in any other mid-market planning tool.

    01

    A senior supply chain expert in the subscription

    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.

    02

    One agent across your entire supply chain

    Operators don't want to navigate three modules. They want answers. The BetterDemand agent connects capacity, inventory monitoring, and forecasting — designed so you can ask one question ("can we accept this Costco order if Tom's out next week?") and get an answer that crosses all three engines.

    03

    Sized for mid-market budgets, with year-one money-back guarantee

    $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.

    JSI Partners track record

    The Enterprise Playbook. Mid-Market Price.

    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.

    $1B+

    Global inventory reduction led and developed over a 5-year engagement with a multi-billion dollar enterprise.

    Enterprise · Global
    30%+

    Revenue increase from forecasting process improvements — achieved by reducing stockouts and improving service levels while keeping inventory flat.

    Consumer Goods · Global
    15%

    Improvement in retail business processes for an $80M annual category through strategic S&OP redesign and demand signal work.

    Retail · $80M Category

    The math

    What does a planning miss cost?

    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 $25,000

    A 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 $150,000

    Lost orders, the substitute your customer found, and the fill-rate penalty from your biggest account.

    One pallet of write-offs

    $5,000 to $20,000

    Inventory bought against a forecast nobody trusted, aging past its window in the warehouse.

    One order you could not say yes to

    $25,000 to $250,000

    Revenue 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

    $500/ month

    Forecasting, capacity planning, and supply monitoring that catches the misses before they become invoices.

    Demand forecasting engine: Short and long range, built from your own files
    Capacity and supply constraints: Know what you can commit to before you promise it
    Agent-led monitoring and alerts: Late POs, aging stock, and misses surfaced early
    Rolling 12-month planning horizon: The plan updates as your data does

    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 demo

    Most operations find the first prevented miss pays for the year.

    Go deeper

    Whitepapers and working examples from the operator's side of planning.

    Pricing

    Start where it hurts. Add layers as you grow.

    Annual subscription. Sized for $30M–$250M mid-market manufacturers and distributors.

    Tier 1 · Capacity

    Starting at

    $500/mo

    Production and capacity planning. Replaces spreadsheets with a system that holds.

    • Capacity scheduling
    • Work-center loading
    • Labor allocation
    • Production scenario modeling
    • Supplier & inventory rebalancing
    • Embedded senior expert hours
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    Tier 2 · Capacity + Agent

    Starting at

    $1,400/mo

    Agent layer monitors your operation continuously and flags what matters.

    • Everything in Tier 1
    • Monitoring Agent across inventory, suppliers, capacity
    • Round-the-clock risk alerts
    • Cross-chain reasoning
    • Human approval workflow
    • Anomaly detection
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    Tier 3 · Full system

    Starting at

    $2,500/mo

    The complete stack with a senior operator embedded alongside your team.

    • Everything in Tier 2
    • AI Forecaster — demand forecasting
    • Safety stock + reorder point calculations
    • Embedded senior expert running monthly S&OP
    • Forecast accuracy ownership
    • Executive-ready KPI reporting
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    Built to make your planning lead faster and harder to surprise, not to replace them.

    What affects your price

    Your final monthly price depends on the operational complexity of your business, not your revenue. Factors that may scale pricing above the starting tier:

    • Number of facilities or production sites
    • Number of SKUs, product lines, or active programs we model
    • Data integration complexity (clean APIs vs scattered spreadsheets)
    • Number of users with full access
    • Embedded expert hours per month (Tier 3 only)
    • Onboarding scope and timeline

    We size pricing during a 30-minute discovery call. No surprises later.

    Annual billing. Onboarding $5K–$25K one-time depending on tier. Year-one money-back guarantee. We cap new clients at four per quarter.

    About

    Enterprise supply chain expertise. Built for mid-market manufacturers and distributors.

    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.

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    See where your production plan is breaking.

    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.