S&OP planning done in minutes.
Ceres is the AI planning engine between your ERP and your decisions. It reads demand signals from every customer, reconciles them against your plan, forecasts every grain — enriched by 10B+ external signals — and flags the exceptions that need a decision, before the cycle closes.
Book a DemoCustomer releases landed 14% above forecast on three programs. Ceres traced the ripple — 6 orders now short on inventory, 4 POs under-committed. Caught before the planning cycle.
Input costs up 8.3% over six weeks; a key lane slowing. Mapped to your plan: 4 open contracts exposed, no Q4 coverage locked. Margin impact modeled across scenarios.
Customer signals, Sales, and ERP reconciled into one plan everyone could see. Decision logged. Cycle closed 4 days early, within 1% of plan.
ERP Executes. Excel Reconciles. Neither Scales for S&OP.
External signals affect your operations long before they show up internally. Ceres watches them, scores what they mean for your specific records, and routes the decision to the right person before the window closes.
The Grind
Demand signals land, and planners spend time reconciling, mapping, and rebuilding comparison reports in Excel before they can plan.
The Coverage Gap
Finding an exception is only half the work. The other half — what it does to the inventory you're holding and the orders you've already placed — is where time and money quietly slip away.
The Static Scenario Plan
Plans are built once, on fixed assumptions. When a tariff hits or demand swings, there's no fast way to test how internal and external factors play out across S&OP — so you react after the change, not before it.
The Reconciliation Problem
Customer signals say one thing, Sales says another, your ERP a third. Aligning production to the sales forecast means reconciling all three in Excel.
Where Ceres fits
Ceres sits alongside your existing stack — it doesn't replace anything. Here's how the layers work together.
Designed for internal operations and records — and does that job well. External signals, real-time market conditions, and upstream disruptions aren't in scope by design.
Turns your internal data into historical trends and views. Good for understanding what's happened with external context — still needs to be sourced and interpreted separately.
Does the planning work. Ingests demand from every customer, layers on 10B+ external signals, reconciles it into one plan, forecasts every grain, and flags the exceptions that need a decision, then feeds the result back into your systems.
Ceres applies across any industry where external signals affect internal decisions. Here are some of the examples.
See how it works in your environment.
We'll show you how Ceres maps to your specific records, suppliers, and risk scenarios in 30 minutes.
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