Planning as a Service

Experienced Planners.Digitized Delivery.Optimized Performance.Better Value.

PlanWell combines experienced planners, digitized workflows and advanced analytics to run and continuously improve the planning work your business depends on.

Demand Planning Supply Planning S&OP orchestration
A professional team collaborating together in a modern corporate office
+20 ptsforecast accuracy
-75%monthly exceptions
3 wksrapid activation
ExperiencedDigitizedOptimized
The planning challenge

Business volatility is rising. Planning capacity is not.

Hiring and retaining experienced planners is difficult. Planning technology requires specialized skills. Meanwhile, every missed signal can create excess inventory, service issues or avoidable cost.

01

Specialized talent is scarce

Experienced planning resources are hard to recruit, slow to onboard and difficult to retain—especially when teams are already stretched.

02

Tools need expert operators

Planning platforms only create value when models are tuned, data is managed and teams know how to turn signals into decisions.

03

Complexity keeps compounding

New products, channels, acquisitions and supply constraints increase the volume of decisions without increasing the time available to make them.

What is Planning as a Service?

Flexible planning expertise, delivered through your operating rhythm.

PlanWell is a pay-as-you-go model for tactical planning and S&OP support. We can manage a focused capability, work alongside your team or orchestrate the full routine.

Capabilities

Right-sized support across the planning cycle.

Teams have different needs, and our PaaS partnership has tiered options to customize your level of support.

Build a more accurate, responsive demand plan.

Standard

The Modeler

Expert execution of the demand planning engine and core monthly process.

  • Evaluate history and manage outliers
  • Select and tune forecast models
  • Analyze and apply causal factors
  • Manage assumptions and adjustments
  • Publish the demand plan
  • Digitize the process
Premium

The Orchestrator

End-to-end demand planning support, routine facilitation and continuous improvement.

  • All responsibilities from Standard and Plus
  • Prepare analytics and S&OP routine content
  • Facilitate S&OP Routine(s) and drive follow-ups
  • Monitor & Improve Routine Effectiveness

Translate demand into practical supply actions.

Standard

The Modeler

Expert execution of the supply planning engine and core monthly process.

  • Evaluate and manage Master Schedule
  • Propose supply orders (MRP, DPR, etc.)
  • Analyze and apply inventory policy
  • Manage inventory exceptions
  • Digitize the process
Premium

The Orchestrator

End-to-end supply planning support, routine facilitation and continuous improvement.

  • All responsibilities from Standard and Plus
  • Prepare analytics and S&OP routine content
  • Facilitate S&OP Supply Routine(s)
  • Manage follow-up and action items
  • Monitor & Improve Routine Effectiveness
Illustrative outcomes

Measurable improvement—not just extra capacity.

Our model is designed to improve planning performance while creating a more scalable, resilient operating structure.

Forecast performance+20 ptsforecast accuracy improvement achieved in client partnerships
Exception efficiency-75%reduction in monthly exceptions through automation and model management
Speed to value3 wksto operationalize an urgent Planning as a Service partnership
Scalable growth70%increase in demand-unit volume supported with only 15% incremental effort

Results are based on selected client examples and will vary by starting point, scope, data quality and level of organizational adoption.

Our approach

Understand first. Deploy quickly. Improve continuously.

A structured path to stand up a tailored, digitized planning process in 12 weeks or less.

2–4 weeks

Assess

Evaluate the current month-in-the-life, segment demand, baseline performance and identify the highest-value opportunities.

4–6 weeks

Deploy

Design the operating rhythm, define service levels, onboard data, build models and automate recurring analysis.

Ongoing

Run & iterate

Operate the process, report performance, improve models and scale workflows as business needs evolve.

When you choose

Return

Transition the capability in-house with planning playbooks, training, recruiting support and a 12-month improvement roadmap.

Client stories

Planning partnerships built for real-world moments.

From sudden resource gaps to underperforming forecast processes, PlanWell can stabilize today’s work while creating a stronger long-term capability.

Food service equipment

Stabilized planning in three weeks.

When a manufacturer’s only demand planner resigned during an S&OP rollout, a Planning as a Service partnership was operationalized in three weeks—protecting the launch and covering the workload of two planning roles.

+20 ptsforecast accuracy
3 weeksto activate
1 FTErepurposed strategically
Consumer manufacturing

Improved accuracy without displacing the team.

A right-sized Modeler partnership strengthened forecast performance while providing on-the-job coaching to the internal planning team and reducing manual exception work.

90%on-time delivery
-75%exception workload
+20%forecast accuracy
PlanWell — Experienced. Digitized. Optimized.
Why PlanWell?

We're more than an outsource company and PaaS is more than just replacing headcount.

We have experience and heart

We bring the collective experience of IBP2’s knowledge and experience to work for you. Our people are passionate about planning and the positive impact it can have on a company... and its people.

We get it done – fast & digitally

We bring our best: expert resources, refined processes, and advanced capabilities. Our planners adopt AI driven analytics and digital is in their DNA. We deploy capabilities quickly, so you’re ready to take on anything as your business grows.

We bring people together

We are a team of collaboration engineers. So, as your partner, we won’t just accelerate your process maturity, we’ll elevate your collaboration game. And we’ve seen the business benefits that flow from that collaboration, whether that’s deployed within your company or across your entire ecosystem.

Let’s plan what’s next

Build the planning capability your business needs now.

Tell us where planning is creating friction. We’ll help define a right-sized partnership that strengthens performance without locking you into a one-size-fits-all model.