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Every part of the operation, finally connected

Financial-first ERPs automate the books. Cairn runs the operation and the books, with the costing, lots, planning, and trade spend that physical brands actually live on.

The differentiators

Architecture, not add-ons, the structural gaps legacy ERPs handle poorly for CPG.

Quality

Quality control

In most systems a lot is available to pick the moment the receipt posts, and quality lives in a clipboard or an inbox. In Cairn a planned receipt lands in inspection, a failed lot becomes a decision with a reason, and a vendor claim becomes a document with a number on it.

Corrections

Reversing entries

When a posted document turns out to be wrong, most systems offer three exits: reopen a signed month, delete the evidence, or post a manual journal that leaves stock and cost wrong underneath. Cairn gives a posted document two plain verbs, Delete and Reverse, and keeps the trail either way.

Demand

Demand planning

The usual break is the very first step: a forecast built somewhere, pasted somewhere else, and nobody able to say which numbers are the forecast and which a planner changed. In Cairn a forecast run is approved into its demand plan, and the active plans and your firm orders are what the MRP run reads.

Costing

Multi-method parallel costing

Legacy systems lock an item into one costing method the day it's created. Cairn keeps all four live at once, at the item and lot level, so you can see margin under any lens without re-keying a thing.

Landed cost

Landed-cost autopilot

Tracking a container across ocean, port, rail, and warehouse is usually a spreadsheet. Cairn models the whole journey as one inbound asset and self-corrects SKU margins when the final bills land, without reopening the period.

Trade spend

Trade promotion (TPM) ledger

Scan-downs, temporary price reductions, and off-invoice allowances are the second-biggest line on most CPG P&Ls, and they usually live in a spreadsheet. Cairn makes trade spend a native ledger.

Planning

MRP planning studio

Most mid-market MRP ends in an export: the run finishes, the buyer pastes it into a spreadsheet, re-keys dates, and misses the firm order that already covers next month. Cairn's planning studio is a different kind of engine. It plans on a graph of your demand, supply, bills and vendors, runs finite capacity against real calendars, swaps vendors and substitutes parts when the plan calls for it, lets you ask what if before you commit, and shows every change from one run to the next. Nothing else in this tier does this.

Compliance

Traceability & recall

Food-safety compliance is the load-bearing requirement for consumer brands, and in legacy ERPs it's a binder. Cairn keeps full lot genealogy so a recall drill is a query, not a paper hunt.

The connected core

One system of record for the whole order-to-cash and procure-to-pay cycle.

Operations

Real-time inventory & allocation

On-hand, committed, incoming, and available across every warehouse, lot, and bin, in one view, with an allocation engine that keeps reservations honest as orders and POs move.

Order to cash

Orders & invoicing

Sales orders that calculate price and tax, invoice in one click or automatically on creation, and post to the general ledger at the line level, with FEFO fulfillment built in.

Procure to pay

Procurement, containers & 3-way match

AI-suggested vendors and quantities, purchase orders in one click, and receipts that flow straight to stock and the ledger. For import-heavy brands, receive against multi-leg inbound containers so freight and duties land on true cost, with an automated three-way match that surfaces every variance.

Accounting

Double-entry general ledger

Every order, receipt, and work order posts to a GAAP double-entry general ledger automatically, so the close is faster and the numbers reconcile, with multi-entity and multi-currency built in.

Accounting

Lease accounting (ASC 842 / IFRS 16)

Most brands track warehouse, retail, and equipment leases in a spreadsheet and scramble at audit. Cairn captures the lease, amortizes the right-of-use asset, schedules the liability, and posts the journal entry every period, so the balance sheet is current without a month-end fire drill.

Accounting

Fixed asset management & depreciation

The asset register is usually a spreadsheet that drifts from the books. Cairn keeps the register and the general ledger as one: capitalize a machine or fleet, depreciate it on a schedule, and post every entry automatically.

Revenue

Recurring billing & deferred revenue

Subscription boxes and standing wholesale orders mean the same invoices go out every period, and prepaid terms mean the cash arrives before the revenue is earned. Cairn generates the recurring invoices and recognizes the revenue over the term, automatically.

Accounting

Guided financial close

Closing the books is usually a spreadsheet of tasks and a lot of chasing. Cairn turns the close into a guided, AI-assisted checklist that watches the actual ledger: it checks off the steps it can see, surfaces exactly what's still outstanding, and signs the period off when it's done.

Flint, the assistant

Drafts records for one-click approval and explains why the inventory ledger does or does not tie, with every draft waiting for a person.

Replace your legacy ERP. In weeks.

Twelve months and six figures used to be the price of admission. Bring your own items and vendors to a demo and see them in Cairn.

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