Planning · MRP studio
Planning that answers what if, and shows its working
Most mid-market MRP ends in an export. Cairn plans on a graph of your demand, supply, bills and vendors, 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.
Pegging · oat milk
Retailer order, 600 cases of oat milk
Due Nov 20
600 cases of oat milk, line 2
Starts Nov 12 · needs 1,200 kg oat base
800 kg oat base, Nov 6
Nets on its own date
400 kg oat base
Release Nov 3 · covers the rest
Reschedule, reduce and cancel never name PO-2231: it is firm. A firm order past its date is still reported past due.
The legacy gap
A plan you can interrogate, not a grid you have to trust
Also in the studio
Graph-based planning
Demand, supply, bills, routings, vendors and sites are one connected graph. A recommendation is pegged to its demand, a shortage is followed to its cause, and a change at one node ripples to every order it touches.
Pegging on every row
Trace any recommendation to the sales order, forecast bucket or work order that caused it, and any demand to the supply that covers it.
A time-phased drawer
Open a row to see the item at that site: projected balance by period, supply and demand against it, consumption of the forecast, and a timeline of what arrives when.
Part substitutes
A short component does not stall the build. The engine takes the approved substitute on the bill, and the plan says which part it used and why.
Firm means firm
A firm purchase order nets on its own date and is never put up to move, reduce or cancel. A shortage it leaves gets a new planned order, and a firm order past its date is still reported past due.
One request, one transaction
Every studio gesture is one request that carries the fresh rows back, and a bulk release is one transaction: every order exists afterwards, or none does.
Bring your own bill of materials
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.
Get a demoWhite-glove implementationNo per-transaction feesNo surprise invoices
