Planning

An MRP that doesn't break when the supply chain does

Most mid-market MRP is weak or notoriously buggy, so planners abandon it for spreadsheets. Cairn models your whole supply web instead of a single chain, so the plan stays intact through messy, real-world updates, and explains itself.

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The legacy gap

Traditional MRP walks a single linear chain of dependencies. One discrepancy or a multi-leg disruption breaks the chain, the plan goes wrong, and planners flee to offline sheets.

What Cairn does

Cairn models supply as a connected web (a graph) of vendor commitments, multi-leg ocean transit, and lot expiration. When one path is blocked, it reroutes around it and tells you why, in plain language.

The payoff

Production and purchasing plans stay intact through non-linear operational updates, and planners trust the system enough to stop keeping a shadow spreadsheet.

Why a web beats a chain

The same disruption, a blocked vendor, in a linear MRP versus Cairn's graph.

Linear MRP

One blocked vendor snaps the chain. Every step downstream is now wrong, and the planner reverts to a spreadsheet.

Cairn — a connected web

Vendor A is blocked, so Cairn reroutes to Vendor B and keeps the build on schedule, and tells you why.

Models the whole web

Supply is a connected graph, not a single chain, so multi-leg disruptions reroute instead of breaking the plan.

Lead-time aware

Plans schedule forward against real lead times and in-transit commitments, not an idealized due date.

Lot-expiry aware

Expiration dates factor into planning natively, so you don't build against stock that will expire first.

Explains its plan

Each recommendation comes with a natural-language rationale, so planners understand the why.

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