Scenario planning

Find out what it costs before you commit to it.

Build the promo, the channel launch, or the price change as a scenario on top of live demand. Planster runs it through the real ordering engine and shows you the production it triggers and the cash it commits. Promote it or throw it away.

Master Plan overview — forecasted demand by channel with version indicator and 60-day lock

See the consequence before you commit

Before a scenario touches your plan, Planster runs it through your real ordering engine: which orders move, what inventory looks like week by week, and how much capital the change pulls forward. Adding 22,400 units commits about $292K in production runs. You read that before you say yes.

Consequence preview — order impact, projected inventory, and capital required for a scenario

Promote with a paper trail, and an undo button

Promoting writes the scenario into the plan as a durable version: who promoted it, when, and exactly what changed, down to the cell. Promote the whole thing or cherry-pick channels. Changed your mind? Un-promote restores the plan exactly as it was.

Version history timeline with cell-level change detail and un-promote

Every number explains itself

Promoted changes live as visible layers over your base forecast, not baked-in edits. Click any cell and see the arithmetic: base forecast × promo lift × channel launch = the number on screen, with the scenario, the person, and the date behind each layer.

Layer-stack provenance inspector showing base forecast multiplied through named scenario layers

Duplicate, tweak, compare

A promo lift, a new channel, a price increase — each one is a scenario: a sandboxed set of changes layered over live demand, not a spreadsheet copy that drifts stale by Wednesday. Compare them side by side and keep iterating until one earns its way in.

A lock that keeps production sane

The next 60 days are fenced by default — the window where your orders are already committed and changes cause chaos. Scenarios that reach inside the fence get flagged when you promote, so near-term supply stays stable while you reshape the future.

A baseline to measure against

Keep a base plan alongside the live plan that is actually driving orders, so you can see how far the working plan has moved from where you started.

Overnight

What the agent does with master plan

Every night

The agent watches the plan for gaps and puts them on your morning list — a won deal nobody promoted, a scenario whose order-by date has passed.

What it can’t do

It cannot promote a scenario, un-promote one, or change a plan. Promoting is an explicit human step and there is no setting that delegates it.

How a launch decision actually happens

A brand preparing a 400-door retail launch builds it as a scenario: the fill order, the ramp, the supporting promo. The consequence preview shows it pulls two production runs forward and commits about $292K — before anyone says yes. Three of those weeks land inside the 60-day fence, so they get flagged. The team compares it against a slower onboarding scenario, picks the winner, and promotes it as version 13. When the retailer pushes the reset back a month, un-promote puts everything back.

~$292Kwhat 22,400 units actually commits

Plan the big moves without betting blind

See a scenario run against your own numbers. Most brands run their first what-if on day one.