Multi-channel and multi-warehouse demand planning
DTC, Amazon, retail and wholesale are forecast separately, because each has its own demand pattern, then combined against one pool of inventory. Every warehouse and 3PL in one view, with demand split by location.
Each channel forecast on its own history
A DTC subscription base, an Amazon listing and a 400-door retail rollout do not share a demand curve. Planned as one blended number, all three are wrong. Planster forecasts each channel on its own history and nets the total against one pool of inventory.
Demand split by warehouse
Knowing you need 40,000 units answers how many. Planster splits demand across your warehouses and 3PLs, so it also answers where to send them.
Every warehouse and 3PL in one view
Unlimited warehouses and 3PLs, read from one screen instead of one portal per provider, with no per-location pricing.
What the agent does with multi-channel
Every night
The overnight run covers every channel, not just the loud one. A stockout building on Amazon while DTC looks healthy is on the morning list as its own item.
What it can’t do
It cannot move inventory between warehouses or reallocate stock across channels. It tells you the split is wrong; the transfer is yours.
Example: healthy in total, short in one warehouse
Take a beverage brand that reads inventory as one number: eleven weeks of cover. Its East Coast 3PL has two. The blended view averages a surplus in one warehouse against a shortfall in another. Split by warehouse, the shortfall shows up in week one as a transfer to make.
How it fits together
Every capability runs on the same demand forecast, so each one makes the others more useful.
See every channel and warehouse in one plan
Connect your carts, marketplaces, and 3PLs and look at the combined position. Setup takes days.