Plan purchases and production against live demand — not last quarter’s spreadsheet forecast.
Planning that runs off a spreadsheet snapshot is stale before the meeting is over. TrackElan’s material planning nets live demand (open sales orders and forecasts) against live supply (on-hand stock, open POs, open production orders) to generate purchase and production recommendations that reflect what is actually happening right now.
Because the planning engine reads the same transactional data that sales, purchasing, and production are creating in real time, planners are not reconciling three exports before they can trust a number.
Plan against live data instead of a weekly spreadsheet export
Cut both stockouts and excess inventory with netted, not guessed, requirements
Convert planning recommendations straight into requisitions — no re-entry
Give planners exception-based work instead of scanning every line by hand
Directional estimates based on typical mid-market rollouts. TrackElan cost index is normalized to 1.0; SAP/Oracle figures reflect license, implementation-partner, and BI add-on costs common at this deployment size.
| Capability | TrackElan | SAP | Oracle | Spreadsheets / Legacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native supply chain management in the base license | Extra module/SKU | Extra module/SKU | ||
| Reporting & pivots included | Separate BI license | Separate BI license | Manual only | |
| Typical go-live | 2–4 weeks | 9–12+ months | 8–10+ months | N/A |
| Implementation partner required | ||||
| Data stays reconciled automatically |