Spherecast

Spherecast's pitch is narrower and sharper than most planning software: stop planning, start executing. The product does four things and does them in one place. First, planning: it builds an AI baseline demand forecast and lets sales, finance, marketing, and ops override it in a single consensus view, so you get one forecast and one truth instead of four spreadsheet versions. Second, inventory and ordering: it projects what you'll need by SKU, location, and raw material — purchases, transfers, co-man production — weeks ahead, and auto-generates the optimal actions. Third, exception handling: AI agents read every supplier and co-man update, flag issues, and recommend how to respond, which is the part that actually removes manual data entry, since approved updates flow straight into the ERP. Fourth, simulation: you can ask any what-if in plain English and model demand drops, promotion spikes, or a co-man delay in seconds; add a new warehouse or co-man as a node and Spherecast re-optimizes flows across the dependency graph. The trust design is a genuine differentiator — every recommendation carries its 'why' and needs one-click approval, and each forecast method is explained in the app, which is what makes operations leaders willing to hand over execution. Client quotes from HOLY, prohealth, and mammaly consistently point at the same thing: hours of planning collapsing into minutes and a full supply plan generated across warehouses, constraints, and co-mans. The honest constraints are two. Spherecast needs structured data — an existing ERP or data warehouse — so brands still running off raw spreadsheets with no system of record will struggle to start. And the focus is omnichannel CPG; if you're in heavy manufacturing, services, or have a simple single-channel supply chain, the multi-echelon, co-man-heavy model is more machinery than you need. Setup is described as two to three weeks after a sandbox run, and onboarding begins with a call rather than a pure self-serve flow, which is normal for a system that touches your ERP. If you want a pure visualization layer and no execution, this is the wrong tool. If you want the planning to actually place the orders, it's built for exactly that.