Northwind forecasts demand for every SKU at every location, checks it against each supplier's real lead time, and drafts the purchase order for a buyer to approve. Your reorder spreadsheet can retire.
Product screenshot: the Northwind reorder queue, showing fill rate of 98.4 percent, seven SKUs at stockout risk, a demand chart with a six-week forecast, and a drafted purchase order awaiting approval.
How it works
Northwind is not a dashboard you check. It is a short list of decisions waiting for a buyer, with the arithmetic already done: forecast, safety stock, lead time, case pack, supplier minimum.
“We used to rebuild the reorder sheet every Monday. Now Omar approves about 30 POs from the aisle before his first coffee and spends the rest of the week on suppliers.”
Yesterday's sales, receipts and transfers land from your ERP. Every SKU-location pair gets a new 26-week forecast with a confidence band.
Items are sorted by days of cover against real supplier lead time. Seven SKUs need a call this week; the other 4,193 do not show up.
Quantities are already rounded to case packs and supplier minimums. Edit a line, or approve all four POs in one pass.
Approved orders sync back to your ERP and go to the supplier by email or EDI 850. Receipts close the loop and tune the next forecast.
Each one is a reason a buyer overrides the sheet by hand. Northwind handles them in the model instead.
Forecasting
Northwind models every SKU at every location separately, then layers planned promotions, price changes and holiday weeks on top. A buy-one-get-one in week 42 shows up as demand in week 42, not as a surprise stockout in week 43.
We time every receipt against its PO, so reorder points use the 9 days a supplier actually takes.
When one warehouse is short and another is sitting on 80 days of cover, Northwind suggests a transfer first. Customers move about 11% of reorder volume this way.
Sales, receipts and on-hand come in nightly or in real time. Approved POs go back out to your ERP or straight to the supplier.
Invite your whole ops team. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial on your own data.
One buyer, a couple of warehouses.
Billed $3,000 a year — you save $600
Ops teams replacing the reorder spreadsheet.
Billed $7,800 a year — you save $1,560
Multi-region networks with EDI suppliers.
Billed $18,000 a year — you save $3,600
Over 50,000 SKUs or a 3PL with client-level billing? Talk to us about a custom plan.
Something else? Our planning team answers at ops@northwind.example
Export 13 weeks of sales and on-hand. Within two business days we send back a forecast and the reorder list Northwind would have drafted.