How much time do your planners really spend adding value?

Lumina forecast stock balance and lead time logic flags items in need of attention

If you asked your demand planning team, they might say their job is to forecast, plan, and make informed decisions that drive your supply chain efficiency.

But if you looked closely, how much of their time is actually spent making decisions… versus wrestling with spreadsheet formulas, checking data, and manually updating reports?

In many mid-market consumer goods businesses, a huge chunk of planners’ time is consumed by tasks that don’t add strategic value. Yet the pressure to deliver accurate forecasts never eases.

The consequences?

• Decision-making is delayed.

• Opportunities to optimize inventory or respond to market changes are missed.

• Planners feel frustrated, and talent retention suffers.

This is where Lumina's new AI platform makes a difference.

Lumina is a cloud-based AI platform built to adapt to the unique complexities of every business. It creates bespoke supply chain systems, designed from the ground up, around your exact needs.

The Lumina team recognise that ERPs claim to have modules to cover the areas of demand and supply planning, scheduling etc but which so often fail to gel with the companies unique mode of operation.

Lumina gets around this by designing a bespoke system structure from the ground up, around the business unique value added function. Through inventory forecasts, safety stock and lead time logic, Lumina AI cuts straight to the decisions that matter.

Planners can instantly identify which SKUs need attention, prioritize interventions, and focus on driving outcomes, rather than wrestling with spreadsheets.

Imagine a world where your demand planning team spends most of their time on:

• Intervening on critical SKUs before issues escalate

• Optimizing inventory for high-impact products

• Generating insights that drive business growth

  
  

…instead of manual data wrangling.

With Lumina AI, you get a demand planning platform designed to remove non-value-added work, giving your team the space to make smarter, faster decisions when it counts most.

So, how much time do your planners currently spend on real decision-making versus firefighting spreadsheets?

Let’s shift the balance and put planners back where they belong, at the heart of strategic supply chain decisions.

Curious how much time your team could save and where they should be focusing?

Let’s start a conversation.