AI Demand Planning for CPG Supply Chains | Ceres

Break through the forecast accuracy ceiling that's costing you inventory every season

While commercial teams forecast high to hit targets, Ceres layers hyper-local weather, commodity prices, and 35,000+ market signals to deliver defensible supply chain intelligence.

Predictive Risk Detected Global CPG Distribution Node

Your ERP shows what happened. Your planners know last year's patterns. Neither tells you the season has shifted.

But it's blind to the external signals driving your real demand.

Weather & Climate

Seasonal pattern shifts, precipitation anomalies, and temperature changes that move demand before your internal data does.

Input Cost Volatility

Raw material, packaging, and ingredient cost movements tracked before they reach your sourcing team.

Geopolitics

Mapping disruptions across trade lanes and regional conflicts before they surface in your supplier communication.

Energy & Freight

Oil and logistics cost correlations that flow through into your COGS before your ERP reflects them.

Bridging the Commercial-Supply Gap

Three things your planning team can do with Ceres that they can't do in Excel.

Forecast Reconciliation

Automatically align optimistic sales targets with external market realities and supply constraints. See where commercial and supply chain diverge — before inventory locks in.

Seasonal Signal Monitoring

Early detection of season-shifting anomalies in weather and consumption patterns weeks ahead of time. Know when this season looks different before you're producing for it.

Explainable Outputs

Every forecast comes with a 'why' - linked directly to specific external indicators.

Supply Chain Intelligence Workflows

Over-Forecast Detection

We flag SKU level discrepancies where history doesn't match current market velocity.

When History Misleads

See when weather, commodity, and market signals start to break from the assumptions behind your current plan.

Territory Demand

Test different what-if scenarios to see how external and internal changes could impact demand.

10B+ Signals

Analyze over 10B+ signals that can impact your operations.

Stop guessing your planning needs

See how Ceres works against your planning data, SKUs, and seasonal cycles.