Simplify planning. Align your team. Scale with confidence.

We partner with product driven brands to simplify planning processes, align cross functional teams, and build scalable, trusted decision frameworks that optimize the relationship between demand, inventory, and finance.Our approach aligns commercial goals, supply chain capabilities, and financial priorities through a structured framework that connects strategic intent with day to day execution.The result is a disciplined cycle that scales with the business and enables faster, more aligned decision making at every level.

What’s going on in your company?

  • Are you growing faster than your planning processes can maintain?

  • Is your sales or demand forecast disconnected from operational reality?

  • Are supply and inventory decisions misaligned with demand signals?

  • Is Finance setting targets that your current planning structure can’t support?

  • Is your inventory efficiency constraining your bottom-line growth?

  • Are your operational constraints slowing down your top-line growth?

  • Do you have an AI enabled planning strategy?

These are all normal occurrences in growing businesses. We help you manage and maintain the decision-making frameworks that turn perceived friction points into opportunities for value creation.

Partners

We support product driven brands across consumer brands, retail, ecommerce, and manufacturing. Our clients are typically between $50M and $500M in revenue, or post-Series B and preparing to scale operations more systematically. Many are expanding product lines, entering new markets, or finding that their current planning structure can’t keep up with growth.

Services

We help growth-focused brands solve real planning problems across process, data, systems, and teams.Whether you're standing up S&OP for the first time, aligning supply and demand, connecting planning to your P&L, or exploring how AI fits in, we meet you where you are. Our services are designed to bring structure to complexity, build alignment across functions, and create decision frameworks that scale with your business.

About SMC

Brandon Nelson, CPF
Director, S&OP & Planning TransformationI bring two decades of experience leading supply chain and planning transformation across the footwear, apparel and consumer goods industries. I've worked with global brands like Converse, Nike, Adidas and Reebok to evolve their end-to-end supply chains, improving demand planning, inventory management and S&OP to unlock growth and drive enterprise value.My experience spans the full supply chain, from upstream planning to downstream execution. Whether leading global IBP transformations or solving for regional planning gaps, I focus on aligning people, process and data to deliver meaningful results. I'm also a Licensed Customs Broker, adding depth to the cross-border and operational challenges many growing brands face.

Contact Us

If you’re interested in working together, have a question, or just need to brainstorm your planning challenges, we’re here for it.Reach out to start a conversation. No pressure, no pitch, just a practical discussion about where you are and where you want to go.

S&OP/ IBP Process Design

Launch or evolve your cross-functional planning process.We help you build or mature your Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) or Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process with the right cadence, governance, and decision logic to drive alignment across commercial, supply chain, and finance functions.Our approach defines clear roles and responsibilities, establishes accountability, and builds the operating model your business needs to scale. We use proven frameworks to bring structure to who decides, who contributes, and who owns each part of the process.

Outcome

  • Planning calendar and integrated meeting structure

  • Executive S&OP and pre-meeting design

  • Defined roles and responsibilities

  • Accountability model (RACI / DCA)

  • Escalation paths and governance

  • KPI alignment across functions

Planning Visibility & Data Enablement

Build trust in your data—and clarity in your decisions.We help organizations define, structure, and activate the data and reporting needed to support confident planning. When teams don’t trust the numbers or are working from disconnected reports, decisions slow down—or happen in isolation. We bring structure to how planning data is governed, visualized, and used across demand, inventory, and supply functions.Whether Excel is your primary planning tool or you’ve made capital investments in platforms like SAP IBP, Blue Yonder, Logility, Anaplan, or o9, we work with you to establish the visibility and common language needed to enable scalable planning maturity.

Outcome

  • Defined and documented planning KPIs (e.g., Forecast Value Add, MAPE, bias, service levels, inventory turns)

  • Centralized data definitions and glossary

  • Certified planning dashboards or reporting views

  • Visibility frameworks by time horizon (S&OE, S&OP, IBP)

  • Source-of-truth alignment across tools and functions

  • Data readiness assessments for planning system deployments

  • Cross-functional understanding of inputs, assumptions, and drivers

  • Simplified reporting that supports faster decision cycles

Demand & Supply Alignment

Bring forecasting, inventory, and operations into sync.We help organizations align their demand and supply planning processes to reduce disconnects, improve responsiveness, and build trust across functions. Whether you're struggling with forecast accuracy, reactive planning, or fragmented ownership, we focus on building a scalable demand forecasting process that connects seamlessly with inventory and supply workflows.
Our work integrates forecast enrichment, inventory strategy, and process improvement—bringing structure to planning cadences and enabling more effective collaboration across commercial, supply chain, and finance teams. We refine roles, streamline inputs, and implement shared frameworks that enhance visibility and accountability across the plan.

Outcome

  • Scalable, repeatable demand forecasting process

  • Forecast enrichment and consensus-building models

  • Streamlined planning cadences for demand and supply

  • Clear roles, inputs, and handoffs across planning functions

  • Inventory policy and service level alignment

  • Root cause frameworks for demand-supply mismatches

  • Identified process gaps and prioritized improvement roadmap

Finance & Planning Integration

Connect your financial goals with operational reality.We help bridge the gap between finance, supply chain, and commercial planning by creating integrated decision frameworks that align volume and value. When financial targets are set in isolation from operational constraints, it creates tension and missed expectations. We help resolve that by building structured, transparent ways to reconcile financial, demand, supply, and inventory plans.Our work focuses on enabling end-to-end visibility across functions, establishing shared assumptions, and connecting planning activities to financial outcomes. We recognize that P&L decisions are often built on top of demand and inventory assumptions—so we work to ensure those assumptions are visible, validated, and aligned across the business.

Outcome

  • Volume-to-value planning model

  • Integrated financial and operational planning rhythm

  • Aligned demand, supply, and financial targets

  • Reconciliation process for forecast gaps and planning scenarios

  • Visibility into constrained vs. unconstrained plans

  • KPI structure that links financial and operational goals

  • Shared planning assumptions across Finance, Demand, and Supply

  • Multi-year strategic plan connected to the month-over-month planning cycle

  • P&L visibility tied to demand and inventory drivers

Operating Model & Change Support

Make planning work stick—across people, process, and rhythm.We help companies embed planning into the rhythm of the business by building operating models that are clear, accountable, and sustainable. Whether you’re launching a new S&OP process, enabling a planning platform, or transforming your org’s ways of working, we ensure the change takes root.
Our support goes beyond documentation. We work alongside leaders to build alignment, create role clarity, and drive adoption—through structured governance, behavioral reinforcement, and lightweight change management strategies that actually work.

Outcome

  • Planning operating model (process, org, cadence)

  • Functional ownership and accountability structure

  • RACI/DCA mapping across teams and decision types

  • Governance and escalation structure

  • Change impact assessment and adoption plan

  • Training paths and onboarding resources

  • Embedded planning behaviors supported by rituals and rhythm

  • Ongoing support for early-stage maturity or continuous improvement

AI Strategy and Enablement Roadmap

Define practical use cases and build a path to value.We help planning and supply chain teams take a grounded approach to AI, focused on business value, not buzzwords. Whether you're exploring AI forecasting pilots, evaluating vendor tools, or unsure where to start, we help you define achievable use cases and build a realistic roadmap for adoption.
Our approach connects AI opportunities to your existing planning challenges, prioritizes quick wins, and ensures your data, people, and processes are ready to support responsible, scalable AI use.

Outcome

  • Clear business cases for AI in demand, inventory, or S&OP/IBP

  • Prioritized opportunities linked to measurable outcomes

  • Adoption roadmap with defined phases and milestones

  • Readiness assessment for data, tools, and team capabilities

  • Guidance on vendor tools, pilots, and integration

  • Strategies for trust, transparency, and change management

Thank You

Thanks for reaching out. We’ll be in touch shortly, usually within one business day. Looking forward to supporting you in your planning journey.