Planning cost check
What is disconnected planning costing you?
Spreadsheets, late shortages, urgent orders and excess stock all cost money. Put in your own figures to see what they add up to, and what connected planning could give back.
Why put a number on it
The cost of disconnected planning is real. It's just spread out.
A planner spending hours a week updating spreadsheets. A production team waiting on a missing part. Urgent freight. Stock on the shelf that nobody needs. A late delivery. None of these appears as one line in the accounts, which is exactly why it's easy to underestimate.
The calculator below uses your own figures, not generic improvement percentages, because the strongest business case is built on your numbers.
MaXXflow Planning Cost Calculator
It starts on a typical growing manufacturer. Change any figure to match your own operation; rough numbers are fine.
What it counts
Seven costs most manufacturers recognize
Manual planning time
Hours updating spreadsheets, checking stock and chasing information.
Managers chasing status
Time spent collecting updates instead of acting on them.
Shortages that stop work
Disruption, rescheduling and urgent sourcing each time a part is missing.
Production time lost
Hours lost to jobs that reached the floor before they were ready.
Urgent orders and freight
Premiums paid because a requirement was spotted late.
Carrying excess stock
Storage, handling, obsolescence and the cost of cash tied up on shelves.
BOM errors and rework
Missed items and wrong revisions that cost material, time and delay.
Reading the result
You don't need every problem solved for it to pay back
The calculator assumes connected planning recovers a share of today's cost, and starts cautiously. The point isn't a perfect number. It's seeing which costs are biggest, so you know where to start.
The figures are estimates from your inputs, not a quote or a guarantee. A conversation with one of our specialists can test them against how your operation really runs.
Your next step
Turn your figures into a plan.
Talk to one of our experts and we'll take your numbers further: checked against how your operation really runs, and shaped into a first workflow you can start with.
01
Discovery
We start with how your operation runs today:
- How demand, BOMs, purchasing, inventory and production fit together
- Where information is hard to find or entered twice
- Which handovers create repeated work
- Where uncertainty about materials or priorities affects delivery
You get a clear picture of where planning breaks down.
02
Your numbers, checked
We test the figures from this calculator against your operation:
- Where the cost really sits
- Which problems are frequent and which are occasional
- Conservative assumptions you can defend internally
A business case built on your own numbers, not generic claims.
03
A tailored demonstration
We show MaXXflow working through a demand-to-delivery flow:
- Demand and BOM requirements
- Inventory availability and allocations
- Purchasing requirements and supply risks
- Work-order readiness and capacity constraints
- Dashboards, alerts and AI-assisted insights
You see the workflows that matter to you, not every screen.
04
Your first workflow
Together we agree where to start:
- The priority: shortages, purchasing, production readiness or management visibility
- The essentials to prepare: representative items, BOMs, stock, suppliers and open orders
- Who owns the data and the process decisions
A focused first phase that proves its value early.
05
Proposal and plan
You receive a proposal that confirms:
- Users, locations and workflows
- Integrations, implementation, training and support
- Responsibilities, milestones, testing and the go-live approach
Timing depends on the agreed scope and how ready your data is.
Outcomes
What you'll walk away with
A clear next step, including:
- Where disconnected planning costs you most
- A business case based on your own figures
- A recommended first workflow
- An implementation plan with responsibilities and milestones
Where to go next
Put a number on disconnected planning
Too much of some parts, still short of others
Missing parts and supplier delays
Find the hidden cost of poor planning
