Turn Planning into
Operational Excellence
Purpose-built for the wood, pulp, paper, and packaging industry - improving forecast accuracy, inventory, production, and supply planning.
Translate Different Planning Needs into One Coordinated Plan
A converter plans next week's customer orders. A paper mill plans next month's production campaigns. A pulp mill balances global commodity markets. Integrated producers must coordinate all three - often across multiple sites, planning horizons, and ERP systems.
Quantics brings these planning needs together:
- Plan locally - around each site's specific horizons and constraints.
- Coordinate across the enterprise - connect demand, inventory, and production around one consistent signal.
- Gain one enterprise-wide view - while giving each site the flexibility it needs.
At the core, an AI-driven forecasting and planning engine creates a single, trusted forecast that connects planning decisions across the business.
Built Around Your Business
Start where the value is clearest and expand as your planning needs grow.
- Start with what matters most: Improve demand forecasting first, then add inventory and production planning as needed.
- Invest on your terms: Choose the licensing model that fits your strategy and adapt as priorities evolve.
- Keep what already works: Add better planning alongside SAP, Oracle, Infor, or local ERP systems.
- Connect the value chain without forcing uniformity: Give sites the flexibility to plan locally while maintaining group-wide visibility.
- See results sooner: Get up and running in weeks, not quarters.
Faster value, less disruption, and a planning platform that grows with your business.
From Forecast to Better Performance.
Improve service, working capital, and operational efficiency with smarter planning.
Demand Forecasting & Planning
Turn fragmented demand into one trusted planning signal.
Demand behaves differently across the value chain. Packaging may follow industrial activity, promotions, or customer production cycles, while tissue is more stable and pulp responds to global commodity markets. Your teams need to capture these different demand patterns while creating one consistent plan the business can act on.
Quantics Demand Forecasting & Planning brings data, customer inputs, and planner knowledge together to create a trusted demand plan across products, sites, and business units.
- Improve forecast accuracy across your portfolio - align forecasts from SKUs and grades to plants and business units, with up to 80% relative improvement in forecast accuracy and reduction in bias versus advanced bottom-up approaches.
- Bring commercial and local knowledge into the plan - combine AI forecasts with customer forecasts, framework agreements, call-off schedules, and planner expertise.
- Account for business events - capture promotions, customer wins or losses, and other demand changes while measuring whether adjustments improve the forecast.
- Plan for uncertainty where it matters - use point or probabilistic forecasts to support better inventory and production decisions.
- Connect demand to financial outcomes - translate forecasts into revenue, margin, cost, and budget views and model pricing scenarios.
Inventory Management
Optimize inventory for each stage of the value chain.
Inventory requirements vary significantly across pulp, paper, and packaging. Mills balance parent-roll inventory against utilization, converters manage customer-specific products and obsolescence risk, while integrated producers coordinate inventory across multiple production stages. Your teams need to protect availability without tying up unnecessary working capital.
Quantics Inventory Management connects demand directly to replenishment and buffer decisions, helping each operation apply the right inventory strategy while working from one consistent demand signal.
- Keep the right inventory for the demand ahead - use point forecasts for predictable demand or probabilistic forecasts where uncertainty matters, with the system translating either into replenishment recommendations and optimized safety stock.
- Choose the policy that works best - compare conventional inventory approaches and DDMRP before changing established processes.
- Keep inventory policies aligned with reality - let AI continuously adjust recommended parameters as volatility, lead times, and service-level targets change.
- Plan within real operational constraints - incorporate warehouse, parent-roll, yard, and storage capacity into replenishment decisions.
- Balance service and working capital - improve product availability while avoiding unnecessary inventory investment.
Production Planning
Build production plans that reflect operational reality.
Production planning is about more than capacity. Grade sequencing, fiber availability, uptime, changeovers, and material flow all determine what can actually be produced. Your teams need to turn demand into an executable plan while coordinating production across multiple stages.
Quantics Production Planning connects your demand plan with real production constraints, helping planners evaluate alternatives and identify risks before committing resources.
- Build plans that reflect operational reality - balance demand, capacity, materials, storage, and production constraints in one planning process.
- Prepare for disruptions before they happen - simulate demand changes, supplier disruptions, equipment outages, or major customer orders.
- Spot what puts the plan at risk - identify whether capacity, materials, storage, or production sequencing is limiting execution.
- Coordinate production across the value chain - synchronize pulp, paper, and downstream converting instead of planning each stage independently.
Cockpit
One view across your entire manufacturing network.
Acquisitions often leave pulp, paper, and packaging groups working across different ERP systems, planning processes, and reporting standards. Your teams need group-wide visibility without taking away the flexibility individual sites need.
Quantics Cockpit creates a shared planning environment, helping teams see where attention is needed and understand the impact across the business.
- See where attention is needed - monitor planning performance and operational exceptions across your manufacturing network.
- Compare performance consistently - standardize planning KPIs while preserving local operational flexibility.
- Understand the business impact of disruptions - connect outages and other operational deviations directly to their financial impact.
- Keep teams aligned - give planners, operations, and executives a shared view of demand, inventory, and production.
- Go from overview to root cause - drill from group-level performance into individual mills, plants, grades, or planning exceptions.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about our solutions and how they benefit your operations.
Quantics adds best-in-class forecasting and planning capabilities to enable better business decisions, while your ERP remains the system of record and manages operational execution. Its modular architecture also allows you to enhance or replace individual planning capabilities - such as demand forecasting and planning - without changing your existing ERP landscape or specialized planning solution.
Most customers start with Demand Forecasting & Planning because the forecast provides the central planning signal for downstream processes. It is also our most widely used module. As you expand your planning capabilities, Inventory Management and Production Planning build on the same forecas
Yes. Quantics is designed for multi-stage manufacturing networks. Grade-level mill forecasts and SKU-level converter forecasts are reconciled into one planning process, regardless of the underlying ERP system.
Yes. Customer forecasts, call-offs and framework agreements can be directly integrated into the solution, allowing planners to consider these commitments alongside opening days as well as external market signals. AI forecasting then models the underlying demand pattern while planners enrich the forecast with customer-specific knowledge, promotions and commercial events. Together, they provide significantly more reliable planning inputs than either approach alone.
Absolutely. New sites can begin with manual imports while integration is phased in, allowing them to contribute to enterprise planning immediately without waiting for full ERP harmonization.
Yes. While it's possible to start with a single mill or converting plant, we generally recommend starting with one or more business units. Quantics' hierarchical model learns across different business levels, enabling it to capture broader operational patterns and deliver the best possible results. That said, if your preference is to begin with a single mill or converting plant, the platform fully supports that approach and can be expanded over time as needed.
Your forecasts, policies, and configuration carry forward - switching deployment models is a commercial and infrastructure change, not a replanning exercise. This is part of why customers can start small with confidence: the deployment model is a decision you can revisit, not one you're locked into from day one.
Planners need to understand why a plan changes. Quantics therefore combines AI-based forecasts and recommendations with the knowledge of your teams. Manual adjustments remain possible, and their impact can be measured. This keeps AI from becoming a black box and helps planners make better, more transparent decisions.
Success should not be measured by forecast accuracy alone. What matters is whether better planning leads to business outcomes - such as higher service levels, lower safety stock, reduced working capital, fewer short-term production changes, or better use of storage and production capacity. Quantics therefore connects planning KPIs with operational and financial impact.
Part of the Quantics founding team has worked directly in the pulp, paper & packaging industry, helping manufacturers optimize their operations. Combined with development alongside leading industry players, this experience has shaped Quantics around the sector's specific planning needs. Its modular design, flexible integrations, and configuration options allow the solution to adapt to your business and operations.
Yes. Across numerous projects with manufacturing companies that already have sophisticated forecasting solutions in place, Quantics Forecasting has consistently delivered further improvements. At the most detailed demand forecasting unit (DFU) level, it has achieved higher forecast accuracy, while at aggregated planning levels, it has delivered relative forecast accuracy improvements of up to 70–80% compared with customers' existing forecasting solutions, together with significantly lower forecast bias. These improvements provide substantial value for tactical and operational planning decisions, including capacity planning and financial planning.
Yes. Quantics is designed for manufacturers that sell exclusively B2B or in a mix of B2B and B2C. The platform offers unique functions for this environment - including special planning features for sales representatives, seamless integration of framework agreements, and the ability to incorporate customer forecasts. These capabilities ensure optimal and faster planning across different customer structures and markets.
With the Quantics External Data Hub, you can extend planning with macroeconomic data, commodity prices, holidays, and industry-specific inputs such as kraft pulp for paper industry. Any other external or internal data you have already can also be integrated seamlessly.