AI serving planning and logistics

Beyond market trends, rigorous inventory and capacity management remains the very foundation of profitability for manufacturers and distributors. When replenishment decisions rely on complex spreadsheets and fragmented processes, costs skyrocket and opportunities are lost.
This is exactly where Pawa comes in. Our cloud platform connects your sales, inventory, and supply chain data to provide complete visibility and precise recommendations.

The result: faster, more reliable, and easier-to-execute decisions that turn logistics and planning into a true competitive advantage.

Concrete cases of transformation

Beyond theory, the impact of AI is measured in real-world projects where data complexity and volume far exceed what teams could manage manually. Here are a few examples of how Pawa transforms planning and logistics management:

• Forecasting more than 44,000 products across 14 segments and 46 warehouses over 12 months, representing over 340 million intersections per year. With Pawa, one team moved beyond Excel to avoid being slowed down in its hypergrowth. Along with greater agility, the organization improved forecast accuracy.
• Continuously integrating S&OP in a multi-channel environment with national distribution, managing promotions, product launches, and end-of-life items. This implementation equipped the team to achieve one of the highest forecast accuracy rates in its industry.
• Automating forecast generation and purchase suggestions for thousands of products, taking supplier lead times into account and consolidating shipments. This transformation delivered significant efficiency gains in replenishment and inventory management.
• Establishing a continuous demand planning process, updating forecasts for thousands of products sold through multiple retailers, while integrating promotions and launches. This approach fosters rapid adaptation to market fluctuations and stronger collaboration between planning, sales, and operations.
• Improving forecast accuracy in under two months in a logistics environment with high daily variability. Pawa’s rapid deployment enabled better operational capacity management while factoring in exceptional events, a key element to ensure fluidity and performance in a high-volume sector.

These examples demonstrate that with Pawa, it is possible to scale without losing reliability, while freeing teams from repetitive manual tasks.

AI, innovation, and opportunities

At Pawa, AI is a lever that transforms planning. Rooted in the science of forecasting and powered by over 20 years of expertise in S&OP and sales analytics, it paves the way for faster, fairer, and more collaborative decisions.

Concretely, this translates into:

• Self-learning algorithms that integrate seasonality, promotions, and product life cycles.
• Comparative scenarios to test different hypotheses (growth, shortages, price changes).
• Intelligent assistants (e.g. Pawa IQ), designed to deliver contextualized, understandable, and directly actionable insights.
• Predictive AI to analyze patterns, anticipate shortages, and prevent overstocking.
• An extensible software architecture designed to easily accommodate specialized AI agents as plugins, while simplifying integration with external systems (ERP, POS data portals, and others).

This approach allows organizations to transform demand planning and inventory management into a strategic lever: less time wasted in spreadsheets, more informed decisions, and greater resilience against market volatility.

The impact on S&OP

A well-structured Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process is the backbone of logistical and financial performance. When supported by modern tools like Pawa, it goes beyond aligning teams: it becomes a tangible driver of growth and cost reduction.

Industry benchmarks confirm the benefits of a structured approach:

• +23% margin
• +30% service level
• +30% forecast accuracy
• –15% inventory

These results prove that a disciplined, well-equipped S&OP process translates not only into operational gains but also into lasting competitive advantage.

Seamless integration: removing a common barrier

A frequent obstacle to planning projects is the complexity of integration with existing systems. Pawa has designed an approach that removes this barrier thanks to:

• Preconfigured plug-and-play connectors for systems like Zoho, QuickBooks Online, and Microsoft Business Central.
• A flexible API Loader to connect SAP, Sage, JD Edwards, SQL DataMarts, and other ERP systems.
• Active integrations with major retailers and data portals: Jean Coutu, Metro, Sobeys, Costco, Canadian Tire, Amazon and more...

The result: rapid deployment, often within weeks, delivering value without delay.

Conclusion

In a market where margins are tightening and demand is increasingly volatile, mastering inventory and capacity is not a luxury, but a condition for survival. This is the true power of AI applied to logistics: turning complex, risky decisions into simple, fast, and well-informed choices.

With Pawa, organizations gain a solution that combines methodological rigor, technological innovation, and seamless integration with existing systems. By placing inventory management at the heart of performance, Pawa helps manufacturers and distributors transform their S&OP into a true engine of growth and lasting profitability.