Best Demand Planning Software in 2026

Kinaxis is a supply chain planning company founded and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. It was founded in June 1984 as Cadence Computer Corporation, launched an in-memory planning engine in 1986, was renamed Kinaxis in 2005, released its first cloud platform the same year and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (KXS) in June 2014. Its current platform, Maestro, is described as an AI-infused, end-to-end supply chain platform.

Maestro's distinguishing approach is concurrent planning: demand, supply, inventory and capacity plans run on one in-memory data model, so a change in the forecast propagates immediately and planners can compare scenarios. Kinaxis added AI and machine-learning applications from 2018 and joined planning with execution in 2022. It says it was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions for process and discrete industries.

Kinaxis reported 2025 revenue of US$548.0 million, up 13%, SaaS revenue of US$362.4 million, up 17%, and year-end ARR of US$433 million, up 20%, with 2026 revenue guidance of US$620–635 million. Razat Gaurav is chief executive. Pricing is quote-based and projects are substantial, making Maestro better suited to large manufacturers than to small distributors.

o9 Solutions is an enterprise planning software company co-founded by Sanjiv Sidhu, a board member, and Chakri Gottemukkala, its executive chairman and chief executive. o9 has offices in the Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania and India and serves automotive, consumer products, energy and resources, high tech, industrial manufacturing, life sciences, retail, telecoms and wholesale distribution customers, in more than 30 industries in total.

The o9 platform, the o9 Enterprise Brain, uses what the company calls neurosymbolic AI to connect enterprise knowledge with AI reasoning for demand planning and coordinated action. Its applications cover demand planning and sensing, supply planning, integrated business planning, revenue management, price optimisation and procurement on one graph-based data model, so commercial and financial plans can be reconciled with supply.

o9 is typically selected by large consumer-goods, industrial and retail companies replacing older planning suites. It does not publish prices, customer counts or financial results, and implementations require significant data-modelling work by o9 or partners.

Blue Yonder is a supply chain software company owned by Panasonic. Panasonic bought a 20% stake in July 2020 and completed the purchase of the remaining 80% in September 2021, after antitrust and regulatory approvals. Blue Yonder says it has close to 40 years of customer engagements, more than 3,000 customers and customers in 81 countries and territories; Duncan Angove is chief executive.

The company's AI-driven platform covers supply chain planning, including demand planning, along with warehouse management, transportation management, order management and returns, on a common data cloud, with a multi-enterprise network for collaboration with suppliers and partners. Blue Yonder markets predictive, generative and agentic AI and has launched what it calls Cognitive Solutions. Published customer examples include DHL, Carlsberg and Walgreens.

Blue Yonder's breadth across planning and execution is unusual and particularly strong in retail and consumer goods, where demand forecasting at store and channel level feeds replenishment and fulfilment. Prices are quote-based, and customers on older on-premises versions face migration projects to the cloud platform.

SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) is SAP's cloud supply chain planning solution. It integrates demand, supply, inventory and sales and operations planning, and it integrates with SAP ERP and third-party systems. SAP says more than 1,000 companies use SAP IBP, ranging from multinationals to medium-sized enterprises in manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, automotive and aerospace.

For demand planning, SAP IBP offers AI-powered algorithms, statistical modelling, demand sensing and automated outlier correction in sales history. Supply planning models multi-level bills of materials across locations, inventory optimisation balances carrying costs, stockouts and service levels, and the S&OP process combines financial and operational planning with simulations of demand and supply changes. SAP now markets IBP alongside AI agents and a unified platform that connects sales, demand, inventory, supply and production; published users include SMA Solar, BYK and Microsoft.

SAP IBP is the default shortlist candidate for SAP ERP customers because of native integration. Non-SAP companies may find specialist suites quicker to deploy, and SAP does not publish IBP prices.

RELEX Solutions was founded in Finland in 2005 by three supply chain scientists, Mikko Kärkkäinen, Johanna Småros and Michael Falck, to reduce waste in the consumer goods value chain. The company now has more than 2,300 employees in 21 countries and says it is trusted by about 700 customers globally.

RELEX describes its product as an AI platform for planning and decision-making across demand, inventory, merchandising, pricing and supply for retailers, manufacturers and wholesalers. Its demand forecasting works at granular store and product level and feeds automated replenishment, allocation, space and assortment planning, promotion planning, and price and markdown optimisation, so a forecast change flows through to orders and shelf decisions. The company emphasises reduced food waste and fresh-goods forecasting, a key use case for grocery customers.

RELEX is strongest in grocery, convenience and specialty retail and in consumer-goods manufacturers that collaborate with retailers. Manufacturers with complex production constraints may need a separate supply planning tool. Pricing is quote-based.

ToolsGroup was founded in Boston in 1993 by Joseph Shamir and Eugenio Cornacchia on the premise that supply chains are probabilistic and planning should be too. The company says it built the first service-driven supply chain planning software and the first multi-echelon inventory optimisation. It reports more than 300 enterprise customers.

ToolsGroup's planning software generates probabilistic demand forecasts, sets inventory targets to achieve chosen service levels across multi-echelon networks, and supports replenishment and retail planning. The company cites an industrial manufacturer managing 1.4 million SKU-market combinations across 42 locations and 17 ERP systems with a global team of two, and a customer that cut spare-parts stock by 30% while raising service levels from 87% to 97% over three years; these are vendor-reported results. ToolsGroup says it was recognised in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions: Discrete Industries.

The probabilistic approach suits long-tail, intermittent and service-parts demand. ToolsGroup is less known for S&OP and finance integration than the end-to-end suites, and it does not publish prices.

Logility is a supply chain planning vendor with more than 50 years in business and more than 800 customers. It now operates as an Aptean company brand. Its suite spans demand planning, inventory optimisation, supply planning, scenario planning, merchandise planning, product lifecycle management, supplier management, network optimisation and manufacturing execution.

For demand planning, Logility offers DemandAI+ and demand sensing, complemented by InventoryAI+, multi-echelon inventory optimisation and automated inventory policies; S&OP and sales and operations execution (S&OE) are delivered through a Decision Command Center. Logility's published customer examples include Tillamook County Creamery Association, which it says cut finished-goods inventory by 75%, Reynolds Consumer Products with a 20% improvement in forecast accuracy and Ferguson with a 70% improvement; these are vendor-reported outcomes.

Logility serves consumer goods, food and beverage, apparel and industrial companies in the mid-market and lower enterprise segments. Its integration into Aptean, a group of ERP and industry software businesses, may bring closer ERP ties; pricing is not published.

Anaplan is a planning platform company that has operated since 2006 and says more than two million models have been deployed on its platform. It is best known for financial planning and analysis, sales performance management and workforce planning, but also sells supply chain applications, including demand planning, supply planning and S&OP, on the same multidimensional modelling engine.

Anaplan's distinguishing feature is its modelling flexibility: planners build models in a spreadsheet-like but centrally governed environment, linking demand forecasts to revenue, margin and workforce plans. The company emphasises AI at the core of the platform and says it achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification for responsible AI governance. Delivery is typically through a global partner network.

Anaplan suits finance-led organisations that want demand plans tightly connected to financial plans, or that run integrated business planning across many functions. Its supply chain optimisation algorithms are less specialised than those of dedicated planning vendors, so companies with complex inventory networks often pair it with a specialist tool. Pricing is quote-based.

Slimstock is a European supply chain planning company that has worked on inventory and demand planning for more than 30 years. It reports more than 1,700 customers, activity in 75 countries and offices in 28 countries. Its main product is Slim4, a forecasting and inventory optimisation platform, and the company also offers sales and operations planning and price management software.

Slim4 is aimed at wholesalers, retailers and manufacturers that need item-level forecasting, safety-stock setting and replenishment proposals connected to their ERP. Recent customer announcements include sports-equipment group Oberalp, which chose Slim4 to gain an overview of demand and stock as part of its digital transformation. Slimstock reports ISO 27001:2022 certification audited by DNV and NIS2 supply-chain certification at SC30 level, and a partnership with Argon & Co Middle East to serve the Gulf region.

Slimstock's local offices provide implementation in many languages, an advantage for European mid-market companies. It is less focused on complex production constraint planning than end-to-end suites, and pricing is not published.

John Galt Solutions is a US supply chain planning software company whose Atlas Planning Platform is described as an AI supply chain planning platform built on the company's 30 years of supply chain expertise. Atlas is delivered as SaaS and covers demand planning, inventory optimisation, supply planning, S&OP and order-to-shipment processes.

John Galt positions Atlas on usability and implementation speed. One customer quoted on its site says implementation was completed in three months and replaced multiple Excel data sources with a single source of data, and the company cites Mars, which used Atlas to digitise planning across 60 countries with a consistent process in each market. The vendor also promotes a 2026 Enterprise Supply Chain Planning Value Matrix in which it says Atlas leads on usability.

Atlas is a mid-market and lower-enterprise option for consumer-goods, food and industrial companies that want more than ERP forecasting without a multi-year programme. It is a smaller vendor than Kinaxis or o9, and prices are quote-based.

Lokad is a supply chain optimisation company that has worked on probabilistic forecasting and ROI-oriented decision-making since 2008. It uses differentiable programming and a team of supply chain scientists who build and maintain each client's optimisation logic, rather than selling a configurable planning package. Lokad says it has grown by an average of 50% a year, financed by customer revenue after initial funding from family and a few business angels, without further investors.

Instead of producing a single forecast that planners then adjust, Lokad generates probabilistic forecasts of demand and lead times and converts them directly into prioritised purchase, production or allocation decisions ranked by expected financial return. Its published case studies include work for a US$1 billion retailer on Black Friday planning. The approach suits aerospace maintenance, spare parts, fashion and retail businesses with uncertain, intermittent demand.

Lokad's service-heavy model means clients depend on its scientists for model changes, and it does not offer the planner-facing collaboration workflows of mainstream S&OP software. Fees are agreed per engagement.

Netstock sells cloud demand and inventory planning software for small and mid-sized distributors, wholesalers and manufacturers. The product connects to the customer's ERP and automatically converts raw ERP data into forecasts, inventory recommendations and order proposals, with AI capabilities and an inventory health assessment.

Netstock is unusual in publishing a starting price: subscription cost depends on the product and bundle chosen and starts at US$900 per month, sold as annual subscriptions. It says implementation typically takes 6 to 10 weeks depending on data complexity, business size and the ERP being integrated, and includes training and a dedicated team. The vendor claims its software usually pays for itself within weeks; that is a vendor statement. Netstock publishes an annual Supply Chain Planning Benchmark Report and reports ISO 27001 security certification.

Netstock is designed for companies whose ERP forecasting is too basic but who do not need enterprise S&OP or production scheduling. Its depth in multi-echelon and constraint-based planning is limited compared with enterprise suites.

Streamline is a supply chain planning product from GMDH, marketed as autonomous supply chain planning software for demand forecasting, inventory optimisation and replenishment. It is aimed at mid-sized distributors, retailers and manufacturers moving from spreadsheets or ERP reports to dedicated planning.

Streamline connects to ERP and accounting systems through API or ODBC connections, and GMDH claims ten times faster implementation than conventional projects. Its site cites customer outcomes such as a furniture brand cutting overstock by US$56,000 a month and pharmaceutical companies reducing inventory by 40–50%; these are vendor-reported figures. Pricing is customised after a discussion of the customer's needs rather than published.

Streamline is an accessible step up from spreadsheet planning with a focus on ease of deployment. It lacks the scenario modelling, multi-echelon optimisation and enterprise S&OP depth of the larger platforms in this list, and its customer outcome claims have not been independently verified.