Overview

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Welcome to Spherecast

Spherecast is an end-to-end demand and supply planning platform. It connects to your ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning system - your company’s system of record for inventory, orders, and sales), builds a digital model of your supply-chain network, forecasts demand, and recommends what to replenish and when. Those recommendations come in three forms, matching the three ways you get product where it needs to be:

• Purchase orders (POs) - buy from a supplier.
• Work orders (WOs) - manufacture a finished good from its components.
• Transfer orders (TOs) - move stock between your own warehouses.

The goal is simple: keep the right amount of the right product in the right place, without tying up cash in overstock or getting caught short.

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Who it’s for

External suppliers can be given a restricted view - they see only their own supply plan and the product groups you share with them, nothing else.

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What you can do in Spherecast

• See your inventory health at a glance and jump straight to what needs action.
• Build and refine a demand forecast, from a top-down goal down to a final agreed number.
• Turn that forecast into a time-phased supply plan with order recommendations.
• Review, approve, and send purchase, work, and transfer orders to your ERP.
• Model what-if scenarios safely, before committing to a plan.
• Report on service levels, inventory value, cash needs, and supplier spend.

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How the app is organized

A quick tour of the main areas - each has its own detailed pages later in this guide:

• Cockpit - your daily home. Top-line KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) plus an Exceptions queue of things that need your attention. Start here every morning. See Cockpit KPIs.
• Demand planning - where the forecast lives: Targets, the Baseline forecast, and the S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) grid where you review and adjust it.
• Supply planning - the time-phased plan and the order recommendations it produces.
• Transactions - your purchase orders, transfer orders, and work orders.
• Views & reports - custom views you save yourself, plus pre-built analytics like the Planning overview.
• Settings - the setup behind it all: products, your supply chain network, integrations, and data alerts.

Alongside these, an Inbox collects your tasks and notifications, and a global search jumps you to any product, order, or page.

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Where to start

New to Spherecast? Take these in order:

1. Quickstart - find your way around and get productive fast.
2. Key concepts - the handful of ideas and terms that make everything else click.

Then see how it comes together in a real workday with the three walkthroughs: Demand planner, Supply planner, and Manager.

Tip: You don’t need to read this guide cover to cover. Skim the Quickstart, then follow the “day in the life” page that matches your role - and come back to the User Guide for the details when you need them.