Planning that fits how you plan, and keeps up when the business moves.
For companies that make, buy, move, or sell physical goods, from a brand with a few hundred SKUs to a planning organization running Kinaxis, o9 or SAP IBP.
20%+ INVENTORY REDUCTION · 99%+ IN-STOCK RATE · 75% PLANNING TIME SAVED
Customer-reported, from independent reference calls.
Fit how you actually plan. Keep up when the business changes. Every option you have today does one and not the other, or costs a planning engineering team to do both.
Fits how you plan
Spreadsheets
Yes. You built it around your rules, your exceptions, your planning level.
Legacy planning suites
Rarely. You adapt your process to the module, or you wrap your own logic around it in a sheet.
Build it in-house
Yes, for the first version.
Atomic
Yes. Atomic encodes your rules, exceptions and planning level, and changes when they change, in days.
Keeps up at scale
Spreadsheets
No. Formulas break, one person holds the knowledge, a scenario takes days, and maintaining the tool becomes everyone's second job.
Legacy planning suites
Yes, for what it was configured to do. A constraint change waits for the next cycle or the next change order.
Build it in-house
Only if the engineers stay on it. Every new constraint, engine and integration is a project competing with the roadmap.
Atomic
Yes. The full plan reruns daily at unit level. A scenario compares to the plan of record in seconds.
Shows its work
Spreadsheets
Yes, if you can find the cell.
Legacy planning suites
Often not. Planners are asked to trust the number.
Build it in-house
Depends who wrote it and whether they are still there.
Atomic
Every number traces to the rule and the input that produced it.
What stays
Spreadsheets
Your ERP.
Legacy planning suites
Your ERP, and the suite.
Build it in-house
Your ERP.
Atomic
Your ERP, and your suite if it earns its place. Atomic runs alongside both.
Time to first value
Spreadsheets
Immediate, then it compounds against you.
Legacy planning suites
12 to 24 months.
Build it in-house
Longer than you plan for. One customer went from first call to a live system in about two months after being quoted six months for an internal build.
Atomic
Scope-dependent. About 30 days for the S&OP layer. About three months for a full replenishment network. Four to six months for the full platform.
Where it falls short
Spreadsheets
Anything with constraints: MRP, allocation, long lead times, multi-node.
Legacy planning suites
Long implementations, heavy services, opaque logic.
Build it in-house
The engines, the versioning, the approvals, the scenario compare and the integrations are each a product. Most companies cannot justify the planning engineering team it takes to build and keep them.
Atomic
Younger than the suites. Named public references today are a convenience and essentials store, a meat box subscription business and consumer brands; we show manufacturers and retailers their own planning in Atomic before they commit.
Price basis
Spreadsheets
Free, plus the people maintaining it.
Legacy planning suites
Licenses, consulting and an internal team.
Build it in-house
Engineers and data scientists, for as long as the business changes.
Atomic
Scales with your cost of goods. No per-seat fees. No implementation army.
What buyers said when they compared us
From independent reference calls with Atomic customers, conducted by third parties. Quotes anonymized.
“A breath of fresh air.”
“It's nice to work with a group that is expert in their space and can move fast, versus going through change orders.”
“[Other tools ask planners to] trust it and believe it.”
“[Other vendors were] trying to fit me into a box that was not conducive to how we operate.”
“[They're] in the foxhole with us.”
Your rules, encoded
The model is configured to your business: your planning level, your constraints, your exceptions. Change it in days or weeks when the business changes, not through a six-to-twelve-month reimplementation.
Planner in control
Override any forecast, order or rule at any level. Every change is logged with who, when and why. The routine goes out on your approval rules; the exceptions come to your planner with the reasoning attached.
Daily rerun
The whole plan reruns every night on refreshed ERP data, and on demand. No manual imports.
Scenarios in seconds
Every run is a saved version. Compare any plan to any other, drill to SKU-week, promote the winner to the plan of record.
Runs alongside what you have
ERP, WMS, 3PLs, sales channels and your existing planning system feed Atomic. Orders go back to the ERP for execution. Start with the intelligence layer on top of the systems you run, or take the whole platform.
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Tell us what's unique about how you plan.
30 minutes. Walk us through how you plan today and what you'd like to improve. We'll work through your rules and constraints together and show you how Atomic could be tailored to your business.