Retail and CPG operators sit on the widest long tail in enterprise software. Category managers rebuild forecasts in spreadsheets. Trade spend flows through three systems before it becomes a deduction. The promo calendar that ops runs off does not match the one finance books against. Everyone knows the leakage exists — nobody can point to the PO it came from.
Category managers build the forecast in a spreadsheet that nobody else trusts. Weeks-of-cover is a lagging metric nobody refreshes.
Every SKU carries a live demand curve, a promo overlay, and a supplier commit — audited to the purchase order, not a slide.
Slotting fees, MDF, and off-invoice discounts are reconciled manually long after the quarter closes. Leakage is discovered in an audit.
Trade-spend accruals tie directly to the PO, the promo calendar, and the settlement cycle — with variance alerts before finance locks the period.
Master data, GS1 attributes, packaging specs and vendor onboarding live in four systems with no common workflow.
One guided NPI workflow covers item setup, vendor approval, GS1 sync, and store-level rollout — measured in days, not sprints.
Every ORDENTRA retail and CPG deployment starts with these six capabilities active on day one. Calibrated against the promo calendar, the assortment plan, and the trade-spend accrual cycle you already run.
Every SKU in every channel gets a live sell-through, weeks-of-cover, and exception grade — so the long tail stops hiding behind top-20 dashboards.
Base demand, seasonality, promo lift, and cannibalisation scored per SKU-store pair. Refreshed nightly with on-hand and point-of-sale signals.
Slotting, MDF, off-invoice, scan-downs and chargebacks matched to the underlying PO and promo, with automated deduction workflows.
Replenishment plans respect in-flight promotions, price events, and display commitments — so safety stock is not consumed by a feature ad.
On-shelf availability, back-room inventory, and store-group performance graded against the replenishment plan, not the corporate average.
Two-way sync with JDA, Blue Yonder, Oracle Retail, and SAP IS-Retail — so category, planogram, and assortment data stay aligned.
Targets set with our founding design-partner cohort for multi-channel retail and CPG operators, calibrated against long-tail SKU count and trade-spend complexity.
Design goal for on-shelf stock-outs during promotional windows across feature, display, and TPR events.
Goal: surface unclaimed deductions and trade-spend leakage within the fiscal year, before the audit finds them.
Design target for forecasted vs. actual weeks-of-cover at SKU-DC pair granularity over a rolling 13-week window.
Goal for mean time from item setup request to first shippable order, including GS1 and vendor setup.
Design targets set with founding partners. Measured outcomes at GA, Q2 2026.
Retail and CPG compliance is not a single audit — it is a layer cake. GS1 and GDSN run underneath item data. EDI 850 / 810 run underneath every PO and invoice. FDA labelling and FSMA 204 traceability apply to every food or dietary supplement SKU. And PCI DSS applies to every channel that touches a card.
ORDENTRA treats these as first-class constraints on the operational ledger. Evidence is generated as items, POs, and receipts flow through — not reconstructed by an intern the night before the regulator shows up.
Audit exports, evidence bundles, and named-user access logs are generated on demand — no separate GRC bolt-on required.
ORDENTRA is being built for the merchandisers, category managers, and finance leaders who already know their top-20 SKUs cold but lose visibility the moment the long tail starts. If the promo calendar ops runs off doesn’t match the one finance books against, we want to hear from you.
We’re taking on a small founding cohort of retail and CPG design partners before Q2 2026 GA. Design partners get weekly build sessions, direct input on the trade-spend, replenishment, and merchandising workflows, and pricing locked for the first two years of GA.
Founding cohort applications reviewed weekly. Q2 2026 GA.
ORDENTRA ships pre-tuned playbooks for each vertical we support. Every module writes to the same operational ledger — so a multi-industry conglomerate can adopt one, then expand.
A single-category pilot runs 8–10 weeks including merchandising, EDI, and trade-spend integrations. Multi-category expansion follows a quarterly cadence. The deployment team is led by retail operators who have run the same close cycle you run.