COMING 10.13.26
The Way Your Team Plans. Will Change Forever.
Whether you're stuck with ERP modules, spreadsheets, gut-instinct buying, or a solution that's underperforming, replace it with one explainable view of demand and inventory. Our AI-native platform turns that data into smarter forecasts, enabling you to protect service levels and free up working capital.
See Blue Ridge in Action
One supply chain planning platform for demand forecasting, replenishment, and inventory optimization, powered by Adaptive ML, so plans adjust the moment conditions change.
Here's what that looks like in practice:
- Reduce excess inventory and stockouts at the same time.
- Easily understand exactly why every forecast and order recommendation says what it says, no black box.
- Go live in less than 90 days, from kickoff to your first order.
- Ongoing support from the Strategic Success Practice once you're live, at no additional cost.
Trusted by THE WORLD’S LEADING SUPPLY CHAIN TEAMS
Benefits
Advantages of Blue Ridge Supply Chain Planning Software
The most effective supply chain teams don't just collect data, they turn it into intelligent decisions. The Blue Ridge platform gives you the visibility and confidence to do exactly that.
Free up working capital without risking service
Multi-echelon inventory optimization positions stock across your entire network instead of protecting each location in isolation, so you carry less inventory overall while maintaining the availability customers expect.
Plan with what's ahead, not just what's behind
Adaptive ML draws on weather patterns, freight market indices, and macroeconomic indicators alongside transaction history, so demand shifts show up in your plan before they show up in a stockout or write-off.
Defend every decision with confidence
Every forecast and order recommendation comes with the reasoning shown in plain language, so nothing is a guess.
See return on investment faster, with less risk
Standard implementation takes less than 90 days from kickoff to live orders, not the 12–18 months typical of enterprise transformation programs. After go-live, the Strategic Success Practice consultant stays invested in your results at no additional cost, proactively guiding your strategy as your business evolves.
Proven Results
With Blue Ridge Supply Chain Planning Software, you can achieve up to:
25%
Inventory Reduction
67%
Decrease in Overstocks
~99%
Service Levels
Customer Stories
Trusted by distribution leaders across industries
From automotive to HVAC to food & beverage distributors, Blue Ridge customers are transforming better forecasts into measurable improvements in inventory, service levels, and bottom-line profitability.
“The ERP handles transactions. Blue Ridge handles the intelligence. That's the difference.”
Brad Smith
SVP, Procurement & Sales
Southwest Traders supplies national restaurant chains – Panera, Einstein, Starbucks, Panda Express – from a buying team of nine to eleven working on an AS/400 ERP. Blue Ridge cut order-build time from days to a few hours, held service levels at 99.95% across blue-chip customers, and let the company onboard new brands without adding to the planning team.
99.95%
Service level across national restaurant brands
~18.5
Days on hand
“Blue Ridge has been the most user-friendly, results-driven system that I've seen so far. Our whole planning and buying team absolutely loves it.”
Stephanie Hunn
Senior Manager, Planning
Before Blue Ridge, ISN was struggling to optimize fill rate and inventory turns simultaneously. The team evaluated multiple vendors and chose Blue Ridge for the onboarding, training, and ongoing system improvements baked into the relationship. They went live and saw measurable results from the first operating cycle forward – with the Strategic Success Practice supporting every step.
~99%
Forecast accuracy maintained
50%
Improvement in fill rates over twelve months
“The goal wasn't just to reduce inventory. It was to have what we need, when we need it. That's exactly what Blue Ridge helped us do.”
David Mays
VP of Operations
West Virginia Electric Supply is an electrical distributor running eight branches on the Eclipse ERP. Centralizing inventory and moving to data-led replenishment let the team strip out the dead stock that had quietly accumulated for years – while service to contractors and customers held above 96% and the planning organization shifted from firefighting to forward-looking decisions.
70–80%
Reduction in dead stock
96.3%
Service level to contractors and customers
"Blue Ridge has the best interface and analytics you would need as a professional purchasing buyer"
Thelma Chavez
Director of Operations
Jackson Systems is a six-division HVAC distributor generating roughly $40M in annual revenue. Before Blue Ridge, the planning team reviewed every SKU manually – a process measured in days, not hours. Exception-based planning compressed that work, freed cash from excess stock, and pushed service levels into a range the team had never sustained before.
~$1M
Drop in inventory on hand
98.1%
Service level, up from 88%
