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Simple, focused planning tools for growing product businesses.

Practical Supply Chain Planning builds simple, focused planning tools for growing product businesses that need better inventory decisions without the cost and complexity of enterprise systems.

Many small and medium businesses reach a point where spreadsheets, exports, and manual calculations can no longer keep up. The result is stock shortages, excess inventory, unclear purchasing priorities, and hours spent rebuilding the same reports.

Our tools are designed around real supply chain workflows — bringing together demand, inventory, open orders, and supplier information into clear planning views that help teams decide what to buy, when to buy, and where attention is needed.

We focus on practical software: easy to understand, quick to implement, and designed to work with the systems businesses already use. Simple Excel-based inputs and uploads make it easy to improve planning capability without replacing existing systems or starting a large ERP project.

Our approach is transparent rather than a black box. Users can see the inputs, understand the calculations, review exceptions, and stay in control of planning decisions — with software that supports their experience instead of hiding the logic.

Who’s behind this

Daniel Hampton

Daniel Hampton

Founder, Practical Supply Chain Planning

Practical Supply Chain Planning was founded by Daniel Hampton, a supply chain professional with many years of experience across manufacturing, distribution, retail, and consumer products businesses.

Daniel has worked hands-on with inventory management, demand planning, supply planning, and production scheduling — using everything from spreadsheets and basic ERP systems through to advanced planning platforms.

Throughout his career, Daniel saw the same challenge appear repeatedly: growing businesses often need better planning processes long before they are ready for expensive enterprise software projects.

Practical Supply Chain Planning was created to close that gap — combining real supply chain experience with modern software tools to build practical applications that improve visibility, support better decisions, and are simple enough for teams to actually use.