Most emerging brands decide what to make the morning of, from a spreadsheet and a good guess. Lottly builds the plan from real orders and real stock — the make-list, the shortfall, the purchase orders and the labor — and every run leaves a record behind it.
One chain, left to right, with no re-entry between any two links. Change a quantity at the front and everything downstream moves.
One product against one supplier is a spreadsheet. Twelve products, shared base mixes, three sites, different lead times, partial stock and minimum order quantities is not — and that is the point at which most brands hire someone rather than fix the system.
A plan nobody can execute is a document. These are the parts that decide whether it actually runs.
It turns demand into a plan: how much of each product to make, when to make it, what ingredients that requires, and what you are short. Good planning software derives all of that from real orders and real stock rather than asking someone to estimate it every week.
Wholesale sales orders you raise in Lottly, plus online and point-of-sale orders flowing in from Shopify, Square, Toast, Clover, WooCommerce, Squarespace, BigCommerce, Wix and Faire. Distributor purchase orders arrive as EDI 850 files. You can also add a manual forecast for a market or an event.
Yes. Lottly explodes the plan down to ingredient level, subtracts what is already on hand at each site, and drafts the purchase orders for the shortfall — grouped by supplier, at their pack sizes and minimum order quantities, with the email written.
A base mix, a brine or a bulk seasoning is a recipe that is also an ingredient. Lottly plans the sub-recipe run before the runs that consume it, so a make-list reads in the order a kitchen actually works.
You log the real yield. Lottly re-spreads the run cost across the units that actually exist, records the variance against baseline, and updates stock to the true figure — so cost per unit reflects what happened, not what was planned.
Yes. Assign the shift to the run and the hours land in the cost of the units produced. Lottly fits setup time against per-unit time across real runs, so the rate is measured rather than estimated — which is what makes an equipment-versus-outsource decision arithmetic.
Yes. Every site holds its own stock, transfers move it without breaking the lot trace, and co-packer mode receives finished goods without drawing down raw materials. You can run in-house and co-packed products side by side.
Growth, at $199 a month. Recipes, batch logging and lot assignment are in every plan from $149; Growth adds the forecast, the make-list, sales and purchase orders, and shift scheduling.
Add a recipe, connect your store, and watch the next order turn into a make-list and a draft purchase order. Production planning is part of Growth at $199 a month.