Baxter Planning

Baxter Planning is featured in the IDC ProductScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Service Parts Management, 2026.

It’s encouraging to see this build on our recognition in the MarketScape and reflect how planning capabilities are being applied across real-world customer environments.

IDC highlights a clear shift from static planning toward more predictive and dynamic approaches, including:

• AI-powered forecasting that better anticipates demand variability
• Planning that aligns inventory decisions to customer satisfaction, investment, and service risk
• Greater visibility across the to identify risks earlier
• Continuous improvement through adaptive, data-driven decision-making

As complexity increases, these capabilities are becoming essential to improving outcomes without trade-offs.

Read more: https://baxterplanning.com/resources/blog/idc-productscape-baxter-service-parts-planning-capabilities/

Service organizations can’t afford reactive, disconnected planning anymore.

As service networks grow more complex and expectations continue to rise, success depends on more than just having the right part available. It requires eliminating trade-offs between service, cost, and risk through intelligent, orchestrated decision making.

At Field Service Next West, Mike Ross joined industry leaders to discuss how organizations are rethinking technician inventory. One theme was clear: autonomous planning is reshaping how decisions are made across the .

From AI-powered forecasting to automated exception management, teams are moving beyond firefighting and toward proactive, data-driven ex*****on.

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Turning Technician Inventory Challenges into Strategic Advantage Learn how AI-powered, autonomous planning transforms Service Supply Chains by optimizing inventory, improving service levels, and eliminating trade-offs between cost, risk, and performance.

The future of the Service Supply Chain is being shaped by bold, experienced, and forward-thinking leaders.

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Most systems were built for predictable manufacturing environments, not the complexity of the Service Supply Chain. Service parts demand is erratic, and stockouts are costly (and costly is an understatement).

Purpose-built Service Parts Planning models account for stockout costs, optimize target stock levels, and protect service performance. For many organizations, relying on ERP add-ons is quietly increasing risk and cost.

So, is it really worth it? 🤔

Read more: https://baxterplanning.com/resources/blog/purpose-built-service-parts-planning-vs-erp-add-ons/

Service Supply Chain leaders are done choosing between high and missed SLAs.

Planning as a Service brings embedded Practitioner Expertise and purpose-built technology together to reduce carrying costs by more than 35%, improve first-time fix rates by 25%, and increase planner productivity by 40%.

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Instead of constant firefighting, teams gain control, financial clarity, and measurable performance improvement.

Because nothing says “I care” like the right part, in the right place, at the right time, at the right cost.

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Service Supply Chain teams are being asked to do more with less, higher service levels, lower inventory, and faster response times. Many try to solve this by bolting ERP add-ons onto systems that were never designed for service parts complexity.

That approach often creates more work, more risk, and more tradeoffs.

In this blog, we break down why purpose-built Service Parts Planning is fundamentally different from ERP add-ons, and why it is critical for managing volatility, uptime commitments, and total cost in modern Service Supply Chains.

Read more: https://baxterplanning.com/resources/blog/purpose-built-service-parts-planning-vs-erp-add-ons/

ICYMI, Baxter Planning was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for AI-Enabled Service Parts Management 2025.

IDC highlights the growing need for AI-powered platforms that help service organizations move from reactive to predictive and prescriptive operations.

For service leaders, this recognition reinforces what our customers already know. Purpose-built technology and practitioner expertise deliver real outcomes.

📢 Read the announcement: https://baxterplanning.com/news/baxter-planning-named-a-leader-in-idc-marketscape-for-ai-enabled-service-parts-management/