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Built for SMB CPG Brands

Demand planning, MRP, and real-time COGS for SMB CPG brands. No consultants required.

Guidance learns how you make and sell your products through a simple conversation, then configures itself to match your operations. Real-time lot traceability, true margins, and organic compliance, from day one, even if your data is messy.

A completely different kind of operations software.

Traditional ERPs force you to change how you work. Guidance starts with the math of your operations and adapts to your unique supply chain.

Zero Implementation Fees

Legacy software requires expensive consultants to map your business into rigid tables. Guidance replaces the consultant with a structured conversation. It asks about your warehouses, co-packers, and suppliers, then automatically configures the system to match your reality.

Works with Incomplete Data

Traditional ERPs break if a single field is empty. Guidance is built for the reality of SMBs. If you don't know your exact freight cost, the system applies an industry benchmark to give you a provisional landed cost immediately, clearly flagging what needs to be refined later.

Active Contract Monitoring

Guidance isn't just a passive database. It monitors your operational data against your signed co-packer and supplier agreements. When an invoice deviates from the contracted terms, the system flags it instantly, no manual reconciliation needed.

“We source certified organic fruit internationally, process it through co-manufacturers, and sell through retail and ecommerce. We couldn’t find software that connected all of it: supplier traceability, co-packing costs, organic mass balance, and real COGS, without requiring a massive implementation team. So we built it. Guidance is what we run Claros Farm on today.”

CEO, Claros Farm. built Guidance to run his own operation

Claros Farm

Real-time operations math, not static spreadsheets.

When an input changes, like a freight rate increase or a yield loss at the co-packer, every affected margin, reorder point, and compliance figure updates instantly.

True COGS

Track landed costs including freight, yield loss, and co-packer fees down to the penny. See your real margins by SKU, channel, and customer, live.

Lot Traceability

Full FSMA 204 compliance. Track ingredients from supplier to final retailer in seconds. Forward recall and backward traceback in one click.

Organic Mass Balance

Automated reconciliation for organic certifiers. Eliminate days of spreadsheet work before every audit. Always audit-ready.

Multi-Channel Inventory

Perfect sync across Shopify, wholesale, and EDI. Real-time lot tracking, location management, and multi-warehouse visibility.

MRP & Purchasing

Demand-driven replenishment, automated purchase suggestions, and material requirements planning that accounts for lead times and MOQs.

Conversational Setup

No six-month implementation. Guidance asks you questions about your operations and configures itself. Change your process? The system adapts with you.

Everything your operation needs, unified.

Each module is purpose-built for CPG operations and deeply integrated with every other module, out of the box.

Inventory

Real-time lot tracking, location management, and multi-warehouse visibility

Production

Bill of materials, batch management, yield tracking, and production scheduling

Purchasing

Purchase orders, supplier management, receiving, and MRP-driven replenishment

Fulfillment

Order management, lot allocation, shipment tracking, and customer documentation

Traceability

Forward recall, backward traceback, lot genealogy, and real-time lot location

MRP

Material requirements planning, demand-driven replenishment, and automated purchase suggestions

Costing

Real-time COGS, margin analysis, landed cost tracking, and lot-level cost allocation

Compliance

Organic mass balance, FSMA 204 traceability, and automated audit documentation

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