Manufacturing Planning Software for Smarter Planning & Analytics
Purpose-built for manufacturing teams to handle budgeting, forecasting and reporting.
The Top Challenges Manufacturers Face Today
Without the right manufacturing planning software, modern manufacturers face multiple planning and analytics challenges:
Volatile demand and market uncertainty: Shifts in orders and market conditions make it difficult to plan production, manage inventory and meet service targets without adding cost.
Rising material and labor costs squeezing margins: Fluctuating material prices and labor costs squeeze margins and force frequent updates to budgets and forecasts.
Disconnected systems and siloed planning: When transactional and planning systems don’t talk to each other, teams spend time merging files instead of analyzing results.
Slow financial closes and manual reporting: Manual reconciliations delay month-end closes and limit time for forward planning.
Complex multi-plant and multi-entity operations: Multiple plants, entities, currencies, and product lines make consolidation harder and performance less transparent.
Core Features of Mercur’s Manufacturing Planning Software
With Mercur, your manufacturing team can manage budgeting, forecasting and reporting in one streamlined process. You get faster insights, stronger alignment, and the flexibility to adapt when conditions change.
Data Consolidation
Bring ledger entries, production data, and inventory records into a single model, so everyone works from the same numbers, not separate spreadsheets.
Demand Planning
Build more accurate demand plans with statistical forecasting and scenario modeling. Factor in seasonality, promotions, or supplier limits, and immediately see how each forecast impacts production capacity and cash flow.
Data Analysis
Access prebuilt and customizable reports that let you track plant KPIs, monitor variances, and prepare board-ready reports without depending on IT.
Scenario Planning and Analysis for Industrial Manufacturing
Unexpected changes in supply, demand, or costs can disrupt your plans overnight. With Mercur’s manufacturing analytics software, you can prepare in advance by testing “what if” scenarios before they happen.
Model changes in raw-material costs, supplier delays, demand fluctuations or production capacity, and instantly see how they affect profit, cash and inventory. Our interactive dashboard lets your leadership team explore different scenarios side by side, so you can weigh trade-offs and make informed, practical decisions quickly.
Plan Faster With Templates, Reports and Dashboards
Prebuilt financial reports: Standard P&L, balance sheet and consolidation templates that reduce initial configuration and ensure consistent financial layouts.
Demand-planning templates: Models and workflows that support S&OP, sales forecasting and reorder planning so teams don’t start from scratch.
Manufacturing KPI dashboards: Dashboards focused on throughput, inventory turns, scrap, lead time and margin so plant and finance leaders monitor the same health indicators.
Seamless ERP Integration
Mercur integrates with common ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor and others) to pull ledger, order and inventory data into your planning model. That connection reduces manual exports and keeps plan inputs linked to the systems your teams already use, so numbers used in plans reflect actual transactional activity.
Why Do Leading Manufacturers Choose Mercur?
When you run a manufacturing business, the last thing you need is losing valuable time to spreadsheets and misaligned numbers. With Mercur, you bring finance and operations together in one place and cut out the manual work that slows you down.
Here’s what our clients gain with Mercur:
Shorter planning cycles with less time spent consolidating data
Fewer errors and cleaner cross-plant comparisons you can actually trust
Stronger alignment in S&OP and budget reviews
Faster answers to “what if…” questions so you can react quickly to shifts in demand, supply, or cash flow
Trusted by Leading Manufacturers Worldwide
Seco Tools
Seco 'tools up' for the performance management challenge with Mercur Business Control
Väderstad
Väderstad saves time with Mercur and they have a better overview.
BillerudKorsnäs
BillerudKorsnäs uses Mercur Business Control to analyze and track costs against budget
Saab AB Aeronautics
Mercur Business Control let Saab's Performance Management insight take flight
Forbo Flooring
Forbo uses Mercur Business Control for control and management of expenses and costs
Mellanskog
Mellanskog have developed a user-friendly system with navigable dashboards
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Mercur Solutions (UK) Limited - UK office
Mercur Solutions Limited
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Mercur Solutions AB - head office in Sweden
Mercur Solutions AB
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SE-171 54 Solna
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A Swedish company with 50 years of experience, delivering solutions for performance management and business intelligence.