Essence is an early prototype, built with a pilot brewery. Numbers come from loaded data snapshots, not a live connection, and the forecast is a planning starting point, not a promise. Every page says where its numbers come from and what is still an assumption.
What you can do
See demand
A 13-week forecast per product, built from your own shipments, with seasonal patterns you can adjust.
Plan packaging
Work back from demand to cans, lids and cartons, with order-by dates.
Add what you know
Add a promotion, a big order or an override. The plan recalculates and keeps your reason.
Share one set of numbers
Publish a numbered version so the whole team discusses the same plan.
How Essence is organised
Each page also has a built-in guide: open it with the ? button in the page header for a short “what, why, what to do” on that page.