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Our team recently spent time volunteering at the Central Texas Food Bank, helping support their mission of providing nutritious food to families across the .

Thank you to the Central Texas Food Bank for the opportunity to serve. We are grateful to be part of an effort that makes a meaningful difference.

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.

Read our takeaways >>

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.