Tariffs eating margin
Every unit costs more, so over-ordering hurts more than it ever has.
tariffs · wild demand · brutal MOQs
Stop guessing your next order.
Order Otter reads your stochastic lead times and demand, simulates the full range of what could happen, and hands you the order that makes the most money. Built for operations planners — no data science team required.
Everyoutcome simulated
Besteconomic order
Zeroscience team needed
Recommended order
🦦 Otter's pick
1,250 units
Demand scenarios
the reality
Every order is a bet. Right now the odds are ugly.
Supply chains got harder, not easier. One bad order ties up cash, blows your margin, or leaves shelves empty — and you're making that call with a forecast you already know is wrong.
Demand that won't sit still
Your forecast is a single guess. Reality shows up as a whole range.
MOQs forcing your hand
Suppliers push big minimum buys that bury cash in inventory.
Lead times all over the map
When it arrives is as uncertain as how much you'll actually sell.
what it does
Order Otter reads your demand and lead-time uncertainty, plays out every outcome, and picks the order that makes the most money — at the service level you choose.
see it before you commit
Test the waters, then place the order.
Instead of a single forecast and a gut call, you get a clear recommendation with the tradeoffs in plain sight: expected profit, service level, stockout risk, and leftover inventory.
Scenario-first
Models demand, lead time, and cost uncertainty directly — not one lucky number.
Decision-time
Answers the question you actually have: how much do I order right now?
Explainable
Every recommendation comes with the why, so you can defend it in the room.
how it works
Four steps. No modeling required.
You bring the numbers you already have. The otter does the heavy math and hands back a decision.
1
Bring your numbers
Demand history or estimates, costs, price, lead times, MOQs. Fill a form or drop in a spreadsheet.
2
Simulate the futures
Thousands of demand and lead-time scenarios play out — the whole range, not a single guess.
3
Rank every order
RaftRank™ scores each candidate quantity across all those outcomes by the money it makes.
4
Get one clear order
A single recommendation, with service level, stockout risk, and leftover inventory laid out.
the engine
The otter magic has a name.
A raft is what you call a group of otters floating together — paws linked so nobody drifts off. RaftRank™ borrows the idea: it floats every order you could place down the same river of simulated futures and ranks them by the money they make.
The result is an optimization-grade answer in seconds — the reason Order Otter stays simple and fast without a solver to build or babysit.
proprietary engine
RaftRank™
Priority scenario search, otter-style. It weighs the full spread of outcomes and surfaces the economically best order — every time your numbers change.
- Scores the whole range of outcomes, not one forecast
- Ranks every candidate order by expected economics
- Reruns instantly when tariffs, costs, or demand shift
operations-friendly
No installs. No IT tickets. No data project.
Order Otter is a simple web app that fits how operations teams already work — so you can get a smarter order today, not after a six-month integration.
Zero installation
It's a web app. Open a link and go — nothing to download, deploy, or push past IT. Works right in your browser.
open & goNo system sync required
No ERP integration, no data pipelines, no waiting on engineering. Bring the numbers you already have and get a decision.
no integrationWorks with Excel
Download a template, fill it in, upload it back — and get your recommendation as Excel too. Excel in, Excel out is just one of the ways in and out of Order Otter.
excel in · excel outwhy order otter
Made for planners, not PhDs.
Order Otter puts the decision back where it belongs — with the people who own the order. No notebooks, no black box, no science team required.
Most inventory tools
- Hand you a forecast and leave the hard call to you
- Assume a data science team to build and maintain models
- Hide the logic in a black box you can't defend
- Give you one more dashboard to babysit
Order Otter
- Gives you the decision, not just a number
- Runs on a spreadsheet — no science team required
- Shows the tradeoffs so you can explain every order
- Puts the call in the planner's hands, math included
custom builds
We build it around your problem.
Every supply chain is different. We custom-build Order Otter for your use case — your constraints, your economics, your data — and walk your team through getting the most out of it. No science team required.
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who's behind it
Adam DeJans Jr.
Founder & creator of Order Otter
Order Otter is built by someone who has shipped these systems for real. Adam is an applied operations research scientist with 10+ years designing large-scale optimization and simulation systems — work that has driven $60B+ in planning decisions at companies like Amazon, Toyota, Ford, and Gurobi.
$60B+ decisions optimized
Amazon · Toyota · Ford · Gurobi
US patent holder
4× published author
Princeton-endorsed (Warren Powell)
Currently a Senior Research Scientist at Amazon and co-founder of Bit Bros, Adam has led supply-chain decision systems at Toyota, was one of Gurobi's first 200 employees, and holds a US patent from his routing work at Ford. He's the best-selling author of four books, including The Decision Factory — with a foreword by Warren B. Powell, Professor Emeritus of Operations Research at Princeton.