We help operations leaders decide what to make, what to buy, what to hold, and what to promise.
Portolane Analytics is a domain-led analytics and consulting firm. We turn planning, manufacturing, procurement, logistics and fulfilment data into strategic insight, dashboards, forecasts and AI-assisted decisions — built by practitioners, not a pyramid of analysts.
41.87°N, 87.62°W — plotted from what is actually known
Domain comes first. Technology amplifies it.
Most analytics firms sell the technology and hope the domain follows. We start with practitioners who have designed, run and rebuilt supply chain and operations processes in real operating environments — then apply trusted data, analytics, AI and intelligent agents to make those decisions faster, better and more consistent.
Technology should quietly enable better decisions — not be the headline.
More about our approach →Deep domain expertise
→ business decisions
Trusted data
→ analytics → artificial intelligence
Intelligent applications
→ AI agents → business outcomes
Analytics applied across the full operating chain
From demand planning to reverse logistics, we bring reporting dashboards, forecasting and prescriptive analytics to the processes where operational decisions actually get made.
Analytics as craft, not decoration
Senior by design
Engagements are led by practitioners with hands-on supply chain and operations experience — not a pyramid of analysts.
Decisions, not dashboards
We scope around what must improve — what to make, buy, hold and promise — then work back to the data.
Analytics as craft
Forecasting, simulation and optimisation are core capability, applied only where they change a decision.
We stay to the outcome
We carry the work through design, build enablement and adoption — not to a recommendation and no further.
Manufacturing depth, applied broadly
Manufacturing is where our depth is greatest — it is not the boundary. We support operations analytics and performance tracking across the following sectors.
"A portolan is a navigational chart — used to plot a dependable course from what is actually known." That is the discipline we bring to analytics: trusted data first, insight second, action third.
Let's plot a course from your operating data to better decisions.
Whether you are just building trust in your reporting or ready to scale AI agents across routine decisions, we meet you where you are.
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