A History Of Partnership
What started in a garage 20 years ago has become the advanced planning solution trusted by Global 2000 enterprises and growing startups alike. Learn how Baxter Planning became the leader in service parts planning.


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1983-1992
Greg Baxter develops a streamlined process for managing worldwide spare parts inventory management while working at Texas Instruments Inc.
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1993
Greg and Audrey Baxter found Baxter Consulting and Software from their garage in Austin, TX.
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1996
Service parts management software solution is officially named Prophet by Baxter.
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1997
Incorporated and renamed to Baxter Planning Systems.
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1999
Licensing model transitions from on-premise to subscription base, with Prophet software being delivered exclusively as a hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.
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2000
First customer deployed with Planning as a Service (PaaS) solution.
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2000
Baxter delivers Network Modeling solution to same-day courier and service parts logistics pioneer SonicAir who is later acquired by UPS.
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2002
Baxter forms strategic alliance with UPS to be the preferred provider of spare parts planning software.
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2003
Prophet is enhanced with a time-phased planning model that enables planning of central warehouses and distribution centers.
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2004
Initial award as “100 Great Supply Chain Partner” by SupplyChainBrain with continued recognition in every year, 13 years in a row.
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2013
Insight consulting offering is launched, delivering analysis of service supply chains using Prophet’s total cost optimization model without the need for integration.
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2015
Best Practice Scorecard launched as methodology for Customer Success program and framework for product innovation and consulting.
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2016
Company is recognized by Austin Business Journal as “Best Places to Work” for the third time.
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2017
Prophet is enhanced to address unique challenges of “trunk stock” for field service inventory planning.
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2017
Baxter Planning Systems receives strategic growth investment from Polaris Partners.
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2018
Brand identity updated to “Baxter Planning” along with the tagline Your Partners in Planning.
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2018
Baxter Planning names Charles H Moeling as new Chief Executive Officer. Greg Baxter will continue to play a strategic role in the management and leadership of the company as Baxter’s Chief Product Officer.