Forge Command vs Extensiv Order Manager (Skubana)
Extensiv Order Manager fits high-volume brands and 3PLs with an automatic purchase order engine, but it has no CRM and no supplier catalog ASIN matching.
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Extensiv Order Manager is the right fit for Amazon wholesale only if your bottleneck is fulfillment volume, because Extensiv has no CRM and no supplier catalog matching. Extensiv Order Manager, formerly Skubana, serves high-volume direct-to-consumer and marketplace brands and the 3PLs behind them.
Forge Command is a CRM and operations hub built specifically for Amazon wholesale FBA sellers, covering supplier relationships, catalog matching, purchase orders and profit accounting in one system. On purchase orders specifically, Extensiv Order Manager is the closest competitor Forge Command has, so this page compares the two PO models directly.
Extensiv Order Manager's automatic purchase order engine
Extensiv Order Manager auto-generates purchase orders from a published, auditable reorder formula rather than a black box, and it is the strongest automatic-PO engine among the nine inventory and purchase-order tools reviewed here in August 2026.
Three details make the Extensiv engine unusually good for a hybrid Amazon seller. Extensiv tracks FBA and FBM sales velocity independently, which improves replenishment accuracy when the same SKU sells through both. Extensiv creates FBA shipment plans inside the tool rather than in Seller Central. And Extensiv exposes FIFO costs, SKU-level profitability, inventory aging and COGS history per purchase natively. Vendors in Extensiv are procurement records attached to SKUs — a Default Vendor Product per SKU — the right shape for reordering and the wrong shape for winning a new account.
The replenishment PO and the costing PO
A replenishment purchase order and a costing purchase order are two different documents that share a name, and that distinction explains most of what separates Extensiv Order Manager from Forge Command.
A replenishment PO answers "how many units, and when." The system owns the quantity: velocity times lead time plus a safety buffer. Extensiv Order Manager is built around that question, and its published formula is the point of the product.
A costing PO answers "what did this unit cost me, landed." Forge Command's purchase orders carry freight allocation across lines, landed cost, per-SKU cost seeding from the matched wholesale row, SP-API enrichment of PO lines, and a derived most-recent-cost field. That output feeds FIFO COGS for Amazon sellers and every margin number downstream through one shared margin function, so the ROI on a wholesale row, a product record and a purchase order cannot disagree.
If your problem is reorder timing across warehouses, you want the replenishment PO. If one SKU shows three different costs across three POs and no report agrees, you want the costing PO.
How the two purchase order models compare
Both systems produce a document you send a supplier. What differs is what triggers it, who decides the quantity, and what the document is worth afterwards.
| System | What starts a PO | Where the quantity comes from | Cost handling | What the PO feeds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extensiv Order Manager | Automatic reorder formula | FBA and FBM velocity tracked separately, plus lead time | FIFO cost, inventory aging, COGS history per purchase | FBA shipment plans, 3PL and multi-warehouse fulfillment |
| Forge Command | A matched wholesale row, or a restock signal | Inventory Planner forecast, or the operator | Freight allocated across lines, landed cost per unit, most-recent-cost field | FIFO COGS, settlement-based P&L, supplier email on submit |
Both products can tell you the FIFO cost basis of a unit, so the cost columns overlap more than the trigger columns do. The split is upstream. Extensiv assumes the SKU, the vendor and the price already exist in the system. Forge Command assumes you are still deciding which SKUs from a 20,000-line price list are worth buying at all. See how to allocate freight across purchase order lines and how to calculate landed cost for Amazon wholesale for the mechanics on the Forge Command side.
Where the supplier catalog gap sits
Extensiv Order Manager holds a Default Vendor Product per SKU for purchasing and nothing that ingests a distributor price-list file or matches rows to ASINs by UPC or MPN. That is a category-wide hole, not an Extensiv failing.
Across the nine inventory and purchase-order tools checked on 3 August 2026 for this comparison — Extensiv Order Manager, RestockPro, SoStocked, Inventory Planner by Sage, Cin7, Netstock, Prediko, Flieber and InventoryLab — not one ingests a supplier catalog file, and not one has contacts, a deal pipeline, email sequencing or call logging. Every product in that set assumes you already hold an approved account and a SKU you already buy.
Forge Command starts one step earlier. A CSV or Excel price list can be bulk-scanned against Amazon without building a connector, and every matched row carries a derived sellability state — Approved to Sell, Applied to Sell, Restricted, or Not Checked — computed from raw SP-API restriction fields rather than stored, so it cannot drift.
What does Extensiv Order Manager cost
Extensiv publishes no prices. Checked 3 August 2026, there is no price anywhere on Extensiv's site; the brands order-management page names four plan tiers with no figures attached, the first of them called Core. Budgeting requires a sales call.
Price is also the wrong axis here. Extensiv Order Manager is built for brands and 3PLs shipping real volume, and a four-to-six-week implementation is part of what you buy — appropriate if you are configuring warehouses, 3PL connections and routing rules, disproportionate for a three-person operation buying from twelve distributors. Forge Command's pricing is not publicly listed either; contact SupplyForge.
Where Extensiv Order Manager wins
Extensiv Order Manager wins on multi-warehouse and 3PL operations, and it wins on automatic replenishment. Forge Command has no multi-warehouse fulfillment routing and no equivalent of Extensiv's published reorder formula — restock work in Forge Command runs through Inventory Planner and an operator decision, not an auditable auto-PO engine. Sellers weighing that trade-off should read how to decide what to restock from a wholesale supplier.
Extensiv also wins on two specifics that matter to hybrid sellers: Extensiv tracks FBA and FBM velocity independently, which Forge Command does not, and Extensiv creates FBA shipment plans inside the tool. On vendor assurances the gap is wider still — Forge Command is a young product from a small operator with no SOC 2, no ISO certification, no formal SLA and no 24/7 support desk. A brand shipping tens of thousands of orders a month across a 3PL network should buy Extensiv Order Manager.
Frequently asked questions
Does Extensiv Order Manager do supplier catalog matching
No. Extensiv Order Manager stores a Default Vendor Product per SKU for purchasing, checked 3 August 2026, and has no documented ingestion of distributor price-list files and no UPC or MPN to ASIN matching. Evaluating a new supplier's catalog happens outside Extensiv.
Is Extensiv Order Manager still called Skubana
Extensiv Order Manager is the current name for the product formerly sold as Skubana. The Skubana name still appears in third-party write-ups and seller conversation, but Extensiv's own materials use Extensiv Order Manager.
Can Forge Command replace Extensiv Order Manager
Not for a multi-warehouse or 3PL operation. Forge Command has no fulfillment routing and no warehouse management. Forge Command replaces the upstream half — supplier CRM, catalog matching, sourcing decisions and costing purchase orders — and leaves fulfillment orchestration to a dedicated system.