Supply Chain Planning Blog

Insights, best practices and real-world lessons from supply chain planning practitioners.

September 17, 2026 • 5 min read

Improving Production Planning Accuracy in Industrial Manufacturing

A practical guide to improving production planning accuracy across demand, inventory, capacity, scenarios, and execution feedback.

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September 10, 2026 • 10 min read

Demand Sensing: Turning Short-Term Signals Into Better Decisions

Demand sensing brings near-term signals into daily planning to improve replenishment, allocation, and exception management.
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September 3, 2026 • 10 min read

Discrete Manufacturing Supply Chains: Planning Challenges

Discrete manufacturing supply chains require integrated planning to manage demand variability, BOM complexity, inventory risk, and execution constraints.
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August 27, 2026 • 9 min read

Forecast Accuracy in Decision-Centric Supply Chain Planning

Forecast accuracy alone rarely moves supply chain outcomes. Shifting the focus to decision quality is what improves service, inventory, and cost.
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August 20, 2026 • 5 min read

The Velocity of Value: Why Supply Chain Leaders Must Cross the Chasm N.O.W.

Strategic advisor Bart De Muynck on the "Great Reconfiguration", why AI decision velocity separates leaders from laggards, and the compounding cost of saying "not now".
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August 13, 2026 • 10 min read

Supply Chain Decisions: Move Faster Without More Risk

Faster supply chain decisions do not have to mean higher risk. Here is how to cut decision latency with better data, governance, scenario planning, and AI decision support.
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August 6, 2026 • 8 min read

Service Parts Planning Vs. Traditional Supply Chain Planning

Service parts planning is built around uptime, repair readiness, and service commitments, not predictable product sales. Here is why it demands different forecasting, inventory, and network strategies.
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July 30, 2026 • 10 min read

Industrial Manufacturing Supply Chain Planning: Key Challenges

Industrial manufacturing supply chain planning is built around reliability, repeatability, and cost control, but today’s operating environment is anything but steady. Demand swings, long lead times, engineered-to-order variants, and frequent disruptions can expose the limits of traditional planning approaches.
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July 23, 2026 • 9 min read

Managing Long-Tail Demand in Industrial Manufacturing

Long-tail demand is the persistent, low-volume requirement for a wide range of items that individually sell infrequently but collectively represent meaningful service expectations, revenue, and operational complexity.
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Supply Chain Planning Blog

Improving Production Planning Accuracy in Industrial Manufacturing

Demand Sensing: Turning Short-Term Signals Into Better Decisions

Discrete Manufacturing Supply Chains: Planning Challenges

Forecast Accuracy in Decision-Centric Supply Chain Planning

The Velocity of Value: Why Supply Chain Leaders Must Cross the Chasm N.O.W.

Supply Chain Decisions: Move Faster Without More Risk

Service Parts Planning Vs. Traditional Supply Chain Planning

Industrial Manufacturing Supply Chain Planning: Key Challenges

Managing Long-Tail Demand in Industrial Manufacturing