Supply Chain Blog
One modeled scenario shows a plant shutdown causing zero lost sales because other plants and finished goods covered it; another shows a sole-source input cutoff eventually depleting finished goods and causing lost sales. This MIT…
Illustrative scenario: a delayed harvest can make airfreight more necessary at the same moment it makes airfreight harder to afford. Weather can push a crop past a fast vessel departure, leaving a narrow selling window…
A manufacturer reports healthy sales and margins while its planner faces competing demands: reduce stock and protect service. Working capital reveals execution problems that sales and margins can hide. An illustrative review follows the operating…
The room can stay cold while confidence disappears A cold room can keep running while trustworthy evidence about its temperature disappears. The refrigeration may still be doing useful work, yet the people responsible for product…
A rival could buy the same glasses tomorrow and still miss the correct entrance. The valuable asset may be the operational knowledge returned to the next delivery, not the frame on a driver’s face. Amazon…
Generative AI can make fabricated evidence more convincing. Supply-chain audits must verify where records come from and whether independent evidence supports the claim.
A low container rate can become expensive before the vessel sails. The visible saving is created at award, while the exposure may emerge as rejected space, a rolled booking, a missed destination port date, emergency…
Small work often waits behind large projects. A planner can spend more time waiting for a requested SAP export than reviewing what it should reveal. Small SAP tasks are worth automating only when access, permission…
A forecast can be right and still arrive too late to help anyone. That becomes less surprising when the work is viewed from the last moment when a practical response is still possible. A demand…