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The Repricing Gap: How Falling Energy Costs Trigger Margin Risk

While crude prices can move almost overnight, the costs that manufacturers and distributors actually incur often take weeks or months to adjust.

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Shift Left Planning: Why Many Plans Fail to Execute - and How to Fix It

Despite major investments in AI, real-time visibility, and faster planning tools, many supply chain organizations continue to battle constant firefighting, expediting, and poor plan adherence. Why do these challenges persist? The answer may be that speed alone isn't enough.

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Decision-centric Planning: the AI-Enabled Path to Decision Velocity

Today’s world is more unpredictable than ever. From regulatory upheavals and trade tariffs to sudden shifts in consumer demand, businesses must be ready to respond swiftly and decisively. Traditional planning processes struggle to keep up with the urgent risks and opportunities that arise between meetings, triggering constant re-planning and creating room for misalignment and disorder.

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The Data Center Boom Has a Component Problem

The organizations that are expected to come out of this boom strongest are the ones treating obsolescence as a design-stage financial decision.

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How AstraZeneca Built Constraint-Based Planning With OMP

Maintaining exceptional service levels to ensure quality patient care is critical to AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company. But for years, its exceptional service levels came at a cost for the company in the form of elevated inventory levels and planning decisions made with limited end-to-end visibility into its supply chain, which impacted agility and growth.

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Reality-based Planning in Pharma: The Key to a High-Performing Supply Chain

Life sciences supply chains are among the most complex in the world. Every day, supply chain leaders must balance shifting demand, constrained supply, and strict regulatory requirements, all while ensuring patients get the medications they need. The margin for error is small, and disconnected, stage-by-stage planning just cannot keep up.

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Smarter, Faster Decisions: Bekaert Drives Agility with Advanced Scenario Planning

How do you plan for a technology that doesn't exist yet, while keeping today's production lines running? That's the challenge Bekaert faced with its titanium fiber-based porous transport layers, a breakthrough component powering industrial-scale green hydrogen production

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How Heineken Scaled Global S&OP Across 40+ Operating Companies with Sunstice

Heineken operates one of the world's most complex brewing supply chains, producing more than 350 brands across 160 breweries and serving nearly 190 markets. At this scale, planning requires continuous alignment of demand forecasts, production capacity, and inventory flows across dozens of operating companies — a challenge compounded by the historical reliance on locally developed planning tools that varied from market to market.

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Five Demand-Forecasting Mistakes Supply Chain Leaders Are Rethinking

For years, supply chain organizations approached demand forecasting by looking backward, with historical sales trends, seasonal cycles and prior purchasing behavior forming the foundation for most planning decisions. But in an environment shaped by geopolitical instability, tariffs and volatile consumer demand, many organizations are realizing that the forecasting models of the past simply can’t keep up with the disruptions of today.

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Watch: AI Enables More Continuous, Adaptive Planning

With almost constant supply-chain disruptions, the need for adaptive planning is crucial, says Andrew Bell, chief product officer at Kinaxis.

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Watch: Connecting Supply Chain to the Store Experience

A lot of the conversation about supply chain optimization occurs within retailer organizations. But how does that actually impact the customer experience?

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The End of EU De Minimis Signals a New Era of Commerce Intelligence

The challenge is understanding how regulatory changes influence shopper behavior, conversion rates, profitability and expansion opportunities across every market you serve.

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