Written by supply chain practitioners who have spent their careers running operations and the technology behind them. No vendor spin and no textbook recitals. Just metrics, trade-offs and tools as they behave in the real world, not in the demo.
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DIFOT & delivery performance
What a good score actually is, how to calculate it honestly, and how teams game it once the target has a bonus attached.
Forecast accuracy & bias
MAPE, WAPE, bias and forecast value add, plus the incentive problems underneath the numbers that no algorithm will fix.
AI in the supply chain
Agentic AI, AI forecasting, control towers and digital twins, reality checked by people who have lived the implementations.
Latest articles
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- How clean is your crystal ball: measuring forecast accuracy – Part 1In this blog I explain how to calculate forecast accuracy. Within the industry multiple approaches to calculate forecast accuracy exist, all serving…
- Driving Efficiency through Forecast AccuracyAll companies big or small do some sort of business forecasting, they estimate how their future will look like and use this…
Who we are
We are operators, planners and systems people. Most of the industry’s bad advice comes from the gap between those jobs. The people who know the tech have never run a warehouse, and the people who have run a warehouse rarely know the tech. We have done both, and this site exists to say the things certification bodies and software vendors can’t.