The Forecast Reconciled—The Assumptions Didn’t: How Bottom-Up Stress Testing Improves Resilience

A forecast can reconcile cleanly on paper while embedding assumptions that have never been examined against how customers, channels and products actually behave.
Supply Chain

Building Better Demand Planning for Retail Manufacturers

Analyst Insight: For manufacturers, demands from their retail customers can be volatile and unpredictable, resulting in inventory swings, production disruptions and missed opportunities. The root ...
Supply Chain Management Review

From human-in-the-loop to human-on-the-loop: An AI agent architecture for proactive planning

The March/April 2026 issue of Supply Chain Management Review examines how supply chain leaders are managing supplier risk, circular supply chain design, AI-driven retail planning, CPG network ...