Perspectives on manufacturing operations, inventory architecture, and the systems that keep production lines running.
The spreadsheet served you well at one location with 50 SKUs. At three locations with 400, it becomes the single biggest risk to your production schedule.
Stock quantities should never be edited directly. They should be the calculated result of every inbound, outbound, transfer, and adjustment that has ever occurred.
Demand planning isn't one number. It's a layered view across multiple time horizons, each serving a different operational decision.
ATP doesn't just tell you what you have. It tells you what you can commit to - accounting for reservations, production schedules, and incoming supply.
Materials ordered after stockouts, not before. The shift from reactive to predictive procurement starts with connecting consumption data to planning horizons.
A single BOM error doesn't just waste material. It cascades into incorrect costing, wrong procurement quantities, production variance, and audit failures.