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Deep-dive articles on Decision Intelligence, methodology, frameworks, and technology behind autonomous supply chain planning.
Decision Intelligence for Supply Chain
How Gartner's Decision Intelligence framework transforms supply chain planning from data-driven to decision-centric. The four lifecycle capabilities, maturity progression, and why decisions are digital assets.
The Case for Autonomous Planning
Why the supply chain planning function needs structural change, not incremental optimization. The shift from periodic planning to continuous autonomous response.
Sequential Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
A unified framework for supply chain decisions under uncertainty. How five core elements and four policy approaches map to real planning decisions.
The Agentic Operating Model
From Jordi Visser's "Agentic Inversion" to practical implementation. Why agents should own decisions by default, with humans providing governance.
Why Safety Stock Is the Wrong Abstraction
The DDMRP critique: safety stock as a hard demand target causes MRP to generate planned orders that compete with real customer demand. Inventory buffers are uncertainty absorbers.
Stochastic Planning: Beyond Point Estimates
Why averages lie and how probability distributions change the planning conversation from "what's the plan?" to "what's the probability the plan works?"
The Tuesday Crisis: Why Continuous Planning Matters
A supplier delay on Tuesday doesn't care that your MPS run was Monday. The business case for event-driven, continuous planning.