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Issue #7 | 2026-07-22 | 7 min read

Everyone Is Buying Resilience. Few Can Prove What It Protects.

CEOs are paying more for resilience, but many organizations still cannot prove which risks those investments reduce or how long the business can keep operating under shock.

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Issue #6 | 2026-07-15 | 6 min read

Three Planning Teams. One Dashboard. Zero Rehearsal.

Lowe's unified planning move shows why decision rights, not dashboards, determine whether IBP teams can turn AI recommendations into faster supply chain decisions.

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Issue #5 | 2026-07-08 | 7 min read

The 2029 Deadline Is Real. Your Value Chain Isn't Ready.

Omnibus I narrowed CSDDD direct scope, but indirect value-chain audit pressure will reshape procurement governance and S&OP planning before 2029.

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Issue #4 | 2026-07-01 | 7 min read

The Strait Reopens. Your Plan Doesn't.

The Strait of Hormuz is reopening. Most IBP cycles treated the closure as temporary. Here's why that assumption is about to fail your next planning cycle.

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Issue #3 | 2026-06-24 | 7 min read

Container Volumes Are Telling Two Stories. Your Plan Is Built for One.

Two credible container-volume signals are moving in opposite directions. The planning risk is not which forecast is right. It is whether the plan can survive both.

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Issue #2 | 2026-06-17 | 7 min read

Semiconductor bottlenecks are an IBP scenario-planning problem

Semiconductor concentration is not just a capacity issue. For IBP leaders, it is a scenario-planning test: can the supply plan respond when assumptions move?

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Issue #1 | 2026-06-10 | 8 min read

AI planning does not fail in the model. It fails in the meeting.

Most AI planning pilots do not fail because the model is weak. They fail because the planning cycle has not clarified ownership, constraints, and decision timing.

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