How much inventory should you carry? 8 weeks feels ‘safe’, right? Maybe 10?I did not come into demand/supply planning with formal training in supply chain formulas - I was a political science major in …

Controversial opinion alert: If monthly S&OP feels like torture - you might want to consider doing it weekly.What? Insanity! In fact, many Operations leaders we talk to say they want to reduce S&OP frequency …

How’s your relationship with your planning spreadsheet? If you’re like almost every planner we talk to, it’s probably a love-hate relationship. Most high growth brands plan supply and demand on a spreadsheet. Typically a …

You’re not alone. Many of the people we talk to are scarred from unending ERP implementations, and in our space, it’s common to feel skeptical about whether new software can truly capture all the …

“That’s the best we can do for forecast accuracy - and this is really overfitting it”“Ok then. I guess we’re all getting fired”It was late 2017, in less than a year we would be …

Food rots while apparel goes out of style  - a simple difference that drives totally different inventory planning needs. For planners who cut their teeth in apparel before joining food & beverage companies, the …

For most companies, inventory management starts simple - a few spreadsheets to track stock levels and do basic forecasting.  But as your business grows more complex, maintaining those worksheets becomes a full-time job (in …

All physical goods companies have the same operating model: they procure goods, find customers, and sell finished goods to those customers. True, no company is the same. There are so many differences - in …

Revenue and inventory have a love-hate relationship. ‘You can’t sell what you don’t have’ is the reality of physical product companies.  So naturally Boards, Executives and sales teams push to maximize stocking levels. This …

Atomic operates from the unit level of demand and supply in a powerful, simulation-based model of the business. The Atomic system incorporates three core modules - Demand, Supply, and Finance. Each module operates at …