08Insights

Field notes from inside the programme.

What breaks in an APS rollout, where S&OP and S&OE hand off badly, and how AI earns its place in a delivery plan. Written from live engagements, not from a framework deck.

4 August 20263 min read

What actually breaks in an OMP OPR rollout

Five failure modes I have watched sink OMP OPR implementations across APAC, EU and North America — and what the delivery plan should have said instead.

OMPAPS ImplementationDelivery

21 July 20263 min read

Why grounded retrieval beats a bigger model for supply chain incident triage

Building an AI triage agent on a historical incident repository cut P3/P4 resolution time by 14%. The design decisions that mattered had almost nothing to do with model choice.

RAGAI AgentsApplied AI

7 July 20262 min read

S&OP vs S&OE: where the handoff actually fails

Most organisations design S&OP and S&OE as separate processes and then discover the gap between them at month end. What that gap looks like, and how to close it.

S&OPS&OEProcess Design