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Spend analysis: your purchasing data should come with a next move
Spend analysis should lead to a purchasing decision. Explore contract leakage, supplier concentration and transparent opportunity scenarios in an interactive dashboard built with synthetic data.
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Europe Has Some of the World’s Best Forecasting Models. Demand Planners Should Pay Attention.
Timestral, t0-gamma, and TiRex-2 show why demand planners should follow time series foundation models:…
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Europe May Be Quietly Winning a Different AI Race: Forecasting the Future
While the world watches the chatbot race, European teams are building powerful AI models…
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Forecasting & Demand Planning
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Europe Has Some of the World’s Best Forecasting Models. Demand Planners Should Pay Attention.
Timestral, t0-gamma, and TiRex-2 show why demand planners should follow time series foundation models: richer inputs, forecasts without task-specific retraining, and a more useful view of uncertainty.
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Europe May Be Quietly Winning a Different AI Race: Forecasting the Future
While the world watches the chatbot race, European teams are building powerful AI models for a less glamorous and remarkably important problem: forecasting what happens next.
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Six Times They Tried to Prove Sophistication Wins
Forty years of open forecasting competitions, and the winner’s margin over a dumb average stayed thin. Then M6 asked whether accuracy makes money. The correlation was 0.04.
Supply Chain Operations
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What Shape Is Your Plant? In Two of the Four, Your Bottleneck Lies
Every factory game teaches you the slowest machine sets the pace. None teach you that in a V-plant, the trunk can run at 100% and convert every unit…
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$9 Billion for Nothing: the Stealth AI Bet That Reaches Your Loading Dock
Six labs most supply chain professionals have never heard of have raised $15.56 billion. 58% of it went to two labs that have shipped nothing at all.
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I Let AI Agents Play a 5-Year Beer Game: Why Sharing Data Beat Buying a Smarter Model
I ran the classic Beer Game for 260 weeks with AI agents in the chairs. Giving the chain real customer demand cut in-game cost by up to 40…
Procurement & Sourcing
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Spend analysis: your purchasing data should come with a next move
Spend analysis should lead to a purchasing decision. Explore contract leakage, supplier concentration and transparent opportunity scenarios in an interactive dashboard built with synthetic data.
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Four Kinds of Weird in Your Price File: EUR 43,017 of Negotiating Room
A supplier asked for 20.4%. The published indices supported 2.3%. Here is the R workbench that found the gap, and the three things it honestly could not find.
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Your Supplier Isn’t Offering a Discount. They’re Offering You 29.8%
The price-break EOQ math says buy 600 units instead of 87 and save $6,566 a year. Then a carrying rate above 29.8% flips the answer. Here are the…
Strategy & Leadership
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The Algorithm and the Skunk Works: It’s Latency, Not Size, That Kills Innovation
Kelly Johnson built jets in a tent in 143 days. Sixty years later Elon Musk landed rockets with almost the same rulebook. Neither copied the other, and the…
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Four Masters, One Boardroom: A 2,500-Year Operating System for Strategy
Four dead strategists, one boardroom, roughly 2,500 years of canon. Here is the four-layer model that stacks them, and the verified reading list to build it yourself.
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Of the Fox and the Lion: Coercion, Cunning, and Modern Power
Machiavelli’s Chapter 17 and 18 are routinely misread. Force without cunning is brittle. Bonds of love break under stress. Here is what actually holds.
AI & Data Science
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Demand Genie: The Planning Dashboard That Passed the Math and Failed the Smell Test
I built an offline planning workbench with forecasts, DDMRP, and procurement views. Then one perfectly correct chart exposed a flaw in its synthetic data. Try the dashboard and…
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Your Demand Chart Hid a 132-Unit Problem. The FT’s Chart Rules Catch It
Four datasets can share the same summary statistics and still tell four different stories. So can your SKU history. Here is how to name the relationship in your…
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AI Model Distillation, Explained: The Compression Trick Behind the $589 Billion Monday
A single Chinese app knocked $589 billion off Nvidia in one day. The trick behind the panic has a boring name and a fascinating story.