A live plan gets checked constantly. The parameters underneath it, safety stock, lead time, MOQ, rarely get checked at all. They were set once, against a version of the business that has since changed shape: new suppliers, different volumes, a shifted product mix. The plan keeps running because someone is quietly correcting it by hand, override by override, and that correction usually isn't visible anywhere that gets reported on. This session starts from the assumption that a lot of "planning inaccuracy" isn't a forecasting problem at all. It's an unmaintained parameter problem wearing a forecasting problem's clothes.
This meeting is designed for people working through real operational and innovation decisions, rather than those seeking presentations or general inspiration.
Supply chain and planning leaders, Director to VP, who own or sit close to a live planning process and suspect the plan is being held together by manual corrections rather than the system doing what it's meant to. Useful if the same overrides keep recurring and nobody's quite sure why.
Vendors and consultants selling parameter-tuning tools or APS software. Practitioners without visibility into why overrides happen, who'd get more from a different session. Anyone after a specific system or product recommendation rather than a look at what's underneath the numbers.
Each session is designed as an online equivalent of a small, in-room roundtable discussion — not a passive, webinar-style presentation.
The format adapts to the topic and the experience in the room:
To support productive dialogue, we often invite a subject-matter expert to join the session. This may be someone from a vendor, consultancy, or independent background — sometimes from within the community, sometimes external.
Their role is not to pitch or present a solution. Instead, they listen carefully to the discussion and reflect back:
This balance is deliberate. Without it, sessions can drift into abstract debate or problem-sharing. With it, discussions stay grounded and participants leave with tangible ideas they can apply in their own context.
The emphasis throughout is on shared learning, practical insight, and forward progress, rather than polished presentations or predetermined answers.
