A half-day session for COOs, VPs of Operations and Heads of Planning. Identify the planning decisions that quietly cost you the most - and the analytics & AI levers that actually fix them.
Service misses, stranded inventory, last-minute reschedules, overtime, lost sales, perpetual firefighting. The cost rarely sits in one decision - it accumulates across hundreds of small ones, every week, in every plant and every planner's spreadsheet. This session finds where yours leaks, separates the decisions where analytics & AI genuinely move the needle from the ones that don't, and gives you a roadmap to act on it.
Tools have multiplied. Plan quality hasn't. We'll separate what's a tool problem from what's a process or governance problem - and where AI is the only realistic way to make the call at the scale you're working at.
Forecasting is an input to a decision, not the decision. We'll look at how plans actually get made - and where analytics & AI turn better numbers into better calls (and where they quietly don't).
The tension between plan stability and response speed is where most planners burn out. We'll map where to absorb variability - and where AI-driven re-planning is the only way to react in hours instead of weeks.
Built for companies with real industrial planning complexity - process manufacturing, discrete production, and consumer goods operations where supply, capacity and demand collide weekly. Capped at 10 companies so every conversation stays specific.
You own the planning architecture and absorb its consequences - service, inventory, capacity, cash. The opportunity here is a redesign that makes Monday-morning decisions noticeably better.
Highly RecommendedYou live inside the cycle. You see every override, every escalation, every plan-versus-actual gap. This session turns that ground truth into a prioritised redesign plan.
Highly RecommendedYou sit at the seam between commercial, supply and operations - where decision rights blur and trade-offs get decided by whoever shouts loudest. That seam is where most cost hides.
RecommendedMany planning problems aren't AI problems - they're process, governance, data, or decision-rights problems wearing an AI costume. But some genuinely are: decisions with too many variables, too short a window, or too much variability for a human to weigh well. SHAiPE separates the two, then shows you which lever - redesign, optimisation, automation, or AI decision support - actually pays back fastest.
Capped at 10 companies. We turn applicants away when the room is right - not for false scarcity, but because diluting the group destroys the value for everyone.