Supply Chain · The Operations Section
Zuloma / Supply Chain
§ 01 · Tools, planning, S&OP, transformations
On planning what we can't predict.
Notes from fourteen years inside supply-chain transformations — the tools, the failures, the slow-burning truths the demos don't show. SAP IBP, o9, Kinaxis, OMP, S&OP, careers, and the gap between forecast and reality.
Read the index ↓4 essays · ~94 min total · since 2026
Demand · Forecast vs Actual · last 24 months
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May 20, 2026 · Issue 014
Essay · Supply Chain
The S&OP meeting that nobody owns, the operations view.
Sales & Operations Planning fails not because of bad data or the wrong software. It fails because the meeting on the calendar and the actual decision-making happen in different rooms.
Read the essay →·Tools cited: SAP IBP, o9, Kinaxis
All essays in this section.
- 01S&OP · ToolsThe S&OP meeting that nobody ownsMay 2017 min →
- 02Transformation · ToolsIBP rollout, month 18: what we got wrongMay 2019 min →
- 03S&OP · ToolsThe Bullwhip Effect: how a small demand shift becomes supply-chain chaosMay 128 min →
- 04ToolsSAP IBP, o9, Kinaxis — what the demos don't show youApr 1128 min →
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The Supply Chain section is Zuloma's working journal on planning, tools, and transformation — written from inside the room, not from the conference deck. Every essay is reported, tested against real rollouts, and rewritten until the argument earns its length.
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