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Why Your ABC-XYZ Analysis Is Quietly Mislabelling Your Best Products ABC-XYZ analysis has been a cornerstone of demand planning for nearly a century. ABC classification ranks products by revenue contribution. XYZ attempts to classify demand variability using a single, familiar metric - the Coefficient of Variation (CV). It is quick, intuitive, and widely taught. It is also quietly getting some of your most forecastable products wrong. At Valtitude, we work with planning teams

Service Failure Root Causes: Look Beyond OTIF, Case Fill, and Perfect Order Every supply chain leader celebrates the same metric. Few of them even understand it! When a board asks, "how are we serving our customers?", the answer comes back as a single number — Case Fill, OTIF, Perfect Order. Green dashboard. Smile. Move on. But a single number is a verdict, not a diagnosis. 🔍 When that number slips — and it always does — the organization reaches for the same three tired leve

Most supply chain teams have dashboards. Few have control towers that actually decide what happens next. This post breaks down a real-time snapshot from PlanVida.AI's Inventory Control Tower — $24.7M in inventory, 12 out-of-stock SKUs, 61 days on hand against a 45-day target, and a service level still short of 95%. Category by category, here's what the data is telling you and how a decisional control tower turns that signal into action — automatically.

Demand Supply IO balancing Act with Planvida and Valtitude!

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