Blogs

March 15, 2026

Knut Alicke has spent 30 years at McKinsey closely watching supply chain transformations succeed and fail. His conclusion: 70% fail not because of bad algorithms, but because companies chase performance while ignoring the fundamentals. In this episode, he explains why master data, brilliant basics, and incremental change beat AI every time.

March 21, 2026

Frank Binder has spent 20 years navigating supply chains where a wrong SKU doesn't just waste inventory, but can violate regulations. In this episode, he shares how pharmaceutical planners build forecast reliability through structured collaboration, global process standardization, and a control tower that actually works.

March 11, 2026

Nicolas Vandeput has spent a decade watching supply chain teams make the same mistake: choosing forecasts they can explain over forecasts that are actually accurate. In this episode, he makes the case for machine learning done right, and explains why the planner's job gets better, not smaller, when algorithms take over the numbers.

March 2, 2026

Horizon Solutions enters its next growth phase with the addition of Dirk Van Ginderachter as third co-founder and a joint €600,000 investment by the founders.

January 19, 2026

Supply chain planning software didn’t become complex overnight. To understand where planning software needs to go next, we first need to understand how it got here.

December 5, 2025

AI in supply chain planning is often misunderstood. This article breaks down machine learning, optimization, LLMs, and automation, and explains where each truly helps planners.

December 12, 2025

Discover how AI enhances demand planning with best-fit models and machine learning, improving forecast accuracy and reducing forecast error.

June 3, 2025

Understand how forecast accuracy, bias, and forecast value add (FVA) can be measured.

December 2, 2025

Highlights from the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit 2025: AI in planning, IBP ownership, data challenges, and the future role of human planners.