Supply Chain Planning Is Collapsing Into Execution and That Changes the Software Stack

Executive thesis. The traditional separation between planning and execution is becoming structurally obsolete. Competitive advantage is shifting from producing a better periodic plan to shortening the cycle from operating signal to decision to executable response.
Periodic planning is giving way to continuous decision cycles
The legacy model assumed that supply chain planning was organized around periodic cycles: assemble the data, produce a forecast, optimize a plan, publish it, and then let ex