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Product note · Excel plugin
Why we built an Excel plugin instead of another system
Your ERP and WMS stay. The spreadsheet between them gets an agent. Why Aperture maps the work first, then ships an Excel plugin that reads email and acts.
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Market note · Supply chain planning software
Kinaxis, o9, SAP IBP, Anaplan: why planners still end up in Excel
81.1% of S&OP teams plan in Excel. A comparison of Kinaxis, o9, SAP IBP, and Anaplan, where planners leave each, and why every leader now ships an Excel add-in.
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Field notes · CPG supply chain
Operational debt
Consumer goods companies run on spreadsheets, chat threads, and one person's memory. Field notes on where operational debt accumulates and what it costs.
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Use case 01 · CPG supply chain & S&OP
Find the gap between plan and reality
Plan vs actual variance in S&OP starts in handoffs, not forecasts. See how an as-run workflow map shows where plans break. Book a founder call.
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Use case 02 · Operations & CI
The as-believed map and the as-recorded map
Workshop-built current-state process maps record work as believed. See how as-recorded maps from observed work expose rework and delays. Compare both.
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Use case 03 · CEOs & owners
Make tribal knowledge a company asset
Tribal knowledge walks out the door with the people who hold it. Learn how to capture how work actually runs and keep it as a company asset.
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Use case 04 · Private equity
Ground truth on every portfolio company
See how a portfolio company actually runs. Aperture maps real workflows and prices the improvement backlog for your 100-day plan. Book a call.
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Use case 05 · ERP, AI & transformation programs
Fund the right builds. Kill the rest.
Workshops and system logs miss the work between systems. Build an evidence-based as-is process baseline for ERP stage-gate decisions.
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Use case 06 · SI & consulting partners
Walk in with the artifact, not a workshop
How SI and consulting teams compress the ERP discovery phase with recorded evidence and scope proposals against the client's real process.
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Market memo · 2026
The Transformation Stack
How we read the market, where we play, and why Layer 4 is unclaimed.
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