Aperture for consumer goods

Your supply chain runs on Excel.Map how it actually plans.

Demand calls, PO chasing, forecast overrides — the planning work that never shows up in the system of record. Aperture observes it, maps it, and turns it into evidence you can build on.

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Planning doesn't happen where the systems say it does.

The tools get implemented. The work stays in spreadsheets, meetings, and one planner's head. The market data:

32%

of planners actually migrate to the planning tool their company implemented

Gartner 2024 SCP Summit · via Lokad

2/3

of S&OP meetings end as status reviews, not decisions

McKinsey · 170+ companies over 5 years

75%

of statistical forecasts still get adjusted by hand

Fildes & Goodwin · IJF, 60,000+ forecasts

67.4%

of executives count Excel as a supply chain system

BluJay / Adelante SCM survey of 140 executives

What the map unlocks

Map the planning work once. Then decide.

IBP · APS · S&OP

Planning-tool rollouts that stick

Before you implement (or re-implement) a planning system, map how planning is actually done — the spreadsheets, the overrides, the emails between demand and supply. Build for the real process, not the documented one.

PO chasing · forecast touch-ups

Automation where the hours are

The repetitive work — chasing open POs, adjusting forecasts, reconciling sheets — is exactly what agents can take over, once the workflow and its exceptions are captured as evidence.

PE owners · operators

The operating picture

For owners of consumer-goods companies: see how the supply chain really runs — which processes depend on one person's Excel, and what that means before you invest, integrate, or exit.

Start with one process — the one that lives in somebody's spreadsheet.

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Or read the field notes first: Operational debt in CPG supply chains