Practical writing on demand forecasting, inventory and S&OP — the same thinking behind the Health Check.
Most planning teams let humans adjust the statistical forecast every cycle and never check whether those adjustments help. Often they don't. Here's how to prove it, in one number.
If your S&OP meeting spends most of its time reviewing what already happened, it isn't an S&OP meeting — it's a status report. What a decision-driven review looks like instead.
Slow-moving share, coverage spread, and forecast bias — read together, they tell you whether your problem is the plan or the execution.