WARNING: “One data model” does not guarantee one governed planning truth

Vendors increasingly promise one data model, connected planning or a digital brain. A technically unified model can still contain conflicting effective dates, unowned parameters and unofficial overrides.

Decisions exposed

• forecast approval;
• inventory and service policies;
• capacity constraints;
• scenario selection;
• cross-functional planning commitments.

What leaders should monitor

• ownership of critical fields and parameters;
• effective dates and lineage;
• approval status and active plan version;
• manual overrides;
• integration between APS, ERP and BI.

Source: Sunstice unified-architecture positioning.