Customer-driven planning puts APS value back inside constraints

Arkieva published an article arguing that customer-driven planning depends on connected planning foundations, scenario intelligence and AI/ML that works inside real supply-chain constraints rather than as a feature layered onto existing planning logic. The useful signal is not Arkieva’s vendor positioning; it is the argument that planning modernization should be judged by whether it reflects operational constraints early enough to change decisions. For APS buyers, this keeps the evaluation focus on executable decisions rather than interface-level AI claims.