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2026 Inventory-Planning Review Shows Automation Shifting From Forecasting to Replenishment Decisions

Slimstock brings next-generation AI planning focus to SAPICS 2026

Amart replaces legacy planning with AI-driven forecasting and replenishment

AGR compares the 2026 inventory-planning market as companies move beyond spreadsheets and basic ERP

Flowlity positions probabilistic planning as an alternative to Excel-based workflows

Lokad continues to challenge forecast-centric planning with probabilistic and financially prioritized decisions

Vekia reinforces automatic replenishment as a concrete AI planning use case for retail

REMIRA positions AI-powered inventory and supply chain software for European planning teams

Nissin Foods moves from spreadsheet forecasting to integrated AI planning

Enmovil raises $6 million to scale AI supply chain planning and visibility

NEC launches cross-system SCM AI Agent for forecasting, procurement and planning

ISG sees rising AI investment in forecasting and scenario planning

US Defense Logistics Agency applies Nicolas Vandeput’s demand-forecasting framework

Alain Matar and SupChains collaborate on a planner-facing forecasting application

Atlas Copco moves to probability-based supply-chain planning with ToolsGroup

Slimstock customer Freedom of Movement uses AI-powered planning for retail growth

Sandman connects AI pricing with forecasting and replenishment in RELEX

Frutura selects RELEX for near-real-time fresh-produce forecasting

Flowlity Introduces Forecast Studio to Make AI Demand Forecasts More Transparent

Aptean brings prebuilt planning agents to Logility DemandAI+

Community Coffee selects RELEX for unified demand, inventory and S&OP planning

Anora reports channel-level forecasting gains with RELEX

Nissin Foods deploys AI-powered demand and supply planning

BISSELL accelerates end-to-end supply chain planning with o9 Solutions

RELEX highlights AI planning breadth in Nucleus SCP Value Matrix

SKU Science keeps lightweight demand planning relevant for SMB and e-commerce teams

GEPP replaces legacy planning with an AI-driven RELEX platform

Aptean brings Logility DemandAI+ agentic AI to supply chain planning

RELEX report: AI moves into core supply chain decisions as volatility persists

Amart Furniture replaces legacy planning with RELEX

Associate Director, Demand Planning & Purchasing

Network Deployment Refresh Planner I

Supply Chain Planning Engineer

Senior Service Parts Forecasting Manager

Category Planner — Central Hub

Associate Director — Planning System Lead

Inventory Planning Assistant Manager / Staff

Associate Director — Global Oncology Forecasting and Analytics

Manager, Supply Planning

PPO Supply Chain Planning — Sales Forecast

Global Process Owner — Sales and Operations Planning

Finance Business Manager — Supply Chain

Senior Specialist, Supply Chain Automation and Demand Planning

Solution Lead — Plan to Forecast

Specialist Supply Chain Analyst — Forecasting & Supply Planning, Data & AI

Demand & Inventory Planner – Food Import & Trading

Demand Planning & AI Solutions Specialist

Demand Planner

AVS Instock Specialist

Senior Solution Architect — Demand Planning & Forecasting

Executive — Demand Planning

Demand Plan & Orders Scheduling Analyst

Supply Chain Planning Manager

Manager / Senior Manager, Supply Chain AI-Driven Planning Advisory

Demand Planner

Principal Engineer — Supply Chain Planning

ICQA Area Manager, Inventory Control and Quality Assurance

Technical Product Owner — Plan

Lead Project Control

Operations Manager

EVENT: Sunstice to host webinar on touchless demand planning and Agentic AI

EVENT: Algo Hosts “The Trillion-Dollar Forecast” Webinar on Forecasting as a Scenario Tool

EVENT: IBF Examines AI Proof of Value in Forecasting and Demand Planning

EVENT: Manufacturing NEXT Tokyo closes with planning and AI-agent tools

WARNING: AI alone cannot run inventory planning without human decision controls

EVENT: AI-based demand forecasting in manufacturing course starts

EVENT: Alteryx examines the data foundation for AI supply-chain planning

EVENT: ISF 2026 brings forecasting research and practice together in Montreal

EVENT: IBF AI Edge focuses on supply-chain planning and forecasting

EVENT: IBF workshop tests AI proof of value for forecasting and demand planning

EVENT: Supply Chain & AI Event highlights practical forecasting, automation and agent use cases

EVENT: Slimstock User Day covers supply, demand, inventory and production planning

EVENT: Advanced demand-planning and forecasting programme opens

WARNING: Unexplained AI Forecasts Can Create Inventory and Capacity Decision Risk

EVENT: Manufacturers review supply-chain resilience strategies

EVENT: ASCM and IBF Best of the Best S&OP Conference returns to Chicago in June 2026

NOMINATION: o9 Solutions promotes Ashwin Rao to CTO as APEX becomes its AI planning bet

EVENT: On-demand webinar — Demand Planning in 100 Days

EVENT: Supply Chain Village Roundtable Questions Whether APS Remain Best Placed to Reduce Inventory Without Hurting Service Levels

EVENT: Hidden AI supply chain risks move into the planning governance agenda

WARNING: Frontloaded ocean shipping makes late-summer demand signals harder to read

WARNING: Canadian factories stockpile as delivery times deteriorate

EVENT: CII programme covers AI-driven intelligent supply-chain management

WARNING: Agentic AI supply chain software spend is projected to surge, raising governance pressure

EVENT: How I vibe-coded my Advanced Planning System

EVENT: o9 examines revenue-growth planning under persistent demand volatility

EVENT: Bosch demonstrates AI-based inventory intelligence for MRO and production materials

WARNING: AI planning can scale semantic fragmentation if data meaning is not governed

RISK: Autonomous supply-chain workflows can bypass the approval architecture

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

Forecast vs. actual: why protocol design breaks clinical supply plans

Why cumulative and lag-one forecasts matter for inventory decisions

Category planning is policy governance—not spreadsheet maintenance

Lessons from VN2, the first global inventory-planning competition

Forecasts Predict Demand; Demand Plans Translate It Into Action

Tillamook turns supply-chain planning into a growth capability

Nicolas Vandeput on machine learning, inventory simulation and planner roles

Forecast accuracy is an input to the decision—not the business outcome

Lead-time forecasting should produce a probability distribution—not a single ERP parameter

Demand planning, supply planning and customer service may converge into one customer-facing role

Always-on demand forecasting changes the infrastructure assumptions behind planning AI

Logility white paper reframes demand planning around AI, sensing and explainable forecasts

Is MAPE Still the Right Forecast Accuracy Metric for Demand Planning?

From Forecast Accuracy to Connected AI-Assisted Planning in CPG

Amazon moves demand forecasting from specialized models toward a reusable forecasting foundation model

AI is moving supply-chain planning from prediction to automatic replanning

US Manufacturers Front-Load Orders While Factory Employment Falls

Forecast Value Added Turns Planner Overrides into a Measurable Governance Process

Ganacos Links Demand Planning Performance to Data Quality, Cross-Functional Ownership and Scenario Governance

Mid-market planning vendors are converging on the same AI narrative—but not the same architecture

Erik Bush reframes the trillion-dollar inventory problem as an operating-model failure

Forecast variability: when human enrichment destabilizes planning

Komugi Links Month-End Forecast Reliability to Material Availability, Capacity and Workforce Flexibility

Forecast overrides are a governance problem, not only a forecasting problem

The inventory-planning platform is not the operating model

Buffers Are Not Forecasts: Understanding Their Role in Inventory Decisions

David Simchi-Levi’s 2026 research shows how information delays shape forecastability and inventory cost

AI begins taking on merchandising, assortment and vendor decisions

DataLeo sees demand planning roles shifting toward hybrid business-and-data profiles

Using confirmed future orders to improve chemical demand forecasting

Build a Governed AI Forecast Review Workflow Before Connecting AI to Your Planning System

Build an AI-assisted demand forecast in IBM Planning Analytics

Experiment: Build a Supply Chain as a Service company with OpenOPC

Supply Chain Outlier Detection 101: Build a simple demand-sensing review team with AI agents

22 practical Data Science projects for Supply Chain teams

Create a Decision and Permission Matrix for Supply Chain Planning Agents

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Demand Solutions

Streamline

frePPLe

EazyStock

AGR

Workday Adaptive Planning

ToolsGroup

Intuendi

Prediko

Jedox

Slimstock

Infor Supply Chain Planning

Afresh

Daybreak

StockIQ Technologies

Netstock

Autone

DeepVu

REMIRA

Flowlity

DataRobot

Vekia

SKU Science

FuturMaster

SymphonyAI Retail CPG

Logility

Arkieva

Lokad

Institute of Business Forecasting and Planning

EyeOn

Alain Matar

Nicolas Vandeput

Stephane Leclercq

Thomas Barciet

Arnaud Morvan

Jonathon Karelse

Eric Wilson

Conor E. Doherty

Adde Jans

Joannes Vermorel

Mark Sawaya

Zac Rogers

Chris Caplice

Damien Portmann