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When promos or big orders hit, sales, planning, and purchasing each quote different ATP—and meetings become shouting matches. Freeze one ATP definition first so shock can be scheduled, not yelled onto the line.
Every extra field is another leak surface. Collect, expose, and retain employee and customer data on minimum necessary—by role and by term—or compliance stays in the policy manual only.
Chat-only assistants quickly hit permission and accountability walls. To put AI in workflows, give it roles, callable tools, and replayable audit on every step—not a bigger dialog box.
SMEs rarely hire a full-stack digital unicorn. Instead of an empty seat waiting for a savior, split roles: business product owner, IT for stability, external experts by scenario. Cannot hire one person—a combo can still leave capability behind.
Acceptance that only checks login and reports stops at go-live ceremony. Compare yield, on-time delivery, and inventory to baseline—or operations never accepts the investment.
A planner's day lives in group chats—shortages from warehouse, rush orders from sales, substitutes from engineering. Without one workbench, planning follows whoever shouts loudest. The workbench must compare trade-offs on one screen, not compare voices.
Rules change while models still use old thresholds—the floor gets two sets of instructions. Business rules and models must take effect the same day to avoid split brain.
Alerts nobody owns—or a hundred per day—both fail. Define anomaly thresholds and definitions first, then assign ten-minute responders. Alerts become management, not noise.
Line takt is measured in milliseconds—if QC asks the cloud every time, the conveyor stops. Latency budget decides edge or cloud, not model size.