GAINS | Supply Chain Planning & Performance Optimization

Effective supply chain design is what separates companies that absorb disruption from companies that get blindsided by it. The networks that handle tariff swings, supplier outages, and demand shocks without service collapse aren’t lucky — they’re designed for the conditions they’re operating in. The ones that scramble every quarter are running networks they inherited and neve...

Managing AI-fueled inventory tracking with spreadsheets limits your ability to proactively address increasingly complex inventory challenges. The shift from manual methods to AI and machine learning in inventory optimization is no longer experimental at the leading edge of supply chain operations. It’s the structural change separating companies that absorb tariff volatility a...

The filing is the easy part.

U.S. Customs opened the refund window on April 20. An estimated $175 billion in duties, collected from more than 300,000 importers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) authorities, is now, in principle, recoverable. Importers who were already registered for AC...

Supply chain design used to be something you revisited every few years—during a major network shift, merger, or cost crisis. You’d pull together a team, build a model, run a handful of scenarios, and lock in decisions that were supposed to hold for the next 3–5 years.

That playbook doesn’t hold anymore.

Volatility isn’t episodic; it’s structural. Lead time...

Supply chains today are under constant pressure—and not just from one direction. Demand volatility, geopolitical disruptions, shifting tariffs, labor shortages, transportation constraints, and rising customer expectations are all hitting at once. What used to be the occasional disruption is now part of normal operations.

For supp...