GAINS | Supply Chain Planning & Performance Optimization

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...

There are moments when someone outside your organization articulates something you’ve been observing inside it for years. That’s how we felt reading Knut Alicke’s recent Substack, “The Planner Was the System.”

We encourage everyone in the SC community ...

If you’ve spent any time in airline operations, you already know: uptime is everything. But what’s changing now isn’t just the pressure—it’s the way organizations are responding to it.

The aircraft MRO market is undergoing a structural shift toward connected, visibility-first systems. Aviation inventory management software alone is