Author: Peter Klausz
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S&OP in Plain English
What sales and operations planning really is, the five steps of a typical monthly cycle, who should be in the room, and the signs that your S&OP process is working.
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Demand Forecasting Basics Every Planner Should Know
The building blocks of demand forecasting: patterns in the data, simple methods that work, how to measure accuracy and bias, and habits that make forecasts more useful.
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Tariff Exposure: A Supplier Risk Checklist for Manufacturers
A ten-step, non-legal checklist for mapping tariff exposure across your supplier base, sizing it in dollars, and building a practical response plan with your broker and trade counsel.
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Safety Stock and Reorder Points: A Practical Guide
The standard safety stock and reorder point formulas, explained in plain English with fully worked examples, a short Python function, and the mistakes I see most often.
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How I Use AI to Build Supply Chain Software
My practical workflow for building supply chain tools in Python and SQL with Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini, with the guardrails that keep the output correct and the data safe.