Operational Planning Health Check
Eight questions to test yourself
How many can you answer with confidence?
01
Do you know, in financial terms, what your planning instability is costing you, in working capital, service failures, and lost margin?
02
Performance is under pressure. But does your organization genuinely agree on why, or is the root cause still being debated?
03
Some sites perform. Others don't. And no one can explain the structural difference. Does that sound familiar?
04
Your APS was supposed to solve this. Instead it has become a system of overrides and workarounds that nobody fully trusts. How did that happen?
05
Do you have a fact-based view of what is driving your planning performance, or is it mostly assumed?
06
How much working capital are you carrying in inventory buffers that exist purely to compensate for planning instability - and is that number getting bigger?
07
You have improvement initiatives running. But does anyone have a shared, evidence-based view of where the real structural value sits?
08
When planning performance deteriorates, the instinct is to invest in better technology. But if the root cause is a process or governance failure, that investment will not fix it. What are you solving for?
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