Post by Verado Supply Partners

https://lnkd.in/ep385dJN Most mid-market companies have a supply chain data problem they've completely normalized. Sales has one forecast. Operations plans to a different one. Finance budgets to a third. And nobody is in the same room reconciling them. The result is predictable: stockouts on products you should have seen coming, excess inventory on products nobody wanted, and an operations team spending 40% of their week managing exceptions instead of preventing them. According to Jabil's 2025 Supply Chain Resilience Report, only 6% of companies have achieved full end-to-end supply chain visibility. That number is shocking. But it makes sense when you see how most mid-market companies actually run their planning processes. The fix isn't technology. Most of these companies already have SAP, Oracle, or a capable ERP. The fix is a structured demand planning process — one integrated signal that commercial, operations, and finance all commit to. Built, maintained, and challenged by someone who does this professionally. I've spent 10+ years building these systems at Signify, Medtronic, and Hillrom. The companies that invest in demand planning infrastructure don't just reduce stockouts. They free up working capital, improve supplier relationships, and give their leadership teams something they rarely have: confidence in the numbers. If your company has more than one version of the forecast circulating at any given time — that's the problem worth solving first. What does your demand planning process look like right now? I'm curious what's working. — Johanna Camelo, Co-Founder & Head of Intelligence, Verado Supply Partners #DemandPlanning #SupplyChain #SalesAndOperationsPlanning #BusinessIntelligence #MidMarket #VeradoSupplyPartners #USA