Listener questions

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Got a planning challenge, topic request, or burning question from the shop floor? Drop it here. Every question is read personally, and the sharpest ones get answered on air.

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We love the hard ones

The questions that get featured are the ones that feel too specific to answer. The ones where you think nobody else will get this. They will.

  • Real situations from the floor, not hypotheticals
  • Specific constraints and context included
  • Questions with no obvious right answer
  • Cross-functional tensions and trade-offs
  • Technology decisions with real stakes

From the listener queue

  • How do you handle a planner who sandbagged capacity for three years?
  • What's the right span of control for a scheduling team at 400 SKUs?
  • Is APS dead or just misunderstood?
  • How do you recover S&OP credibility after a bad quarter?

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