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than months, explore the impact of changes and align finance, operations and strategy around the same set of evidence-led data.
Keeping pace with business ambition
The final drawback of static tools is that they offer no foresight. Spreadsheets can’ t predict the impact of a hypothetical future scenario, but simulation can. For example, a shortage in transport capacity, perhaps due to macroeconomic factors beyond an organization’ s control, might lead to poor customer service. This can be accounted for in the simulation, thereby alerting stakeholders to the issue, allowing revised approaches to be tested in order to protect customer service.
As the unpredictability of global disruption accelerates, manufacturing supply chains can no longer afford to rely on rigid, retrospective tools. Simulation-based digital world complexity of operations, expose hidden constraints, quantify trade-offs and enable structural experimentation.
Instead of optimizing within static guardrails, leaders can use this visibility to question policies, validate strategies before implementation and align decisions across teams. The result is a supply chain capable of keeping pace with business ambition. It’ s built to adapt, not just react. ■
Will Lovatt www. kallikor. ai
Will Lovatt is Chief Revenue Officer at Kallikor. Kallikor enables enterprise supply chains to move from static planning to dynamic, simulation-led design. Its platform empowers teams to model complexity, test ideas safely, and unlock high-impact improvements faster and with greater confidence, leading to better decisions, reduced costs, and supply chains that adapt in real-time to shifting business needs. twins are living models that mirror the realmanufacturing-today. com 13