How to improve Supply Chain efficiency?

Improving Supply Chain efficiency starts with better decision-making. This includes improving forecast accuracy with AI, using optimization instead of static rules, aligning KPIs with decisions, and continuously adapting plans based on real data and constraints. The KPI alignment step is often the most overlooked. When teams are measured on forecast accuracy alone, they optimize a number that does not always translate into service level or working capital improvements. Tying KPIs directly to the decisions they should drive, replenishment, allocation, capacity, ensures that better data and better models actually produce better outcomes, rather than improvements that exist only in the dashboard but not in the operation.