Almond Cooperative Supply Chain Planning: Commit Immediately to a Global Integrated Platform, or First Establish a Reversible Supply-Demand Evidence Baseline?
Current product policyLast updated September 30, 2026
Recommend first establishing a time-boxed, stoppable supply-demand data and forecasting evidence baseline, and locking in the scope of the first integration phase; since the root cause (data definitions/quality/process/model/ownership) has not yet been pinpointed, committing directly to a global platform would lock in unvalidated assumptions, whereas the evidence-baseline path preserves the ability to reverse course and aligns with the committee's requirement for reversibility
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The supply-demand planning team, together with the commercial operations team, should set a time-boxed root-cause diagnosis and data-ownership inventory plan, with clearly defined stop/expand thresholds to report back to the committee
What would reverse the recommendation
If the evidence baseline confirms the root cause is genuinely a systemic breakdown rather than a data-definition or ownership issue, and the scope of shared data between the raw material and consumer product businesses can be clearly defined (U1), and ownership accountability (U3) can also be confirmed, then the reversal is to proceed directly with the global integration platform
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