GAINS executive and industry visionary to discuss the role of decision engineering and orchestration to support the supply chains of the future
ORLANDO, Fla., May 5, 2025 –At a time when traditional supply chain models are no longer keeping pace with today’s disruptions, GAINSystems is calling for a fundamental redefinition of how businesses plan and operate during the Gartner Supply Chain SymposiumXpo, taking place today through May 7th. The event is the premier gathering of trailblazers, thought leaders and industry experts pushing the boundaries of supply chain.
GAINS Chairman and supply chain visionary Art Mesher will present a bold new framework in his presentation. “Process-oriented supply chains are stuck,” said Mesher. “We need a new reference model—one that connects strategic intent to operational action, dynamically, intelligently, and continuously.” Unveiled during Mesher’s Tuesday session, this new model—emphasizes Decision Engineering as the connective tissue that aligns planning across all horizons. This “Decisioning Model” framework is a composable, outcome-driven model designed for resilience, adaptability, and continuous optimization. It replaces rigid workflows and siloed systems with modular capabilities that can adapt as market conditions shift and technology evolves.
In his presentation, Mesher will challenge the outdated software planning paradigms used today and explore why the traditional model is nearing extinction. The company will host an interactive simulation in booth 339 demonstrating the real-world impact of decision engineering. The tool will model the effects of changing lead times, demand variability and other critical variables.
“Today’s volatile business environment requires partners and tools that can scale, compose and evolve quickly,” said Mesher. “It’s time for the industry to move away from static processes to modular, adaptive decision making that leverages AI/ML as a tool to drive outcomes and results faster and better.”
At the show, GAINS will also present a real world design engineering and optimization use case with customer Continental Battery. The case study exemplifies this next-generation, innovative approach that transformed Continental Battery’s supply Chain. With GAINS DEO, Continental Battery reduced inventory by 40 percent while increasing service levels.
About GAINS DEO:
The GAINS DEO Decision Engineering and Orchestration Platform combines data and decision science into a unified platform that allows users to tailor decision-making with proper risk assessment. Solutions can be delivered in composed or preconfigured Results NowSM solution sets, ranging from small to large compositions for integrated processes and automated decisioning, solving a class of problems, or as broader end-to-end business transformation set.
About GAINS
At GAINS, we help customers keep their promises by democratizing supply chain planning. The GAINS Supply Chain Performance Optimization Platform helps businesses large and small Move Forward FasterSM with greater agility, resilience, confidence, and sustainability. Helping customers make better decisions, the GAINS AI-driven cloud platform delivers continuous cost and profit optimization via machine learning, proven algorithms, and actionable analytics for global manufacturing, distribution, retail, and service parts/maintenance operations. Innovative design combined with the GAINS Proven-Path-to-Performance (P3)SM methodology enables rapid onboarding, increased sales, inventory turns, and service levels with reduced operating costs. GAINS proudly provides digital supply chain planning expertise to industry leaders like Graybar, Honda Motors, Home Depot, L’Oréal, Stuller, and Textron Aviation. GAINS customers span the globe, including deployments in North America, Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, and Australia/New Zealand. For more information, visit www.gainsystems.com.
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