Trick or Transform: Facing the Frights of Modern Supply Chains

It’s that spooky time of year again — and if you work in supply chain, you don’t need ghosts or goblins to keep you up at night.

The real terrors are hiding in your data, your planning cycles, and your supplier network.

Each of these challenges can quietly haunt performance if not addressed — but with the right strategy, they don’t have to be scary. Here’s what today’s supply chain leaders are facing, and how GAINS helps them stay one step ahead.

1. The Never-Ending Storm of Volatility

Disruptions used to be rare. Now they’re the forecast.

With 92% of supply chain leaders reporting higher disruption frequency year over year and supplier lead times up 40%, it’s clear this isn’t a passing storm — it’s the climate we live in.^{1, 8}

GAINS’ Decision Engineering platform enables you to anticipate rather than react. Through simulation, predictive modeling, and optimization, GAINS helps planners see disruptions coming and pivot quickly — before the tornado touches down.

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2. Broken Decision Pathways

Planning cycles are shrinking while uncertainty grows. 80% of leaderssay decision quality is declining, and 40% of planning effort is wasted reconciling conflicting data.^{2, 3}

That’s enough to make any planner scream.

By unifying data, planning, and execution decisions within one connected platform, GAINS helps organizations repave that road — creating faster, more accurate, and more trusted pathways from insight to action. Unified AI and data drive five times faster decisions and up to 12% margin improvement.⁴

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3. Disconnected Systems and Data Silos

Nearly 70% of enterprises still rely on disconnected tools, leading to data delays and misalignment across teams. The potential for orchestration exists — but many organizations can’t yet see the full spectrum.⁵

GAINS integrates decisions across horizons — from long-term design to daily operations — to create a unified, composable architecture. The result: 15–20% lower cost-to-serve, fewer stockouts, and clearer visibility across the value chain.⁶

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4. The Unfulfilled Promise of AI

While 84% of enterprises say they’re using generative AI, only 11% have seen measurable ROI. The promise is big — but so is the gap between ambition and impact.⁷

GAINS doesn’t chase shiny tools — it engineers decisions. Our platform blends AI, data science, and operations research into one analytical fabric, augmenting human judgment rather than replacing it.

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