In 2025, the conversation around supply chain planning became more pragmatic. Less theory, fewer buzzwords, and a sharper focus on what works when conditions change. The blog posts that stood out this year reflected that shift, addressing real constraints, real trade-offs and the day-to-day decisions planning teams are accountable for.
This roundup brings together Arkieva’s most impactful blogs published in 2025, selected for the engagement they generated and the relevance they continue to hold for organizations navigating complexity with intention.
1. What the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant Means for Supply Chain Planners
This post breaks down what the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant signals for supply chain planners.
Beyond logos and positioning, it explains how evaluation criteria like execution, vision and adaptability map to real-world planning challenges. The article helps planners cut through the noise and understand what matters most when assessing planning solutions: flexibility, time-to-value and the ability to handle real operational complexity.
2. Demand Planning Best Practices: Practical Advice for Harmonizing Demand and Supply
Effective demand planning creates alignment, clarity, and momentum across the business. This post highlights best practices that help teams proactively balance demand and supply, even as conditions change.
It focuses on building stronger cross-functional collaboration, using scenario planning to evaluate options before disruption hits and continuously refining forecasts as new signals emerge. The result is a demand planning process that supports faster decisions, fewer surprises, and a more resilient supply chain overall.
3. Inventory Planning Best Practices
Strong inventory planning gives organizations the ability to meet service goals while keeping working capital in check. This post outlines best practices that help teams strike the right balance between availability, cost, and risk.
It focuses on improving visibility across the network, making trade-offs explicit, and planning inventory with real operational constraints in mind. When done well, inventory planning becomes a strategic lever, supporting better service levels, healthier inventory positions and more predictable outcomes across the supply chain.
4. Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit 2025: A CEO Perspective
Written from the lens of our CEO, this post captures his key takeaways from the 2025 Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit. It reflects on the themes shaping the future of planning: AI realism, decision support over automation hype and the growing need for adaptable systems.
The post connects industry conversation to strategic priorities executives are grappling with today: resilience, credibility and scalable growth.
5. Supply Chain Scheduling Best Practices: Developing the Tools to Execute Your Supply Chain Plan
Even the best plans fail without execution. This blog dives into scheduling best practices that turn high-level plans into executable reality. It addresses common gaps between planning and the plant floor, emphasizing finite capacity, sequencing constraints, and real-world variability. The takeaway is clear: scheduling tools must reflect how operations really run, not how spreadsheets assume they do.
6. Applying AI in Supply Chain Planning
This article takes a measured, no-hype look at how AI is being applied in supply chain planning today. Rather than positioning AI as a silver bullet, it explains where AI adds real value through pattern recognition, demand sensing, and scenario evaluation, and where human judgment remains essential. The focus is on practical outcomes: faster decisions, earlier risk detection, and better-informed trade-offs.
7. From Theory to Practice: How AI Improves Supply Chain Planning Workflows
Building on the AI conversation, this post shows how AI actually fits into day-to-day planning workflows. It moves from concept to application, illustrating how AI can support planners by automating low-value tasks, highlighting exceptions, and enabling faster scenario analysis. The emphasis is on AI as decision support, not replacement, helping teams spend less time reacting and more time managing by exception.
Conclusion: Turning Insight into Action
Across these posts, one theme is consistent: disruption is inevitable, but chaos is not. Modern supply chain planning demands tools and approaches that reflect real constraints, support informed decision-making, and adapt as conditions change. Whether the topic is Gartner insights, best practices, or applied AI, the message is the same confidence comes from planning systems that flex with reality, not fight it.
