Excess-and-obsolete prevention cues

A supply chain idea becomes valuable when it changes a decision at the right moment. This brief explores excess-and-obsolete prevention cues as a way to connect signals with a planner’s next action.

Practitioner lens

For excess-and-obsolete prevention cues, the operating signal matters only if it arrives before the decision cutoff. Map that cutoff, the accountable role and the action that remains feasible.

First experiment

Check whether source data is timely, owned and consistent across the systems that planners actually use.

This is an original educational brief. It is a starting point for discussion, not a claim that one technique fits every supply chain.