The Long Tail of Supply Chain Decisions Is About to Become Economically Accessible

Most supply chain organizations do not optimize every decision, and historically that has been rational. Human attention is expensive, operational data is fragmented, and the value of investigating a small exception often does not justify the effort required to resolve it. The result is a long tail of decisions that are individually minor but collectively expensive.
The economics begin to change when decision-to-action latency falls and the marginal cost of intelligence approaches the cost of so