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      <title>Safety stock, shown honestly: the formula, the assumptions, and when it lies</title>
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      <description>The safety-stock formula is one line of algebra resting on three assumptions your demand quietly violates. Here is the whole thing, in the open.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Planning school</category>
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      <title>Why our forecast engine refuses to forecast — and yours should too</title>
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      <description>A forecasting engine that never says &quot;I don't know&quot; is not confident. It is lying with extra steps. Here is why refusal is a feature we built on purpose.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Build notes</category>
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      <title>Planning around Diwali: the event uplift your spreadsheet can't learn</title>
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      <description>Festival demand is not noise to be smoothed away — it is signal to be graded. Why a scheme calendar beats a seasonal index for Indian demand.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>India ops</category>
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      <title>WAPE vs MAPE vs MASE: which accuracy number is lying to you today?</title>
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      <description>Three forecast-accuracy metrics, three very different lies. A field guide to reading the number before you trust it.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Planning school</category>
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      <title>The trust badge on every number: why we rung-rate our own outputs</title>
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      <description>Measured, computed, estimated, default. Four badges that travel with every number in the product — and why provenance beats precision.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Build notes</category>
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      <title>No data without a contract: how we map your ECC fields (and report every column we drop)</title>
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      <description>The one rule that governs every byte entering SangamIQ from your ERP — and why &quot;we'll just ingest everything&quot; is exactly the wrong answer.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Build notes</category>
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