Open Source in Supply Chain Management

A CPG brand launches at a national retailer. Sales crush projections by $2.8M. By week ten? 34% out-of-stock rates. $4.2M in lost sales. 28% of customers gone for good. The retailer had the real-time signals — demand spikes, promotional lift, store-level inventory. That data just never reached the manufacturer’s planning systems. This plays out across the industry every day: $1.75T in annual lost sales from stockouts. 43% of shoppers immediately switch brands. And most companies are still sharing data through stale snapshots and brittle ETL pipelines. Roberto Robles writes about how open-source Delta Sharing from Databricks is changing this — live data access across platforms, 505x more granular insights, and governance that actually scales. Companies like Crisp, Zalando, and leading retailers are already proving what’s possible: 45% higher promotion ROI and 10%+ sales lifts. The question isn’t whether to modernize data collaboration. It’s how long you can afford not to. https://lnkd.in/eJZaCz3Q #RetailTransformation #CPG #SupplyChain #DeltaSharing #Databricks

SCOR, Open Access, and Why the License Matters When the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) announced that SCOR DS would be “open access,” many of us saw it as a positive step. For decades the Supply Chain Council encouraged people to teach SCOR, share SCOR, adapt SCOR, and apply SCOR to improvement projects. So hearing the words open access made it sound like that spirit was finally being formalized. But the details tell a different story. Creative Commons BY NC ND 4.0 is the most restrictive of all the open access licenses. NC means that use cannot be primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation. ND means that no adaptations are allowed. That means you can't use it in business, even if your business is education or helping other businesses. In practice this turns SCOR into a read only document. That is not how SCOR has ever worked in the real world. SCOR became influential because people could translate diagrams into their own formats. They could build lessons around it. They could include it inside transformation playbooks. They could share it with suppliers and customers. They could teach it in classrooms and corporate programs. They could build tools based on it. SCOR grew because the community could use it, improve it, and bring it to life. NC ND stops most of that. It restricts the very activities that made SCOR valuable. If the goal is openness, accessibility, and relevance, then open access should empower the community, not restrict it. A ShareAlike (SA) license would preserve attribution and protect the model while still allowing the kinds of practical use that have defined SCOR for more than twenty years. If you believe SCOR should remain accessible, adaptable, and useful to educators, practitioners, and innovators, now is the time to add your voice. A respectful, unified message from the community can influence the outcome. ~Mr. Supply Chain® #AlwaysBeLearning #SupplyChain #FreeSCOR

⭐ Building Trust in Software Supply Chains: Why OpenChain Participation Matters ⭐ The OpenChain Project has emerged as a critical foundation for organizations seeking to operationalize trust, transparency, and compliance in their open source practices. Global regulations are tightening and the spotlight is now on the integrity of the software supply chain. In this short post, I explore: ☑️ How OpenChain evolved from a license compliance framework to a global ISO standard ☑️ Why OSPOs, legal teams, and compliance professionals should prioritize participation ☑️ The growing alignment between OpenChain, the US Executive Order on Cybersecurity, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act ☑️ How OpenChain contributes to global readiness and regulatory alignment Whether you’re becoming aware of OpenChain or considering deeper engagement, this post is designed to guide your strategy. 📖 Link to the full post is included below. 📌 I regularly share insights on OSPOs, open source governance, open source AI, and developer enablement. Check my recent posts or connect to stay updated. #OpenChain #OSPO #OpenSourceCompliance #SoftwareSupplyChain #OpenSource Featuring: The Linux Foundation, OpenChain Project, OpenSSF, and SPDX SBOM. cc: Shane Coughlan (General Manager, OpenChain)