# Empty Shelves and Full Warehouses: The Hidden Structural Failure in Food Planning

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Podcast: [The Liat Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-liat-show-7088025)
Published: 2026-02-26T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://liatportal.substack.com/p/empty-shelves-and-full-warehouses
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Current Time. I honestly did not expect that many people to listen to the previous episode on its first day. Supply chain, logistics, and inventory may be boring, but they are so present in our lives that we cannot ignore them. Simplifying the professional terms, the core, and the solution made it easier to understand. I don’t know if this is more of a ‘When the student is ready, the teacher appears’ or a ‘A good teacher makes the complex simple’ situation. So, whether you are ready to learn about it because you finally understand the impact on your life and your pocket, or you have found a teacher you finally understand for the first time in your life, I’m glad you are here. Therefore, I created this second podcast to help you understand the software architecture without being a software engineer. This becomes even more crucial in the AI era we are living in, where developers use automated tools and agents intensively, which could create a distance between what they develop and what is required. In this podcast, the hosts focus on what happens when businesses search for inventory management software. They often receive tools built for reporting and category-level aggregation rather than true SKU-level execution. Most demand planning systems aggregate at the category level. The breakdown happens at the SKU level. When volatility is smoothed instead of surfaced, teams discover the problem after the inventory decision has already been made. The critical variable in food supply chain planning is not long-term forecasting accuracy but performance within the ordering window, where operational inventory risk can still be reduced. PlanToIt exists because traditional demand planning systems confirm change after inventory decisions have already been executed. The main problem t…

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