What I look for in the first data export
Every AJM engagement starts with one data export. What happens in the first 48 hours has not changed in thirty years.
Remote Supply Chain Simulation for MENA Operations: How It Works
AJM Solutions works remotely with distribution, manufacturing, and logistics businesses across the Middle East and North Africa using the ARTEMIS simulation framework. Here is how it works.
Step three: look for what is missing rather than what is present
After forty-four years and forty-two countries, I have learned that the most expensive problems in any operation are not the ones your systems flag. They are the ones your systems never connect. Profiling tells you what your data looks like. Reconciliation tells you where the numbers do not agree. But step three is different. Step […]
What 44 years across 42 countries taught me about where operational losses hide
Forty-four years. Forty-two countries. The same five operational losses surface in every environment — not similar problems, the same ones. Here is what they are and why they persist.
The Data Diagnostic: why a fixed-fee pilot is the right way to start
The question CFOs ask most often when they first contact us is not about methodology. It is about the size of the commitment. The Data Diagnostic is designed to remove that barrier.
Why your board pack is answering the wrong question
Most board packs answer one question: did we hit the number? That is not the most useful question. Here is what boards should be asking instead.
The translation gap between finance and operations
In thirty years of board rooms, one pattern shows up almost every time. Someone asks about operations, finance cannot connect it to the P&L, and nobody says so out loud. That gap is where capital gets misallocated.