Stay Ahead of Supply Chain Trends with ICRON

Walk into the boardroom of any global manufacturer today, and one thing is certain. Executives are not just talking about growth, expansion, or innovation. They’re talking about efficiency, cost control, and speed of decisions as a part of their core supply chain strategy.

Midmarket enterprises today face growing supply chain complexity, rising volatility, and unrelenting pressure to do more with less. Choosing the right supply chain planning solution is now essential to achieving agility, foresight, and optimization intelligence that ERP systems alone cannot provide.

This report breaks down the trends, signals, and priorities poised to reshape decision-making in 2026. If you want the big picture in minutes, start here.

In today’s hypercompetitive and highly complex business environment, companies are constantly searching for ways to gain competitive advantage by improving the speed, efficiency, and quality of the goods and services they deliver to customers through their supply chains. The key to unlocking ...

The Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) professional of yesterday – proficient in spreadsheets and production scheduling – has given way to a new archetype: a strategic business partner who connects supply chain operations with enterprise strategy.

Artificial intelligence has long influenced how supply chains plan and perform. In recent years, the spotlight has shifted from generative models that forecast outcomes to agentic, which can detect disruptions and act responsibly within defined limits.

ICRON is pleased to announce that İpekyol Group, one of Turkey’s most established and influential fashion retail organizations, has selected ICRON WFM for AI powered employee scheduling and workforce management across its extensive store network.

This article explains why beer producers, with their dependence on fermentation cycles, tank behaviors, freshness rules, and flow-sensitive operations, increasingly rely on flow-based production scheduling. It shows how real-time visibility, digital twins, and scenario analysis replace firefighting with data-driven, system-wide decision making. The article concludes that for breweries, advanced flow scheduling and AI-supported decision intelligence are becoming essential capabilities for ensuring efficiency, resilience, and consistent product freshness.

Maxion İnci Wheel Group is Europe’s largest single-location aluminum and steel wheel producer for passenger, light commercial and heavy commercial vehicles. Planning was becoming a race against complexity. With delivery windows becoming tighter and operations becoming increasingly difficult to coordinate, the planning team needed a more effective approach. What did it take to regain speed, visibility, and control—all at once? Read on to know!

Our customer set out to strengthen planning across brewing, filtration, and packaging while upholding one of its core commitments to consumers: consistently fresh beer. The planning team needed clearer visibility into true production capacity, faster scenario comparison, and a dependable way to balance freshness requirements with demand.