Your Spreadsheet Isn’t a Supply Chain Strategy: Meet Arkieva at NASCES 2026

Every supply chain team has one: the spreadsheet that holds the plan together. The one with the macros nobody wants to touch, the tabs that only make sense to the person who built them, and the manual updates that happen every time a supplier goes dark or demand shifts overnight.

It’s not a strategy. It’s a workaround, and it’s the reason so many planning teams spend more time patching the plan than actually running it.

That’s the conversation we want to have at the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit (NASCES), September 21–23 at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas. Arkieva will be there, and we’re setting up one-on-one meetings with supply chain, procurement, and operations leaders before the event even opens.

Why NASCES, and Why Now

NASCES brings together the people running supply chains at scale: Chief Supply Chain Officers, Chief Procurement Officers, and Director-level and above leaders across sourcing, logistics, operations, planning, manufacturing, and fulfillment. It’s the kind of room where the best conversations rarely happen on the main stage. They happen in the hallway, over coffee, or in a scheduled 30 minutes with someone who already understands the problem.

We’d rather be that 30 minutes than a booth you walk past.

Disruption Isn’t the Exception Anymore

Tariffs shift. Demand swings. A supplier goes dark with no warning. None of that is new, what’s changed is how often it happens, and how little room legacy planning tools leave you to react. Spreadsheets and rigid systems were built for a world that held still long enough to plan around it. That world is gone, and most teams are stuck reacting instead of planning.

If your plan only works when nothing goes wrong, it’s not a plan. That’s the honest starting point for the conversations we want to have at NASCES, a real look at where your plan is breaking, and what a system built to keep up with disruption instead of falling behind it would most change.

What That Looks Like in Practice

Arkieva’s platform covers the full planning picture: Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, Production Scheduling and S&OP Management, and it’s built to flex from highly configurable, complex supply chains down to simple, plug-and-play setups. Whether the gap is sensing and shaping demand before it shifts, rebalancing supply automatically when constraints hit, or finally getting S&OP out of six disconnected spreadsheets and into one process everyone trusts, we’ll point to the specific piece that fits, not a generic pitch.

It’s also why we’re recognized by Gartner® in the Supply Chain Planning Solutions Magic Quadrant™ .

Proof It Works: Ask the Team Behind Squishmallow

Jazwares, the company behind Squishmallow, moved their S&OP process out of spreadsheets and into a single, centralized system with Arkieva. The result wasn’t just a cleaner process, it was a shift the team now talks about on stages. That’s the kind of change we want to talk through with you at NASCES: not what Arkieva does on paper, but what’s different on the ground once a planning team stops fighting its tools and starts trusting them.

Let’s Book Time Before the Show Floor Gets Loud

Meetings at NASCES fill up fast, and once the event starts, it’s booth-line odds whether we get real time together. Booking ahead means a real conversation, already on the calendar, about the constraints you’re planning around this quarter no pitch, no slides required.

Book your meeting with Arkieva at NASCES 2026 → Reserve your spot

We’ll be at Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa, September 21–23. Bring the real problem, we’ll bring the plan.