Shift-Left Planning: How to Design Resilience Into Your Supply Chain Plan
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Date: July 14, 2026
Time: 11 a.m. ET
Presented by: Anand Iyer -
Date: July 23, 2026
Time: 11 a.m. IST
Presented by: Anand Iyer
Your Planners Know What’s Coming. Does Your Plan?
Most supply chain leaders know the next disruption is coming. The question is whether your planning process was built to absorb it or whether you’ll spend the next crisis reacting to assumptions that should have been challenged months earlier.
In this session, Anand Iyer introduces Shift-Left Planning: a framework for moving critical risk decisions earlier in the planning process, so your plans are built on quantified inputs from the start, not ideal-condition assumptions that execution will eventually expose.
What You’ll Walk Away With
- A clear framework for what Shift-Left Planning is and why conventional planning architecture leaves organizations structurally exposed
- A way to quantify the gap between what your best planners know instinctively and what your planning system encodes
- Three planning postures: Aggressive, Balanced, Conservative, and how to use them before locking in commitments
- Practical criteria for evaluating where resilience enters (or doesn’t enter) your current planning cycle
Save Your Spot
Session Description
There’s a gap most organizations don’t measure: the distance between what experienced planners know about risk, like which suppliers are unreliable, which customers are volatile, where yield variability creates fragility, and what gets encoded in the plan.
That gap is where disruptions live.
Shift-Left Planning is the discipline of closing that gap by design, not by exception. It draws from the same logic that transformed software development: don’t test for failure at the end of the cycle. Build for it from the beginning.
This is not a product overview. It’s a working session on how supply chain planning should be designed—and what it costs when it isn’t.
About the Speaker
Anand Iyer is the CEO of Arkieva. He brings a practitioner’s perspective on how organizations make planning decisions, and how often those decisions reflect inherited behavior rather than intentional design. This session reflects the kind of thinking Anand does best: challenging conventional framing, introducing concepts that reorient how experienced professionals see a problem they thought they understood and doing it with enough intellectual honesty that the audience arrives at the conclusion themselves.
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