LeanDNA

Always great to see our customer's hard work recognized! Huge congrats to the Carrier Montilla supply chain team on this recognition. Stories like this are why we do what we do: a team that took on complexity head-on, drove real transformation, and got results worth celebrating.

The LeanDNA team has touched down at Farnborough International Airshow 2026! We'll be at Booth 2519 | Hall 2 under the USA Partnership Pavilion all week. Come see us!

We're finalists for the CII Industrial Innovation Awards 2026, People's Choice category, and we need your vote. APEX by LeanDNA was built to solve one of manufacturing's most stubborn problems: the gap between what gets planned and what actually gets built. If that mission resonates with you, or if you've seen what factory-first AI can do for supply chain readiness, we'd love your support. Every vote helps put factory-first AI on the map. Thank you for being part of the journey. Vote here: https://lnkd.in/ghVtkuR6 Voting is open now through July 24. #IndustrialInnovationAwards #SupplyChain #ManufacturingAI #APEXbyLeanDNA

72% of manufacturers only discover critical material shortages after production delays are already unavoidable. In aerospace, where the commercial backlog sits at 17,000 aircraft (about 14 years of production), that gap is exactly where schedule risk hides. Detection is only half the fix. 51% of manufacturers still take a week or longer to act once a risk is flagged. See what late detection is costing the industry: https://lnkd.in/guqVCK8V

In our 2026 survey of 150 senior manufacturing leaders, 75% said supply plan failures happen at the factory-specific execution stage, not in the forecast. For aerospace, where a single missing part can ground a build for weeks, that gap gets expensive fast. 72% didn't catch a shortage until delays were already unavoidable. 51% took a week or longer to decide on corrective action once a risk was flagged. 47% say 10% or more of annual revenue is lost or at risk because of it. Most manufacturers have invested heavily in demand planning, but supply planning, the discipline that determines whether the factory can actually execute, is still treated as an afterthought. 92% of leadership teams already have some confidence that AI can close this gap. The question is whether supply planning gets the same investment forecasting did. Read the full report to see where the readiness gap is costing your program the most. https://lnkd.in/d9nczYNg 2026/LeanDNA-Supply-Chain-Report-2026-Aero-2.pdf

Most buyers we talk to build their line of balance in Excel: export supply and demand from the ERP, pivot it into weekly buckets, bring it to the shortage meeting... Then do the whole thing again tomorrow, and manually carry over yesterday's notes and priorities so nothing gets lost. This article details how Line of Balance and End Item Line of Balance work in APEX, and how they connect you directly to what happens after you spot the shortage: checking POs, messaging the supplier, deciding whether to hold a build. All of that lives in the same platform. Read here: https://lnkd.in/gtxFhkWR

We're headed to Farnborough Airshow next week, July 20–24. Come see APEX in action, work through a shortage or supplier risk you're managing, or connect with our experts who work with top supply chain leaders at Safran, Boeing, Radius, and more. We're booking one-on-one meetings all week at Booth 2519 in the USA Pavilion and hosting exclusive lunches for a small group of senior leaders. Grab a spot here: https://lnkd.in/giyAppS6 #FIA2026 #FarnboroughAirshow

39% fewer shortages. 7 months. Zero expedite fees. That's what happened when E-ONE, a fire truck manufacturer, replaced manual planning with APEX by LeanDNA. The semiconductor shortage hit their supply chain hard. Instead of reacting to every disruption, their team gained 6-12 month forecasts and one dashboard the whole team could trust. Swipe through to see how they did it. 👇 #SupplyChain #Manufacturing #APEXbyLeanDNA

A "silly" bolt almost cost his plant three weeks of downtime. Eric Jensen, Director of Control Tower, discovered a critical C-part had been written off with none in stock and a three-week resupply wait ahead. Instead of shutting the line down, he opened APEX, checked the Other Sites tab, and found 300 units sitting in excess at a sister factory in Mexico. The plant lost one shift instead of three weeks. That's the power of factory-first AI: real-time visibility across your entire network, so a part shortage in one plant becomes a quick transfer instead of a shutdown. Watch Eric tell the story 👇 #SupplyChain #Manufacturing #AI #InventoryOptimization

Manufacturers with 81% of their peers reporting excess inventory from planning and execution misalignment are often buying parts they already own. Not because buyers are careless, but because the same part sits on a shelf at one plant while a buyer at another plant orders it under a different SKU. Our new piece breaks down why cross-site visibility, not lower safety stock, is the fastest lever for reducing inventory. Modine cut inventory 50% at focus plants. Safran Seats GB reduced excess inventory 36% in three months. Daher cut excess inventory 27%. All by surfacing what the network already owns before the next PO gets placed. Read the full breakdown, including a 5-step framework for building cross-site visibility into the daily buyer workflow: https://lnkd.in/gc8VWcWX