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S&OP • SAP IBP • o9 • INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION

Supplychainplanningthatholds.

Fourteen years of demand and supply planning across SAP IBP, o9 and OMP — CPG, pharma, industrial — spent learning the plan is never the hard part. What holds past the first bad week is, measured in cycle time, working capital and service level, never in decks delivered.

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* Three planning platforms, one recurring job: making the monthly meeting decide something.

Portrait of Lavi Sahu
PLAN · BUILD · HOLD · REPEAT · ✦
✺ Where I've Traveled — Routed from BangaloreHover a hub or city to explore

The shelf and the map are the person. This is the work.

01How I think

Systems, stoicism, and durable craft.

02Look around

Five corners of a curious life.

01The day jobSAP IBP, o9, OMP, S&OP — plus three planning tools you can actually play with.→02The shelf112 books in a Bangalore flat; 18 opened into interactive idea-decks.→03The map19 countries, read like systems. Four essays and a live world map.→04The tableDota, Age of Empires and a Euro board-game habit. Strategy, off the clock.→05The workbenchHow this site itself gets built — real merge conflicts, a working AI feature, and the parts still unverified.→
The day job
The day job
The shelf
The shelf
The map
The map
The table
The table
03Currently
ReadingMeditations, for the nth time
PlayingCastles of Burgundy + a late Dota queue
Last stampBangkok, 2026
Buildingthis site, in the open

Updated by hand. A 'currently' block that lies is worse than none.

The plan is the easy part. Holding it is the work.

A planner who reads, travels, and never plays anything with dice-luck.

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Years in supply chain

14

Books on the shelf

112

Countries on the map

19

Continents roamed

4

Fourteen of the years are the job. The rest of the numbers are what the job pays for.

Systems over symptoms

Fourteen years of supply-chain work taught me to see the system, not the firefight. I bring the same lens to everything — a reading habit, a board-game economy, a life.

Stoic, ambition intact

Marcus Aurelius in one hand, a roadmap in the other. At 39 I care less about the achievement treadmill and more about work that compounds and stays meaningful — without giving up the ambition.

The Stoics would have made good planners: pre-mortem the setback, ship the plan, review the variance without flinching.

Outlast the tool

Plain text over shiny apps. The durable system beats the clever hack. My second brain is markdown I will still own in twenty years.