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title: An Operations Leader’s Awakening
description: A Poetic take on the needs of Operations and Supply Chain Leaders, and how process automation with OpsVeda changes the game!
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# [An Operations Leader’s Awakening](https://blogs.opsveda.com/an-operations-leaders-awakening)

 Written by [Ratheesh Raveendran](https://blogs.opsveda.com/author/ratheesh-raveendran) | Jan 28, 2019 7:01:07 AM

A Poetic take on the needs of Operations and Supply Chain Leaders, and how process automation with OpsVeda changes the game!

 

I suspect my phone can read my mind,  
It always rings when the moment is most unkind.  
There it goes again... Some breakdown this time.  
Figuring downstream impact is a grind,   

And customers will put me in a bind.

 

Just when I got started with the data pull,  
In walks my team member like cucumber cool.  
He waved his phone at me and said,  
It’s only 3 customers, don’t mewl.

All have safety stock, so no trouble.

 

Barely did I lean back and catch my breath,  
And in came the next call of death.  
“There’s going to be a stock-out,” yelled the VP.  
I turn to the analyst, eyes filled with wrath.

“En route and on time,” said he with spirit so blithe.

 

Good day so far, and I hit the snack bar.  
There the plant manager says that my team is all-star.  
“Raw material is there just when I need it,” she beams,  
“And the costs have been lowest by far.”  
Must be some dream because this is all so bizarre.

 

I meet the management post lunch,  
The story continues with the CFO praising our hunch.  
“Margins and sales rising together,” he exclaimed!  
By now I know something is happening in the trench.  
I dash back to know about the secret winch.

 

With bewilderment that my face would attest,  
I asked, “How are we making decisions that are the best?”  
“OpsVeda’s real-time platform makes it easy,” they said.  
Now decisions are based on info that are latest.  
So action is timely and problems get redressed.

 

“Real-time! Is that all?” I enquire, still confused.  
“OpsVeda’s rules map our processes perfectly,” they enthused.  
Now that must be the game changer, I ponder.  
But there was more that the team deduced;  
In a click opportunities were exploited and risks reduced.

 

Next the team shows me JUNI;  
That is handy for ad-hoc analysis and miscellany.  
Data exploration was never so easy, I muse;  
While being enlightened of the team’s source of epiphany,  
And knowing that OpsVeda is going to be my team’s crony.

 

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