Association for Supply Chain Management

Tell me about it, Maile.

And no one else cares about those numbers except for the team that puts them together, right? Folks, we led with some big key takeaways from Change 2026, which is a big industry event powered by our friends at ASCM.

Took place last week in Long Beach, and we couldn't be there in person this year, but we reached out to our friends there to gather and then to share some key takeaways from all the conversations.

And check this out, Maile.

Development started in 1979.

And in 1980, Goldratt presented it to APICS, the American Production and Inventory Control Society, at its international conference.

He called it Optimized Production Timetables, and it was later renamed Optimized Production Technology, or OPT for short.

The company selling it was Creative Output, and OPT was billed as the first software to do finite capacity scheduling, planning a plant as though its machines had real limits, which most planning systems of the day simply assumed away.

One of them says, in effect, that keeping a resource busy and using it productively are not the same thing.

Every plant manager nods at that sentence, and almost none of them were paid on it.

So in 1983, Goldratt stood up at the APICS conference and gave a talk whose title tells you he had stopped being polite.

Cost accounting, he argued, was the number one enemy of productivity.

I think we were talking pre-show.

I was last in Columbus with ASCM's change event last year, which is going to be at Long Beach this year.

I think you're going to be there, right, Liz? That's right.

I will.