OTIF Cartoon: When AI Rates Performance

The Scenario: In this OTIF cartoon, we witness the ultimate "Dashboard Delusion."

A supply chain leader stands confidently before a graph showing a "Strong" performance rating generated by AI.

However, the honesty of the workplace surfaces in the punchline: "AI rates our OTIF as strong—I’ll explain once I understand the definition."

It captures that common corporate moment where a metric is celebrated not because it is accurate, but because the colors on the slide are green.

The Observation: This narrative identifies the "Semantic Lag" in modern analytics.

At Kaapi with Ravi, we observe that the more complex a metric like OTIF becomes—with its infinite exclusions and variations—the more we outsource the understanding of it to machines.

OTIF is the only metric where you can be 100% on time, 100% in full, and still have 0% of an idea how the AI came up with that number.

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• Series: Supply Chain Cartoons 

  
  

• Theme: Departmental Cartoons