Category 1: Expiry Apocalypse
The planner’s worst nightmare: when product ages out before it can be issued.
What is expiry?
The monthly cycle where supply, demand, and finance align.
What is the IBP process?
The primary product type collected for fractionation.
What is source plasma?
The first thing a planner checks every morning (before coffee).
What is the inventory dashboard?
The concept/function that ensures every product gets where it’s needed, when it’s needed.
What is the supply chain?
The panic message that starts every Friday afternoon Teams chat.
What is “We might lose 20 units by Sunday”?
The meeting where everything makes sense… until it doesn’t. Usually the first step of the IBP process
What is the Demand Review?
The biggest operational difference between plasma and whole blood collections.
What is plasma can be frozen and stored long-term?
The universal planner phrase that means “I don’t believe this forecast.”
What is “Let’s sanity check this”?
The last-minute change that sends ripple effects through the entire plan.
What is the Demand LE
This proactive process helps avoid expiry by reallocating inventory across regions.
What is site transferred
When planners come prepared with new insights and validated assumptions, this happens.
What is scenario planning or gap closure?
This metric tracks the ratio of actual vs. planned collections.
What is collection attainment?
The term for aligning short-term actions with medium-term IBP goals.
What is horizontal integration or horizon alignment?
The CBS term for that one batch of production is on hold and may not be released
what is a quality event (QE)
The tool CBS uses to drive decision alignment across horizons.
What is the Integrated Business Planning workbook or a Horizontal Planning Sheet
The reason plasma targets keep growing year over year.
What is increased demand for plasma protein therapies?
When a planner manually fixes an error the system was “supposed” to automate.
What is a workaround?
The invisible hero in every CBS plan that keeps things balanced across provinces.
What is the logistics and transportation network?
The mathematical curve used to visualize how fast RBC or platelet inventory decays.
What is the age distribution curve?
The holy grail of planning maturity where data, behavior, and trust all align.
What is full IBP maturity?
The biggest logistical challenge when scaling plasma centers nationally.
What is maintaining donor frequency and supply chain efficiency?
The top secret ingredient that keeps every planner functioning.
What is caffeine (or sarcasm)?
The reason we plan by SKU, not by hope.
What is data-driven decision making / we service our customers by SKU not by hope.