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Moving from heroics and burnout to a modern, empowered planning function — why your best planners are drowning in spreadsheet work instead of making decisions.
The best planners in retail aren’t leaving because of compensation. They’re leaving because the job has become data admin.
This paper examines the structural forces that turn planning roles into spreadsheet maintenance jobs — and what it takes to rebuild the function around decision-making instead of data wrangling. It draws on interviews with planning leaders who’ve made the transition and quantifies the hidden cost of planner burnout on margin performance.
If your team is spending more time maintaining the spreadsheet than using it, this is the paper that names the problem.
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