🐝 Greetings from Bee·I — Wk08 2026 📋 Deck in Progress

The February 18 WBR opened with energy around the AI hackathon launching the next day—Alex Huang's team is leading four of their five entries among 50-60 submissions company-wide. Forecast accuracy dominated much of the discussion, with the USF model hitting 20% MAPE on established product lines and Ring continuing to outperform with WAPE in the low teens, prompting talk of full axiom adoption there. A striking finding emerged: 64% of forecast adjustments labeled "good" were actually unnecessary, signaling a need to coach product managers on when to trust the model versus override it. Supply chain headaches remain unresolved—tungsten constraints are dragging tablets down to 73% FTIS with no relief until mid-year, and cannoli faces a 1.3 million unit shortfall expected to persist through Q2. On the operational side, the BI team officially takes ownership of the automated weekly flash flow, with an ETA expected within the week. The group also agreed to retire vague phase-based action items in favor of specific delivery dates and to fold forecast metrics reviews into existing PL rhythms rather than spinning up new meetings. Walking into this week, keep an eye on the hackathon voting, the flash flow timeline from BI, and any updates on supply recovery for tablets and cannoli.