BOM Analysis Beyond Excel: SQL-Native Product Similarity in DuckDB
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Your new laptop launches in 6 weeks. Finance wants a demand forecast. Problem: zero sales history.
The S&OP playbook says: find similar products, use their history as analogs. But "which products are similar?" means comparing BOMs. And comparing BOMs often means... Excel. VLOOKUP. Manual counting. Hours later, you have five candidates and zero confidence it's complete.