decision intelligence, Digital supply chain, Leadership

The Four Strategic Pillars of Future Business Transformations

In numerous blogs and articles since 2019, I’ve shared my vision of a more autonomous supply chain, segmented by decision, augmented by intelligent agents, supported by collaboration between human and machine and a change in operating model for the knowledge worker. It is good to see the market and some thought leaders are catching up with these ideas. What I wrote about then is now … Continue reading The Four Strategic Pillars of Future Business Transformations

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain

It is Time for Bold Visions in Supply Chain Planning!

Crazy stuff can happen in 10 years! This week a decade ago, I envisioned an autonomous IBP, by comparing the evolution of planning with self-driving car. Level 5 autonomy was far away. Back then, Waymo just became a subsidiary of Alphabet! My 2016 blog In 2019 I joined Aera Technology. A company with the bold vision of ‘enabling the self-driving enterprise’, laser focused on digitising, … Continue reading It is Time for Bold Visions in Supply Chain Planning!

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Digital supply chain, Leadership

Supply Chain Knowledge Workers Across the World, Unite!

Dear supply chain knowledge worker, You are the unsung hero who quietly ties the supply chain together. The lubricant on the cogs in the supply chain engine. You smooth the miscommunication and political posturing between functions, align supplier capabilities, introduce new products and manage customer demands. You’re the agility that reacts to the exceptions of which there are so many now. You champion the recovery … Continue reading Supply Chain Knowledge Workers Across the World, Unite!

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain, S&OP

Human AI Collaboration in Supply Chain Planning

I recently did a Podcast with Mark Blackwell from Arkaro, which I embedded (41:28 min) and the executive summary underneath. Mark and I had a great conversation. Executive Summary Why do planners spend 50% of their time on tasks that waste their brain power? Niels van Hove, globally recognised thought leader in integrated business planning and human-AI collaboration, argues that the competitive advantage in supply … Continue reading Human AI Collaboration in Supply Chain Planning

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain, S&OP

The Evolution of Demand Planning: Augmentation & AI-Agents  

Summary this article discusses how AI decision agents will help evolve demand planning from a function focused on creating a point plan, to a gap detection, gap closure and decision management function, where demand planners provide cross functional aligned decision input to the Demand Review with significantly increased speed, consistency and accuracy. It highlights how demand planning decisions will be digitised, augmented and status managed … Continue reading The Evolution of Demand Planning: Augmentation & AI-Agents  

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain

Treat your Decision Agent as a Co-Worker!

Kasparov’s law indicates that a collaborative process between humans and machines leads to superior results. Supply Chain professor Nada Sanders therefore advocates in her book Humachine, an AI-collaborative culture. At a personal level, I’ve highlighted that this requires an AI-mindset, where we see an agent as a co-worker we collaboratively approach with a growth-mindset and smart trust. We can teach our experience to an agent, … Continue reading Treat your Decision Agent as a Co-Worker!

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain, Leadership

We’re Stuck with Old Supply Chain Models

In her post, Driving Value from Supply Chain Planning, Lora Cecere provides great supply chain analysis and benchmarking for her supply chain to admire. The supply chain operating model adjustments and metrics she is suggesting however, are not based on new thinking: 👉 Outside in thinking: in strategy over 50 years old 👉 Outside in demand segmented supply chains: over 20 years old 👉 Business … Continue reading We’re Stuck with Old Supply Chain Models

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S&OP, Supply Chain

Thank You

Dear reader, As I’m starting 2025 it is time for some change. I will finish my editorship at Foresight, and I will stop this blog supply chain trend. For 15 years I’ve been writing this blog and related articles & field studies on average monthly. Content was anchored in S&OP and supply chain planning but touched visioning, strategy execution, company culture & behaviours, communication, philosophy, … Continue reading Thank You

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Digital supply chain, Positive mindset

Cultivating an AI Mindset: Growing with AI

AI is infiltrating our personal lives and the workplace, and soon will be everywhere and irreplaceable in everything you do. At home and in the workplace. Developing and cultivating an AI Mindset will become a must for the modern knowledge worker. In a series of short blogs, I will explore core elements of an AI mindset. In this blog; Collaboration. In previous blogs I discussed … Continue reading Cultivating an AI Mindset: Growing with AI

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decision intelligence, Leadership, S&OP

Key Elements of Decision Centricity in Effective IBP Processes

IBP and its predecessor S&OP were developed as executive decision-making forums. In support of effective decision making in the IBP process, we could expect many decision centric capabilities in an organization. But how decision centric is your S&OP/IBP process, your meetings, your organization? Any idea? To create some baseline insights, I developed an 11-question checklist to assess IBP decision centricity. Based on this checklist I … Continue reading Key Elements of Decision Centricity in Effective IBP Processes

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