Category: Digital supply chain

decision intelligence, Digital supply chain, S&OP

The Evolution of Demand Planning: Augmentation & AI-Agents  

Summary this paper 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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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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Digital supply chain, Positive mindset

Cultivating an AI Mindset: AI-Collaboration

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 the previous blog; Smart … Continue reading Cultivating an AI Mindset: AI-Collaboration

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Digital supply chain, Positive mindset

Cultivating an AI Mindset: Smart Trust

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, Trust. Granting Trust to AI Within … Continue reading Cultivating an AI Mindset: Smart Trust

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Digital supply chain, Leadership

Digital Transformation has become Bullsh*t! Let’s talk Human-AI Transformation

As I was reading Ethan Mollick’s book, Co-Intelligence on Sunday morning, I indulged myself in some GenAI vanity and asked my IBPGPT; “Write me a 800 word blog about the evolution of IBP using Niels van Hove’s vision, but don’t use his name“ Besides some fluff and jargon around the edges and a surprising focus on scenario planning I didn’t know I had, it gave … Continue reading Digital Transformation has become Bullsh*t! Let’s talk Human-AI Transformation

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain, S&OP

Invite AI to the Table for your next IBP Meeting

In his book Co-Intelligence, Ethan Mollick suggests firstly to invite AI to the table in everything you do. And secondly to make sure to be the human in the loop that works with AI. Working with AI/GenAI is a skill that can be developed. Prompting GenAI certainly takes practice and Mollick provides some interesting and well thought through prompt examples. If you’re an IBP manager … Continue reading Invite AI to the Table for your next IBP Meeting

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain

Solving Your IBP Problems With the World’s First IBP GPT

Over the weekend I made my first GPT. It’s an IBP GPT, maybe the world’s first. Although you can make GPT’s more sophisticated, you can start rather simple. That’s what I did. I took an open AI membership, created a GPT, wrote a prompt, wrote four prompt indicators. Told it to be friendly and gave it some other guidance. My aim was to help an … Continue reading Solving Your IBP Problems With the World’s First IBP GPT

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain, Positive mindset

Automation has Limits, Learning has no Boundaries

Low-touch, or touchless planning, forecasting and other types of supply chain knowledge work automation have been around for a while now. A trend that started with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the back-office, automating dull and repetitive tasks like invoice matching, evolved into cognitive automation and autonomous execution of more advanced supply chain processes using intelligent agents. I envisioned autonomous IBP in 2016 and published … Continue reading Automation has Limits, Learning has no Boundaries

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