Tag: AI

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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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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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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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain

Decision Intelligence, a Natural Step in the Planning Evolution

Decision Intelligence (DI) is a natural evolution in supply chain planning technology. It closes the planning and execution automation gap which has been left by ERP and APS, both technologies that have reached the maturity phase for their functional aims. 7% of companies have started to adopt autonomous end-to-end planning. 3% of companies use autonomous execution to enhance their supply chain resilience. Prediction are that … Continue reading Decision Intelligence, a Natural Step in the Planning Evolution

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Digital supply chain, Leadership, Supply Chain

Artificial Intelligence – beyond the hype, the experts, its weak spots and losing your job

In our household we love our Google Home. My girls use it continuously to play music, ask silly questions, jokes, do calculations and spell difficult words amongst other things. I use it to voice command my shopping list, set a timer and book meetings in my agenda. Speeking to and interacting with a little machine in my living room, that has the capacity to both … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence – beyond the hype, the experts, its weak spots and losing your job

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