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Practitioner essays on supply chain AI, operating models, and intelligent orchestration - the thinking behind the lab.

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My Experience with the Citizen Developers Model Across Operations. Merging the Pyramids.

The barrier to building software has collapsed. The barrier to owning it has not moved an inch. Every operations and supply chain leader is

11 Jul 20266 min read min
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Asymmetric models - technology is not the point. Response capacity.

Everyone I discuss it with agrees with the asymmetric operating model concept, but nobody has actually built it. Not for lack of vision. For

05 Jul 20265 min read min
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It Was Never the Model. It's the Harness.

So far the lens has been on the model - own it, don't rent it. Here is the half of the argument left

28 Jun 20266 min read min
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The Invisible Chain - Event About AI in Supply Chain. But Biggest Lever is Different.

On June 18th CIPS Switzerland 🇨🇭 and Capgemini hosted the first edition of The Invisible Chain in Zurich. I opened the evening together with Martin

20 Jun 20267 min read min
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Your Supply Chain AI Vendor Got a New Point of Failure - Government.

On Friday 12 June, the two most capable AI model in commercial deployment was switched off by government directive. Here is what I think

14 Jun 20264 min read min
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Asymmetric supply chains: the other face of chaos

A super El Niño is forming over the Pacific. It is the clearest illustration yet of why asymmetry in agri-food supply chains cuts

02 Jun 20265 min read min
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Supply Chain Doesn't Run on Org Charts. Hierarchy Was the Workaround.

One recent number is worth sitting with. Gartner forecasted in their April publication $53 billion in agentic AI supply chain spend by 2030, up

22 Apr 20267 min read min
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What Meta Just Taught Us About ERPs and Agents

A new paper from Meta AI maps three eras of supply chain intelligence - from ERP extensions to agent harnesses to something nobody in the

18 Apr 20266 min read min
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Boyd's Loop Was Built for Pilots. Agentic AI Needs OODAA.

Why the OODA loop breaks down for autonomous AI systems and what a fifth phase (Adapt) changes. Introducing OODAA for agentic supply chain orchestration.

12 Apr 20266 min read min
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Bring Your Agent - Rethinking Prospects of Supply Chain Jobs and Hiring

Newsletter Issue #5: Bring your agent - how AI agents will reshape supply chain jobs, hiring, and the definition of individual productivity in operations.

06 Apr 20263 min read min
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The Wrong Question That Supply Chain Is Getting Asked About AI - The ROI Conflict

Newsletter Issue #4: Why the ROI question supply chain keeps getting asked about AI is fundamentally wrong. Insights from the Swiss Supply Chain & Logistics Conference.

30 Mar 20267 min read min
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Blueprint #3: Agentic Supply Chain: Multi-Agent Architecture

Blueprint #3: Agentic supply chain multi-agent architecture. Visual reference for designing autonomous AI agent systems across procurement, logistics, and planning.

22 Mar 2026