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Supply Chain Shaman

Category: Change Management
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Lead Time: A Broken Gossamer

If you are struggling with supply chain planning, dancing in the light of shiny objects, and scratching your head, please read on. My goal is to help you.

Please do not AI Stupid. What do I mean? AI Stupid is putting agents and agentics on top of existing architectures believing that making them faster and hands free add value. To me, this is fools play.

I love AI. I am excited about new technologies. To this end, I want to shine a light on how new technologies can help address the black holes and inconsistencies in today’s supply chain, which largely stem from the limitations of the first generation of supply chain planning and execution technologies. In this blog, I give you three places to start.

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July 16, 2026 No Comments
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Do You Need a Supply Chain Coach?

Supply chain is where the rubber hits the road. For a public company, over 40% of market capitalization is tied to the trade-offs between growth, operating margin, inventory management, and Return on Capital Employed.

The road for supply chain improvement is fraught with issues. Here we share some and offer some advice.

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July 9, 2026 No Comments
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Case Study: A Scrappy Demand Management Approach

This study of Franklin Sports shines a light on the work that needs to be done at the sales account level to challenge a retail forecast, and also highlights the importance of a new technique for a forecast engine — reinforcement learning.

Artificial intelligence comes in many forms — large language models, generative AI, machine learning, unstructured text mining, deep learning, neural networks, reinforcement learning, agents, and agentics. While the industry is wigging out about agentics, I think reinforcement learning is a great step forward in the journey of Artificial Intelligence.

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June 9, 2026 No Comments
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Mea Culpa

Reflection and restatement of formerly held beliefs of supply chain management by Lora Cecere.

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May 10, 2024 No Comments
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Not To Be A Losing Pawn

When I was a teenager, I spent afternoons after school with my dad. As he lost his vision to macular degeneration, he taught me to

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November 21, 2023 No Comments
Change Management

A short post on the current state of supply chain planning. The what, the so what and the struggle with solving the business problem today.

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November 1, 2023 No Comments
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