An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
Obviously, if you could predict the future, and execute on that prediction before your competitors, you would have an incredible business edge. Most of us aren’t able to do that, so we try to do better forecasting exercises to anticipate future demand and position our products and services for an uncertain future, and then take action on that plan as quickly as possible.
Kinaxis offers a strategic supply chain planning platform that orchestrates specialized agents, real-time analytics, and automation assets to conduct continuous outcome-oriented decisionmaking cycles, in order to align a company’s capabilities and human expertise for faster and more accurate responses to ever-changing upstream and downstream constraints and opportunities.
Their Maestro concurrent planning platform rides atop the enterprise’s existing operations platforms and data sources. Their agentic AI framework uses a semantic data fabric that captures the operational realities of a supply chain, as well as the relationships and data that supports it. A human flow planner makes decisions, while the outcome of each agile planning adjustment informs machine learning skills for specialized agents to conduct autonomous actions and multi-agent interactions.
Intellyx hot take: There’s a future for “outcome engineers” who can understand the real business requirements as well as the technical capabilities and constraints in play for each scenario. These individuals might seem difficult to find, but AI backed by a deep knowledge base and machine learning for continuous improvement could help bring future decision makers into a higher flow state so they can minimize blind spots and apply their own domain expertise to improve agentic workflows and execution.
Intellyx cold take: Many companies are still mired in supply chain planning processes that haven’t evolved much since the nineties, including huge batch ERP joins and analyses, and even some spreadsheet-based artifacts. Executive leaders and operators will need to change rearward-looking mindsets before they are open to modern outcome-based planning and orchestration capabilities.
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