TPM24 Academy: From Supply Chains to Demand Loops — How the Fusion of AI and System Dynamics Will Revolutionize Global Trade
Ask any businessperson what the newest thing in supply chain management is and they’ll invariably say “artificial intelligence.” All the hype notwithstanding and tempered with a dose of skepticism, it’s not an exaggeration to state that the application of AI to demand planning, purchasing, manufacturing, distribution planning and logistics can materially alter the way international trade is conducted. Despite its bright future, this session begins with the heresy that AI will be incapable of generating order-of- magnitude benefits until linear supply chain mindsets are abandoned for a circular, demand-based philosophy. Founded on the tenets of “System Dynamics,” the presentation’s core hypothesis is that AI’s potential will be reached only when folks stop engaging in silo-based cause-and-effect decision-making and start treating the dynamics between international business players as an array of interdependent and ever-changing feedback loops. In what will be a revolutionary perspective on operational execution, join us as we demonstrate how the future of trade lies in the fusion of AI with the organic tenets of Systems Thinking. By no means a futuristic view of trade, this here-and-now methodology will allow companies to avoid what can aptly be referred to as “Blockchain Syndrome” and prove once and for all that AI is capable of being much more intelligent than artificial.
Content of this 90-minute presentation will include:
• The original definition of Artificial Intelligence
• System Dynamics defined
• AI for demand planning
• Pitfalls of linear supply chain thinking
• Using AI to integrate purchasing and logistics
• What the heck is a “Feedback Loop”?
• AI, product sales and distribution planning
• Applying systems thinking to global trade
• The big winner: Sales and operations planning
• Case Study: Valentina’s Fashion House