Books, articles, essays & masterclasses.

How generative AI is moving beyond process automation to transform logistics, forecasting, and real-time supply chain decision-making.

McKinsey Global Supply Chain Leader Survey 2024 — findings on where supply chain risks stand and what leaders are doing about resilience.

How digital technologies and geographic diversification are building resilience — and why leaders should not become complacent.

The case for elevating supply chain leadership to the boardroom — podcast and feature article.

Operations Blog feature on the book and the C-suite case for supply chain leadership.

McKinsey's global survey on how supply chains are evolving in response to disruption, resilience demands, and digitization.

How companies can move from reactive to proactive supply chain risk management.

How companies can identify and close the skill gaps that limit their ability to transform supply chain performance.

The case for continuous, closed-loop, AI-driven planning as a replacement for traditional S&OP cycles.

A discussion with Airbus leaders on what genuine supply chain resilience looks like in practice.

Analysis of lasting structural changes in global supply chains following pandemic disruptions.

How AI and advanced analytics are transforming supply chain planning and operations across industries including metals and mining.

How companies can rebuild their supply chains for a post-COVID world.

Why the COVID-19 crisis has forced risk management back onto the supply chain agenda.

An early framework for crisis response and long-term planning during the COVID-19 disruption.

How supply-chain organization design affects overall business performance — based on analysis of more than 50 companies across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Identifies the new skill sets companies need to operate digital supply chains and how to close the gaps.

How digital technologies — autonomous robots, advanced analytics, and integrated S&OP — are transforming consumer goods supply chains.

How Sky Deutschland achieved a 20% productivity increase and nearly 40% reduction in warehousing costs through operational transformation.

Why few companies have yet applied "big analytics" techniques that could transform their supply chain management — and how to start.

How advanced analytics techniques can transform supply chain performance once the data landscape is in place.

How lean manufacturing techniques can eliminate cost across the supply chain.

How scenario-based planning is becoming the critical next step for companies seeking to address supply-demand imbalances more effectively in S&OP.

How digital and technology disruptions are fundamentally reshaping supply chain roles — and what organizations must do to redesign their workforce.

What a multi-agent S&OP simulation taught us about the one thing every transformation tries to build — and almost none manage to keep. Five functional agents (Sales, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Finance) plan for a mid-size manufacturer on a real APS engine, each with two behavioural dials: locality and trust. The finding: trust is not a sentiment you install through workshops, it is the equilibrium your incentive structure sustains. Misaligned incentives cost roughly €400,000 of EBITDA a year, four of five functions watch their local scorecards improve while company profit falls, and half-measures on alignment capture only 29% of the value.

Why five years of shocks have not made us resilient — grey rhinos versus black swans, the Strait of Hormuz as a choke point nobody has fully mapped, and the three numbers (Days of Awareness, Survival, Recovery) that would tell you whether you are resilient. Based on the Felgendreher & Friends masterclass with Nico Nürbchen (SVP Global Supply Chain, Olympus).

A comparison of musical and logistical sequencing problems — analyzing Duke Ellington's "Satin Doll" mathematically and turning a real container terminal's crane schedule into a playable three-voice score, and what both reveal about AI planning copilots.

Strategic Outlook to the Future of Supply Chains 2040 — why resilience, not efficiency, will define winning supply chains over the next two decades.

A personal experiment in AI-assisted supply chain planning — what I built, what surprised me, and what it means for the future of S&OP.

Why supply chains have been running on human memory for 30 years — and what changes now. Also cross-published in Supply Chain Management Review.