#Supply Chain

4 posts with this tag.

• Too Central to Fail: Finding the Suppliers That Can Take Down a Network

  Published: Jun 11, 2026

  • 8 min read

  The supplier that fails and takes your whole operation with it is rarely your biggest line of spend. It is the one buried three tiers deep that forty other parts quietly depend on. Notes on network analysis, cascading disruption, and building supplier-risk scores an operator can actually act on.

• Why Supply Chain AI Fails at the Last Mile

  Published: May 14, 2026

  • 9 min read

  The hardest part of supply chain AI is not the forecast. It is the handoff — the moment a probabilistic recommendation reaches a human planner who has to decide whether to trust it. Notes on the trust gap between a recommendation and an action, from the seat of a Kinaxis subject-matter expert.

• Building Risk Intelligence Systems That Institutions Can Trust

  Published: Dec 1, 2025

  • 12 min read

  Lessons from building AI-powered vulnerability detection for financial institutions and supply chain operators. The hard part is never the algorithm.

• Rethinking Supply Chain Planning with Probabilistic AI

  Published: Nov 18, 2024

  • 14 min read

  Most supply chain software treats uncertainty as noise to be smoothed away. I've been building something that treats it as the actual input. Some thoughts on why deterministic MRP is fundamentally broken and what a better model looks like.