Supply ChAIngeA Supply Chain & AI Podcast
with Derek Aranda
A podcast for leaders testing what happens when supply chain meets AI in the real world.
Operator-first. Systems thinking. No vendor hype.
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“The rise of cognitive and agentic AI may create a credible path toward more autonomous supply chains. But only if leadership, culture, governance, data, and economics evolve together.”
This podcast doesn't assume autonomy is inevitable, desirable, or universally appropriate. Each episode tests the thesis against operator experience, executive decision-making, and system-level constraints.
Framing → constraints → real outcomes → judgment.
Foundations
Definitions, leadership, culture, data, governance, and the economics that determine whether autonomy is credible.
In the Wild
Plan · Source · Make · Deliver. Real use cases tested, including what had to be true, and where it broke.
Decisions
Where autonomy is the wrong answer, what mattered more, and how leaders should decide what to automate, augment, or leave human.
CSCOs, CIOs, CFOs, senior operations leaders, and the directors and practitioners actually implementing this. Built for the tension between short-term ROI pressure and long-term operating-model change.
Derek Aranda
Derek Aranda spent over two decades as a global executive operating across commercial, supply chain, and digital transformation roles at scale. That span across the full value chain shapes his lens: the decisions, incentives, trust, economics, and governance that determine whether technology actually works inside real supply chains.
Operator with a story?
Pitch a guest, a topic, or a story that tests the thesis. Guests are selected for real experience.