AI for Advanced Planning and Supply Chain

I’ve been applying AI to a problem I’ve worked on for years: advanced planning and supply chain.

These are hard problems. Multiple variables. Competing constraints. Incomplete information. Decisions that cascade across time horizons. Traditional software helps, but it doesn’t think. It executes rules. It doesn’t weigh tradeoffs the way an experienced planner does.

Large language models change this. Not because they replace planners — they don’t — but because they can hold complexity in a way that spreadsheets and dashboards can’t. They can reason through scenarios. They can surface considerations you hadn’t thought to ask about.

I’ve been building custom solutions to work with these models on sensitive planning problems. The key is keeping the data local and the reasoning private. Enterprise AI isn’t about uploading your supply chain to someone else’s servers. It’s about bringing the intelligence to your data, on your terms.

I can’t share specifics — this work is confidential. But I can say that the combination of domain expertise and AI reasoning is more powerful than either alone. The models don’t know your business. You do. But they can help you think through it faster and more completely.

This is where AI consulting is heading: not replacing experts, but amplifying them.