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AI your planners would actually act on.

Operations can’t act on an answer that doesn’t match the system of record. Our supply chain programs are built on one standard: every flag traces to your source data, every exception has an owner, and decisions that move orders, inventory or suppliers keep their approvals.

FROM OUR WORK

A global business-process services firm brought Flatiron in to build AI and data science capability across its supply chain teams. The program was taught by builders with supply chain experience, so the solutions were built to last.

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The work we train on

Recurring operations work, made decision-ready.

  1. 01Exception reporting and daily operations reviews
  2. 02Demand and supply planning commentary and S&OP preparation
  3. 03Supplier performance, risk and communications
  4. 04Inventory, order and shipment status reporting
  5. 05SOPs, handoffs and site briefings

One use case, three labs

Exception reporting, from idea to production.

01
Leadership Lab

Decide where AI changes supply chain

The COO’s team identifies where AI changes planning cadence, response time, service levels and team capacity, and picks exception reporting as a 90-day priority.

Operations opportunity map and 90-day goals

02
Activation Lab

Build an exception-review skill

Planners and analysts package a skill that takes an approved system extract, applies your thresholds, separates what needs a decision today from what can wait, and drafts a summary with an owner on every flag.

Tested skill, shared with the team

03
Builder Lab

Surface what needs a decision, every day

A daily workflow gathers approved data from your systems of record, applies your exception rules, drafts the decision brief, assigns owners, and routes escalations to the right lead.

Pilot workflow with baseline vs. pilot results

// HOW WE JUDGE THE WORK

Graded against an operations rubric, not a completion bar.

Every skill and workflow is tested against normal cases, edge cases and known failure modes before it's shared: promotions and seasonal spikes, supplier disruptions, master-data errors, missing data. We red-team for plausible but wrong quantities and dates.

Data accuracy
Every flag matches the system of record
Prioritization
What needs a decision today comes first
Coverage
No material exception goes unflagged
Ownership
Every flag has a named owner
Repeatability
Same data, same flags
Control compliance
Changes to orders, inventory and suppliers keep their approvals

Who's in the room

A builder and a supply chain leader, teaching together.

Technical instructor
Experienced with skills, projects, spreadsheets and enterprise connectors in your platform. Runs the labs and troubleshooting.
Supply chain practitioner
A supply chain planning leader, operations executive or operations-transformation practitioner. Judges whether the output would survive review.
Your team
Supply chain systems, data owners, information security and AI governance step in where their approval is needed.

Start with your operations leadership team.

A Leadership Lab configured for supply chain: four hours, your problems, a 90-day plan.

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