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$9 Billion for Nothing: the Stealth AI Bet That Reaches Your Loading Dock
Six labs most supply chain professionals have never heard of have raised $15.56 billion. 58% of it went to two labs that have shipped nothing at all.
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Your Supplier Isn’t Offering a Discount. They’re Offering You 29.8%
The price-break EOQ math says buy 600 units instead of 87 and save $6,566…
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AI Model Distillation, Explained: The Compression Trick Behind the $589 Billion Monday
A single Chinese app knocked $589 billion off Nvidia in one day. The trick…
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Forecasting & Demand Planning
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I Raced Amazon’s Forecasting AI Against a 66-Year-Old Formula. The Formula Won.
I put Amazon’s zero-shot forecasting AI against five classical models on 148 real retail series. A formula from 1960 beat a 205-million-parameter model by 14 to 16%.
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Does Your Forecast Beat a Sticky Note? The Placebo Test for Demand Planning
Your forecast has exactly one job: beat a sticky note that says ‘same as last year.’ Most don’t. Here’s the placebo test that proves it.
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30 Books Every Forecaster, Demand Planner, and S&OP Lead Should Read — The Inphronesys Bookshelf
An interactive 30-book bookshelf for forecasters, demand planners, S&OP leads, supply chain strategists, and the data scientists who keep them honest. Filter by category and level, build a…
Supply Chain Operations
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$9 Billion for Nothing: the Stealth AI Bet That Reaches Your Loading Dock
Six labs most supply chain professionals have never heard of have raised $15.56 billion. 58% of it went to two labs that have shipped nothing at all.
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I Let AI Agents Play a 5-Year Beer Game: Why Sharing Data Beat Buying a Smarter Model
I ran the classic Beer Game for 260 weeks with AI agents in the chairs. Giving the chain real customer demand cut in-game cost by up to 40…
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Your Exception Report Is Lying to You: How to Make ‘1% False Alarms’ Actually Mean 1%
A static ±3σ band promised 0.27% false alarms and delivered 3.80%. Here is how to turn your exception threshold from a statistics setting into an honest attention budget.
Procurement & Sourcing
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Your Supplier Isn’t Offering a Discount. They’re Offering You 29.8%
The price-break EOQ math says buy 600 units instead of 87 and save $6,566 a year. Then a carrying rate above 29.8% flips the answer. Here are the…
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Sole Source: The $900k Median Problem Your Dual-Source Checkbox Won’t Fix
The dual-source flag teams buy to feel safe moves the median cost of a disruption about $44k. In the wrong direction. The dependency nobody flags moves it $474k.
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The Resilience Ladder: Why the Things You Buy to Feel Safe Don’t Save You
I pulled 3,000 disruptions to find what separates firms that survive a shock from firms that bleed. The dual-source checkbox wasn’t it.
Strategy & Leadership
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The Algorithm and the Skunk Works: It’s Latency, Not Size, That Kills Innovation
Kelly Johnson built jets in a tent in 143 days. Sixty years later Elon Musk landed rockets with almost the same rulebook. Neither copied the other, and the…
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Four Masters, One Boardroom: A 2,500-Year Operating System for Strategy
Four dead strategists, one boardroom, roughly 2,500 years of canon. Here is the four-layer model that stacks them, and the verified reading list to build it yourself.
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Of the Fox and the Lion: Coercion, Cunning, and Modern Power
Machiavelli’s Chapter 17 and 18 are routinely misread. Force without cunning is brittle. Bonds of love break under stress. Here is what actually holds.
AI & Data Science
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AI Model Distillation, Explained: The Compression Trick Behind the $589 Billion Monday
A single Chinese app knocked $589 billion off Nvidia in one day. The trick behind the panic has a boring name and a fascinating story.
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A 3-Point Gap and a 42x Price Cut: The Open-Weight AI Landscape, July 2026
The best open-weight model now trails the closed frontier by three points of measured intelligence and costs a third of the price. For anyone routing thousands of tasks…
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GLM-5.2 and the Benchmark Trap: How One Score Becomes Two Headlines
A Chinese open-weight model just topped the leaderboards and undercut GPT-5.5 on price by 7x. Then the benchmark tables started disagreeing with each other.