I've spent more than a decade helping organizations with the complexity of supply chain planning. Today I work where supply chains, strategy and AI meet.https://ananthashankar.com/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/rip-jev/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/rip-jev/RIP Jev (September 2026-October 2026)! The joke just writes itself - Jev created a new product category and three weeks later OpenAI comes with a distribution model!Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIStrategyhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/why-the-next-big-shopper-is-not-a-person/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/why-the-next-big-shopper-is-not-a-person/Muse and Instinct have been going viral - in the US. And I am pretty sure, it is coming to Europe too (maybe next year 🙃) But are brands prepared for it? are they ready for Agentic Commerce?Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIStrategyhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/open-letter-from-an-enterprise-architect/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/open-letter-from-an-enterprise-architect/- Dec 24th, 2032.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:05:00 GMTAIStrategyhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/gpt-6-astra-benchmarks/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/gpt-6-astra-benchmarks/GPT-6 Astra was launched less than a week ago! I have been following the news behind it - and vicariously enjoying people being blown away by it. It was one-shotting "so many cool use cases" (I ran through my credit limit before I could finish my "cool" use case). Jensen Huang was congratulating…Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAISupply chainhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/sap-joule-studio-and-harness-engineering/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/sap-joule-studio-and-harness-engineering/Now that it's been a couple of weeks since I got back from SAP Sapphire Madrid 2026 — enough time to filter the signal from the noise.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:42:00 GMTAISupply chainhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/user-stories-mandates-and-evals/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/user-stories-mandates-and-evals/The same week your team kicks off an agentic AI initiative, someone opens Jira and starts writing user stories. Nobody stops them. Nobody thinks to.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIImplementationSupply chainhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/statistics-and-ai/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/statistics-and-ai/Recently, i read a comment from Aishwarya Srinivasan where she mentionedThu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/deepseek-china-ai-race/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/deepseek-china-ai-race/Deepseek is everywhere! and the hype train is going bonkers! $1.5 trillion in stock market value vanished yesterday! This shows how little the public understand GenAI! Does this mean that China is asserting its dominance? and that USA is losing in this GenAI battle? Well, read on to get more…Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIStrategyhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/leapfrogging-the-maturity-model/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/leapfrogging-the-maturity-model/If you have spoken with a consultant from a reputed consulting firm, chances are that you would have seen some form of maturity model or the other. One can trace the origins of maturity model back to 1993 when Capability maturity model was introduced for software development. Originally a…Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:01:00 GMTStrategyImplementationhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/future-proof-your-supply-chain-with-ibp/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/future-proof-your-supply-chain-with-ibp/Markets, technologies and supply chain challenges are evolving at breakneck speed. Yesterday’s solutions, such as outsourcing, are the cause of today’s problems. Disruptions are dime a dozen and demand are going to be unpredictable. The confluence of technologies such as smartphone apps, long…Thu, 31 May 2018 17:17:00 GMTSupply chainStrategyhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/impact-of-iot-on-your-sop-process/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/impact-of-iot-on-your-sop-process/Internet of Things was poised to become a pervasive technology but hasn’t lived up to its expectations yet. Beyond its highly popular use cases of smart homes, intelligent transportation, and smart cities, there has not been the kind of acceptance in the Enterprise IoT space as was predicted a…Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:03:00 GMTSupply chainS&OPhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/sop-and-product-review/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/sop-and-product-review/Kids love toys. They love to play with them and it keeps them occupied giving parents the breathing space they deserve. As kids grow bigger, the toys they play with change. Once the kid is bored with his toy, or if he sees his friend play with a new toy, he instantly craves for a new toy. This…Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:29:00 GMTSupply chainS&OPhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/tracing-the-evolution-of-sop-and-ibp/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/tracing-the-evolution-of-sop-and-ibp/What exactly is the difference between Sales and Operations Planning and Integrated Business Planning? This is a highly debated question and we have a lot of supply chain gurus pitching in with their opinions. While some feel that IBP is a marketing hoax, primarily created by the consultants,…Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:13:00 GMTSupply chainS&OPhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/sop-manager-the-godfather-of-supply-chain/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/sop-manager-the-godfather-of-supply-chain/“Great men are not born great, they grow great…” \- Mario Puzo, GodfatherThu, 22 Jun 2017 16:03:00 GMTSupply chainS&OPhttps://ananthashankar.com/writing/sop-the-big-fat-supply-chain-wedding/https://ananthashankar.com/writing/sop-the-big-fat-supply-chain-wedding/Fairy tale stories are abundant with boy-meet-girl-and-they-live-happily-ever-after type of stories. But as we grew up, we realize that real world is nothing like a fairy tale and that there are a lot of shocking twists and surprising turns that alter this narrative. Supply chain management is no…Sun, 04 Jun 2017 18:20:00 GMTSupply chainS&OP