Theme: “Hype vs. Reality?"
The Hype:
“AI will revolutionize everything!” including supply chains. And why not? The promises are alluring:
● Hyper-Efficiency: Imagine warehouses humming with AI-driven robots, optimizing routes, and stacking boxes like Tetris masters.
● Predictive Powers: AI algorithms foresee demand spikes, stock shortages, giving the supply chain power to deal with Just in Time or Just in Case
● Cost Slashing: Say goodbye to wastage, excess inventory, and inefficiencies say good bye to all spreadsheets.
But what is the reality?
The Reality/Challenges:
● Data Dilemmas: AI thrives on data, but our supply chain data is often a messy stew. Incomplete, outdated, or downright cryptic.
● Human-AI interface: Sure, AI can provide answers like predicting demand, but is our supply chain talent comfortable with adopting it, will the data be trusted, how good is the human-AI interface.
● Scale Struggles: Scaling AI from a cool pilot project to enterprise-wide adoption? The challenges are many.
Gen-AI: The Wild Card
Will you be negotiating with a Gen-AI tool like Pactum? What is the reality of Gen-AI in supply chains and what will it take to mature?
This is intended to be a freewheeling discussion looking at the scenario today and in future for AI adoption at scale in supply chains.
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Why Attend
Executives who have attended Houston Strategy Forum discussions have reported their careers have greatly benefited because of what they have learned at our forums.
This is an intimate, limited-group discussion. Make sure you reserve your place right away.
About Conclaves
Conclaves are intimate roundtable discussions where every participant contributes in their preferred manner. We follow Chatham House Rules so that the conclaves are conducted in a safe zone.
Ms. Srividhya Vaidyanathan
20+ years of global experience in Energy, Strategy, Supply Chains
Global Supply Chain Strategy & Process Transformation
Shell
Ms. Sri Vaidyanathan is an accomplished strategist with over two decades of unparalleled expertise in the energy sector. Sri's remarkable journey commenced at Shell, where her exceptional aptitude for business planning and corporate strategy quickly left an indelible mark. Her extensive global exposure has endowed her with a distinctive perspective, enabling her to drive transformative contributions across the Downstream, Midstream, and Upstream sectors.
Beyond crafting strategies, Sri excels in catalyzing business transformations to propel growth. Her mastery of strategy development tools, such as scenario planning and design thinking, has been instrumental in delivering remarkable outcomes.
Renowned for her ability to pinpoint opportunities and instigate growth, Sri's strategic interventions in have yielded substantial value creation, exemplified by guiding Shell's successful entry into India's retail market.
In her unwavering pursuit of sustainability, Sri leads initiatives aimed at quantifying and reducing Scope3 emissions and has developed an influential strategy for Hydrogen, influencing $700M in spend.
Armed with a profound understanding of geopolitics and its impact on the energy sector, combined with her decision-quality acumen, Sri brings a rich and valuable set of experiences into the industry.
A sought-after speaker and prolific thought leader, Sri's dynamic presence on LinkedIn reflects her thoughts on a compelling sustainable future for energy.
Sri's distinguished academic accolades, including her Chartered Financial Analyst and Cost and Management Accountant credentials, coupled with her pursuit of an Executive Doctorate in Business Administration at the University of Houston, underscore her unyielding commitment to continuous learning.
With dynamic leadership, strategic prowess, and a learner mindset, Sri stands to bring immense value to downstream strategy, embodying resilience, and an ambitious vision for the future of the energy sector.