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Supply Chain Operations / AI for Supply Chain Management Solutions and Implementation

Eighty Four Group Consulting is an advisory, education, and decision support firm focused on AI for supply chain management solutions and implementation.

The next SCM bullwhip may very likely be machine-made….Yes, by agentic shopping agents. The precedent?...On May 6, 2010,...
10/07/2026

The next SCM bullwhip may very likely be machine-made….Yes, by agentic shopping agents. The precedent?...

On May 6, 2010, U.S. markets plunged and rebounded within minutes. A large automated sell algorithm (a.k.a agent) followed volume but ignored price and time. It interacted with high-frequency strategies, liquidity disappeared, and a five-second pause helped restore order.

The "agent" lesson is clear and very plausible for supply chains.

Individually rational algorithms can create collectively irrational systems.

And the question? Who is guarding and architecting against this?

Agentic commerce is moving from demo to transaction at speed.

Shopping agents can read inventory, build carts and complete purchases. Some retailers are opening catalogues and checkout paths. Others are restricting agents over data, fraud and customer-control concerns. Payment networks are developing common ways to identify and authenticate purchasing agents. The approach is inconsistent.

Most commentary sees lower friction, but I see new bullwhip risk potential.

Imagine this loop:

A consumer agent detects scarcity and reserves the same SKU at three retailers.
Retailer pricing agents raise the price.
Promotion agents redirect demand to substitutes.
Replenishment agents treat reservations and order velocity as consumption.
Procurement agents increase POs.
Supplier agents tighten capacity allocations.
The consumer agent cancels two reservations when one ships.

Everything worked as designed.

The overall system did not. A.k.a BULLWHIP

The old, traditional bullwhip amplified demand because information was delayed, batched or distorted.

Today’s new agentic bullwhip could amplify it because information is instant, reactions are correlated, and software acts before the network knows whether the signal is real or not.

It is a credible design risk.

In experiments, independent AI pricing algorithms learned supracompetitive prices without communicating. Supply-chain agents may also learn from one another’s actions, even when no one designed them to cooperate.

The answer is not banning agents. It is adding market-style controls:

• Transaction and value limits by agent, SKU and time window
• Authenticated orders and duplicate-order prevention
• Short reservation expiries and payment proof
• Rate limits, circuit breakers and kill switches
• Separation of searches, carts, reservations, paid orders and fulfilled demand
• Digital-twin stress tests before autonomy
• Cross-agent observability and decision lineage
• Human approval for abnormal volume, price or capacity moves.

A faster order is not value if it creates duplicate demand, expedites excess inventory or propogates markdowns.

Are we building smarter supply-chain decisions, or simply accelerating every participant’s reaction time?

AI for SCM smartly! Be prepared!

JOIN US Online: Thu, Oct 15th, 1:00p-1:45p EST. For a great hands-on session around putting AI TO WORK in supply chain o...
10/07/2026

JOIN US Online: Thu, Oct 15th, 1:00p-1:45p EST. For a great hands-on session around putting AI TO WORK in supply chain operations. People + Process + Tools for ROCE success.

In this 45 minute session, we will connect AI and workflow automation approaches to what actually moves the P&L: profitability, working capital, and ROCE.

We will chat around:

- Context and deployment strategies / approaches for real success
- Putting inventory to work instead of leaving it in storage
- Surfacing margin improvement opportunities current reporting approaches today miss.
- Highlighting where AI genuinely adds value vs. where straightforward automation is the better tool

And a few BONUS items!

You'll also leave with a repeatable way to pick use cases and build business cases your CFO can pressure-test, separating time saved, cash released, and profit earned from implementation and ongoing costs.

We all know the tech works.

It's time TO MAKE AI DELIVER!

Registration (no cost) details: Make AI Deliver: Unlock Cash and Margin in Your Supply Chain

📅 Thu Oct 15th, 2026
⏰ 1:00 PM EST
📹 Online Zoom Event
🎟️ Registration Link: https://luma.com/yan3bvr2

Special thanks to the Parabola Events team!

AI for SCM / Logistics Trend Report - Week Ending Sat Oct 3rd 2026. FOLLOW FOR WEEKLY AI for SCM UPDATESThis week's take...
10/07/2026

AI for SCM / Logistics Trend Report - Week Ending Sat Oct 3rd 2026. FOLLOW FOR WEEKLY AI for SCM UPDATES

This week's take?

-----> WHAT THIS MEANS?

- MORE ACCESS: More write-action, controlled access being granted to current ERP, WMS, TMS, APS legacy systems for transaction ex*****on. Organizations are furthering the move beyond a chat and suggestion only.

-----> SIGNALS TO WATCH?

- ARE WE AT RISK?: Alot of AI point solutions are trending, but are we as an industry solving real supply chain and logistics problems? Or still too siloed focus?

----->BEST MOVE OF THE WEEK?

- BARRET DISTRIBUTION: Barrett Distribution Centers, Inc. expanded its partnership with UNIT AI for a planned 2027 deployment connecting inventory, fulfillment and returns across its national warehouse network. The initial scope includes distributed inventory placement, fulfillment orchestration, network visibility and decentralized returns.

FOLLOW FOR WEEKLY UPDATES

The 8th Rule of AI for SCM: AI success is really ROCE improvement success wrapped in today's tech blanketOne clear patte...
08/29/2026

The 8th Rule of AI for SCM: AI success is really ROCE improvement success wrapped in today's tech blanket

One clear pattern that has emerged, whether is physical AI success, or more traditional AI for SCM success within Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Return activities. Is that the strongest use case successes, remain those where teams start with a high-value (customer perceived) decision e.g. replenishment, allocation, routing, forecasting, or SC operations ex*****on, then apply AI ONLY where it improves DECISION speed, quality, and consistency in the redesigned workflow.

In other words, the 1st principles ROCE IMPACTING approach.

Should be no surprise following lessons and learnings from earlier era ERP, cloud, and other tech-influenced automation cycles.

Technology creates TRUE value ONLY when paired with workflow redesign, clear decision rights, consistent, useable and reliable data, as well as disciplined adoption.

That combination of tech, with good people and process design is what makes Zara, Zara and Amazon, Amazon to draw a few examples we know.

Yes, it’s really hard to avoid the shiny-object syndrome and cool tech buzz.
But we have to put on the blinkers and around model sophistication chatter, silo-solution-only discussions, token consumption scores, or the number of pilots launched metrics.

Hamster wheel activities and metrics.

ROCE improvement is the ONLY enduring and TRUE AI SUCCESS metric.

That's what customers reward you for when you improve processes that matter to them. And what the CFO and stakeholders toast ch*****ne to.

So.

AI for SCM smartly! Let’s go!!!

Keep the DMs coming for all things AI for SCM related.

Happy Friday Friends! Have a great weekend!!!


Tariffs are continuing and will continue to expose your inventory design and network strategies in real-time. Are you fu...
08/24/2026

Tariffs are continuing and will continue to expose your inventory design and network strategies in real-time. Are you fully prepared to still maximize margin over the short, medium and long-term?

The latest round of tariffs is not a blanket “50% USMCA tariff.” Since Aug. 22, U.S. Section 338 duties apply to selected Canadian goods or about US$20B/C$28B, just over 5% of Canada’s U.S. exports, even when those goods qualify under USMCA.

Canada confirms dollar-for-dollar countermeasures beginning Sept. 8. Target sectors include steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. But the final product list and rates are still pending.

So, your questions now should not stop at, “How much should we stockpile?”

You should be carefully assessing the ongoing tariff actions as an inventory-flow and capital problem presenting as a negotiation impasse.

We know tariffs reduce EBIT. And knee-jerk, panic inventory increases capital employed, carrying cost and obsolescence. But, be reminded that you avoid duty today but damage ROCE and reduced margins appear tomorrow.

So what are the best 5 things to act on now?

1. Understand and Map exposure at SKU level. – CRITICAL – Contact us ASAP if you don’t have the tools to do so.

Canada→U.S.: Match each SKU to the Section 338 HTS annex, origin, entered value, customer, Incoterm and margin.

U.S.→Canada: Model the announced sectors now, but act from the final Canadian schedule, not headlines.

2. Time and defer selectively. – CRITICAL – Contact us ASAP in you need network / partner help

Canada→U.S.: Tariffs are live. Assess bonded storage, eligible Chapter 98 treatment and drawback for re-exports.

U.S.→Canada: Once the final list confirms exposure, pull forward only firm, fast-moving demand with a positive landed-margin case. With your Canadian importer, assess CBSA duty deferral.

3. Assess your product design.

Re-source components, change the bill of materials, postpone final configuration or localize real production. Seek rulings where classification or origin is unclear. Routing through a third country to disguise origin is evasion, not strategy.

4. Redesign inventory and the network.

Protect high-margin, service-critical SKUs. Slow, substitute or redirect exposed low-turn items. Test destination inventory, dual sourcing, co-manufacturing and alternative export markets. Remember: a warehouse move changes timing, service and cash, not origin.

5. Rewrite the commercial operating model.

Reset prices, tariff clauses, Incoterms and importer-of-record responsibility. Run a weekly tariff S&OE review tracking duty per unit, margin after tariff, DIO, stockout risk, obsolete exposure and ROCE.

You need a stronger margin maximizing approach that involves customs, product design, inventory, network, contracts and finance at SKU level.

Annual reviews will make tariff volatility permanent

Act today.

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The 7th Rule of AI for SCM: It's not the size of AI in the workflow. It's the size of workflow in the AISupply Chain AI ...
08/22/2026

The 7th Rule of AI for SCM: It's not the size of AI in the workflow. It's the size of workflow in the AI

Supply Chain AI Needs Less AI (power), Not More....Hear me out...

Common marketing advice: Get the newest frontier model, add some context a.k.a -Knowledge Graph (yes sounds fancy!), let the frontier model company's agent run everything.

Then sit back and relax

Right?

Wrong!

Better more realistic approach? Put the model inside a GOVERNED workflow.

Use code for fixed rules and deterministic, repetitive math, example, reorder points, FEFO, approvals and financial math.

Use smaller models for sorting and coordination.

Save the (expensive) frontier models for real ambiguity: exceptions and scenarios and user interfacing.

That is cheaper, faster and easier to test.

And most importantly: Inputs, rules, overrides and actions stay TRACEABLE.

Best-practice engineering guidance supports simple workflows, right-sized models and deterministic steps when exact ex*****on matters.

Remember: Vibe-coding can start a demo (It's great for that!)

But it DEFINITELY should not control key items e.g inventory cash.

The model is a COMPONENT. Not the story.

The workflow is the CONTROL system.

AI for SCM smartly! Let’s go!!!

Keep the DMs coming for all things AI for SCM related.

Happy Friday Friends! Have a great weekend!!!


The majority of c-suite and execs are honestly still drowning and struggling with successful AI for SCM implementations....
08/11/2026

The majority of c-suite and execs are honestly still drowning and struggling with successful AI for SCM implementations. For understandable reasons. But it’s coming and your competitors are or will be embracing it. So, finding a way is essential.

Some quick reminders on why we are here (will be bumpy for a while) and tips to keep you sane and focused on ultimate prize of ROCE improvement.

Why are we here?

Simply put. Vested interests…

There model providers have to hype their high valuation model products on every news cycle. But you can and really should ignore most of it. Unless you need that frontier model for managing 500 million SKUs across 5,000 DCs.

The SaaS (ERP / APS) vendors have to sell you on "AI this" and "AI that" to lock you into old ecosystems, given their short remaining life-spans (many of them).

The big consulting firms have to still sell services so of course you need the 37-step plan over the next 2 years to “properly implement the 15-point AI solution”

But it doesn’t mean you have to surf the hype wave.

You won’t be able to keep up. Only lose focus and become a deer in headlights. If you haven't already.

The reality is your ROI success and ROCE improvement will ONLY materialize following a 1st principles approach to your AI for SCM implementation.

No short cuts.

That’s why despite the hype, swirl and buzz. the BLOCKER remains, a shortage of REAL AI for SCM implementation skill. Can’t out market this reality. As well as limited exec and c-suite understanding of how and what AI really adds value in the organization.

Unfortunately, the noise and hype will continue, as it has done with other technologies in the past.

Despite the noise though, the other (quiet) reality is that there absolutely are a few and growing examples of companies proceeding on the correct path and seeing ROCE improvement results (keep the DMs coming for real examples).

Most recent is a North American omni-channel brand with a 300 – 350 annual net margin basis point improvement on one initiative. By focusing on the areas we call out below.

Your best bet since we can’t bury our head in the sand?

Keep focused on the 1st principles approach.

Establish that cross-functional Tiger Team to identify 2-3 customer-impacting, COGS or Full Price Sale / Extra Sale impacting initiatives to get going.

Why focus on the 50% or Full Price / Extra Sale area?

Leverage.

You need that high impact leverage to still generate +ve ROI after the bumpy ex*****on rollout reality. It WILL be as the tech is just too new.

More importantly, work on something that your competitors probably aren’t doing yet. Or doing well.

So you remain competitive and grab market share now.

Unfortunately, it will be bumpy for the next 2-3 quarters, but burying our heads in the sand is absolutely a non-starter option. So is “pilot posturing”

Stay sane!

AI for SCM smartly! Let’s go!!!

The Fifth Rule of AI for SCM: Code never outruns culture. Forget laptop magic demo dazzle!Code may wins demos....Those s...
08/07/2026

The Fifth Rule of AI for SCM: Code never outruns culture. Forget laptop magic demo dazzle!

Code may wins demos....Those sparkline charts always hit.

But organisation culture is what wins improving ROCE with your AI for SCM implementations. That's the reality after the demo applause.

The ROCE test isn’t frontier model use and slick visuals.

It is sales protected, expedites avoided, inventory days reduced and capital released. A clever model inside an unchanged organization automates yesterday’s dysfunction.

Culture is not AI’s “soft side.”

It is the production environment hurdle that has to be successfully navigated as part of your AI for SCM implementation.

Ignore or underestimate it at your peril.

AI for SCM smartly! Let’s go!!!

Keep the DMs coming for all things AI for SCM related.

Happy Friday Friends! Have a great weekend!!!

AI for SCM / Logistics Trend Report - Week Ending Sat Aug 1st 2026. All news events in the comments. FOLLOW FOR WEEKLY A...
08/02/2026

AI for SCM / Logistics Trend Report - Week Ending Sat Aug 1st 2026. All news events in the comments. FOLLOW FOR WEEKLY AI for SCM UPDATES

Our AI for SCM take on this week's news?

-----> WHAT THIS MEANS?

- EX*****ON IS BEATING CONVERSATION: More AI -> Physical and transactional workflow deployments this week.

- RAAS DEPLOYMENT ECONOMICS IS CHANGING: Robotics-as-a-service entry barrier costss declining. Implementations moving forward.

-----> SIGNALS TO WATCH?

- CLEAR EMERGING LINK, AI -> INVENTORY MANAGEMENT: See example case studies

- INCREASING WRITE-BACK AGENT AUTHORITY. Deriving more potential autonomous ex*****on in ERP, WMS, TMS systems.

----->BOTTOM LINE?

- PUT UP OR ELSE: Keep challenging vendors to show ROCE benefits in addition to HITL design, auditable decisioning and tested exit paths

FOLLOW FOR WEEKLY UPDATES



08/01/2026

Sales Grew But Profit didn’t. Here’s Where Margin Loss Was Hiding

A Shopify omnichannel brand was scaling revenue, but operational complexity was consuming the profits.

We did not begin with an AI tool.

We aligned the people, redesigned the process and then implemented an AI-supported S&OP/S&OE decision framework.

Result: 370 basis points of improvement in annualized net margin.

People first. Process second. AI where it improves the economics.

MESSAGE “MARGIN” for the case breakdown.

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