Global enterprises face unprecedented disruption from trade wars, geopolitical conflicts, and extreme weather while being pressured to increase productivity, efficiency, and speed. The Predictive Enterprise shows how AI and predictive technologies are transforming supply chains to deliver exponential gains. Drawing from extensive experience pioneering AI applications in supply chain and procurement, author Edmund Zagorin reveals how major companies are leveraging these technologies to unlock astonishing value creation. Through interviews with Global 2000 executives, The Predictive Enterprise explores the impact of AI-driven operating models on lowering cost structures and increasing the speed and scale of supply chain management and procurement teams. The book also examines how enterprises are rightsizing, rightshoring, and righttooling their supply chains, moving from labor arbitrage to AI as a way to rethink the geography of manufacturing. It reveals why faster-than-human speed is essential to meet customers' demands and win competitive advantage as the job of supply chain teams becomes fractally more complex. The book addresses critical topics including third-party AI risks, AI governance best practices, and the potential for large enterprises to outsource AI risk to their suppliers in areas ranging from employee health benefits to leasing office space. It provides practical guidance on identifying high-impact AI use cases in procurement and supply chain, developing test-and-learn strategies to move from pilots to enterprise deployments, and how to pick winners from an often overwhelming sea of potential providers.

Len DeCandia, former CPO of Johnson & Johnson and forty-year veteran supply chain and procurement executive also shares his playbook for the first 100 days of AI transformation, giving readers the knowledge and tools to navigate their own AI journeys successfully. The Predictive Enterprise is essential reading for executives, supply chain professionals, and any leader seeking to capitalize on AI technologies that are reshaping global business. As supply chains grapple with an increasingly volatile world, this book provides the strategic framework needed to transform challenges into opportunities, headwinds into tailwinds, and risks into competitive advantages.