Agentic AI and Supply Chain Resilience, with e2open's Pawan Joshi, Northeastern's Nada Sanders and Andre Simha (ex-MSC)

Disruption is now the baseline for global trade, not the exception. This episode looks at what real resilience takes on the ground, how technology fits in as decision infrastructure, and covers agentic AI, including who's accountable when it gets the call wrong. Mike King speaks with three guests who bring experience and insight from different perspectives across the industry.

Guests
Pawan Joshi is Chief Strategy Officer at e2open, which became part of the $2 billion WiseTech Global group last year, after more than two decades building the company's supply chain platform.
Nada Sanders is Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business, ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford, and author of The Humachine.
Andre Simha spent nearly 39 years at MSC, the world's largest shipping line, the last five and a half as its digital transformation chief, and chaired the Digital Container Shipping Association for seven years.

0:00 Why Disruption Is Now the Baseline for Trade
2:02 Meet the Panel
4:35 Firefighting vs Preventing Supply Chain Risk
7:05 Planning for a Range of Futures, Not One Plan
9:20 Inside the Ocean Shipping Index
11:15 The COVID Lead Time Failure
14:05 Supply Chain Visibility vs Early Warning
17:00 Three Practices for Earlier Risk Detection
19:05 The Human Machine and the Unilever Example
23:30 AI Vendor Promises and Where the Human Role Shifts
28:35 Supply Chains Built for a 50 to 70 Year Old World
32:10 The Cold Chain Example and Closing the Loop
36:50 Why e2open and CargoWise Came Together
44:30 Trust, Not Standards, Is the Real Barrier
47:10 Digital Supply Chain Standards and the Adoption Problem
52:00 Agentic AI vs the Blockchain Evangelists
56:00 Agentic AI and the Football Match Maturity Question
62:00 Who's Accountable When Agentic AI Gets It Wrong
69:00 What's Not Being Taken Seriously
73:10 Closing Predictions, Reasons for Optimism

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